Morley and Outwood (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 53°44′56″N 1°36′07″W / 53.749°N 1.602°W / 53.749; -1.602

Morley and Outwood
County constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Morley and Outwood in West Yorkshire.
Location of West Yorkshire within England.
County	West Yorkshire
Electorate	75,163 (December 2010)[1]
Current constituency
Created	2010 (2010)
Member of Parliament	Ed Balls (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Morley and Rothwell, Normanton
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	Yorkshire and the Humber

Morley and Outwood is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

This is the successor seat to Morley and Rothwell, and was first contested in 2010. Rothwell is in a newly formed constituency of Elmet and Rothwell, and the suburb of Middleton has been transferred to Leeds Central. Outwood was previously in the abolished seat of Normanton, the remainder of which is now part of Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford and part of Wakefield.

Boundaries

Following their review of parliamentary representation in West Yorkshire, the Boundary Commission for England created this new cross-border constituency as a consequence of the county losing one parliamentary seat following population decline.

It is made up of three Leeds City Council wards:

• Ardsley (see East Ardsley and West Ardsley) and Robin Hood
• Morley North
• Morley South

and two Wakefield City Council wards:

• Stanley and Outwood East
• Wrenthorpe and Outwood West.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member [2]	Party
	2010	Ed Balls	Labour Co-op[3]

Election Results

Election	Political result		Candidate		Party	Votes	%	±%
General Election 2010 Electorate: 75,163 Turnout: 48,856 (65.8%) +7.4		Labour Co-op hold Majority: 1,101 (2.3%) -18.7 Swing: -9.3% from Labour Co-op to Con		Ed Balls	Labour Co-op	18,365	37.6	-8.4
				Antony Calvert	Conservative	17,264	35.3	+10.3
				James Monaghan	Liberal Democrat	8,286	16.8	+6.7
				Chris Beverley	BNP	3,535	7.2	+1.9
				David Daniel	UKIP	1,505	3.1	N/A

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Yorkshire

Notes and references

1. ^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. http://www.boundarycommissionforengland.org.uk/electoral-figures/electoral-figures.htm. Retrieved 13 March 2011. 
2. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 3)
3. ^ "Ed Balls (MP for Morley & Outwood)". The co-operative party. http://party.coop/co_operative.php?bck=1&article_id=58. Retrieved 6 July 2010.  Note that other sources and the "Statement of persons nominated" refer to Balls as "Labour".