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Burnley | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Burnley in Lancashire | |
Location of Lancashire within England | |
County | Lancashire |
Major settlements | Burnley |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1868 |
Member of Parliament | Gordon Birtwistle (Liberal Democrats) |
Burnley is a borough constituency centred on the town of Burnley in Lancashire, which is 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.
History
The seat was created in 1868. Since the Second World War, it was generally a safe Labour seat, but the Conservative Party came within 770 votes of taking the seat in 1983, and it swung heavily to the Liberal Democrats in 2005, and following controversy regarding outgoing MP Kitty Ussher's personal expenses, they gained the seat in 2010.
Boundary review
The review of parliamentary representation in Lancashire by the Boundary Commission for England in the 2000s proposed no change to the boundaries of the Burnley seat. The seat remains coterminous with the boundaries of the borough of Burnley.
Members of Parliament
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Gordon Birtwistle | 14,932 | 35.7 | +12.0 | |
Labour | Julie Cooper | 13,114 | 31.3 | −7.2 | |
Conservative | Richard Ali | 6,950 | 16.6 | +5.8 | |
BNP | Sharon Wilkinson | 3,747 | 9.0 | −1.3 | |
Independent | Andrew Brown | 1,876 | 4.5 | N/A | |
UKIP | John Wignall | 929 | 2.2 | +1.2 | |
Independent | Andrew Hennessey | 287 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,818 | 4.3 | |||
Turnout | 41,845 | 62.8 | |||
Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | Swing | +9.6 |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Kitty Ussher | 14,999 | 38.5 | −10.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Gordon Birtwistle | 9,221 | 23.7 | +7.5 | |
Burnley First Independent | Harry Brooks | 5,786 | 14.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | Yousuf Miah | 4,206 | 10.8 | −10.1 | |
BNP | Len Starr | 4,003 | 10.3 | −1.0 | |
Independent | Jeff Slater | 392 | 1.0 | N/A | |
UKIP | Robert McDowell | 376 | 1.0 | −1.3 | |
Majority | 5,778 | 14.8 | |||
Turnout | 38,983 | 59.2 | +3.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -9.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Peter Pike | 18,195 | 49.3 | −8.6 | |
Conservative | Robert Frost | 7,697 | 20.9 | +0.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul Wright | 5,975 | 16.2 | −1.2 | |
BNP | Steve Smith | 4,151 | 11.3 | N/A | |
UKIP | Richard Buttrey | 866 | 2.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,498 | 28.4 | |||
Turnout | 36,884 | 55.7 | −11.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -4.6 |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Peter Pike | 26,210 | 57.9 | +4.9 | |
Conservative | Bill Wiggin | 9,148 | 20.2 | −10.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Gordon Birtwistle | 7,877 | 17.4 | +1.0 | |
Referendum | Richard Oakley | 2,010 | 4.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 17,062 | ||||
Turnout | 66.9 | −7.5 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Peter Pike | 27,184 | 53.0 | ||
Conservative | Brenda Binge | 15,693 | 30.6 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Gordon Birtwistle | 8,414 | 16.4 | ||
Majority | 11,491 | ||||
Turnout | 74.4 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Daniel Jones | 20,172 | 50.8 | ||
Conservative | Ann Widdecombe | 14,062 | 35.4 | ||
Liberal | M Steed | 5,091 | 12.8 | ||
Independent Democrat | F Tyrrall | 352 | 0.9 |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Gerald Archibald Arbuthnot | 5,776 | |||
Lib-Lab | Frederick Maddison | 5,681 | |||
Social Democratic Federation | Henry Hyndman | 4,948 | |||
Majority | 95 | ||||
Turnout | 16,405 | ||||
Conservative gain from Lib-Lab | Swing |
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lib-Lab | Frederick Maddison | 5,288 | |||
Conservative | Gerald Archibald Arbuthnot | 4,964 | |||
Social Democratic Federation | Henry Hyndman | 4,932 | |||
Majority | 324 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Lib-Lab gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Mitchell | 6,678 | |||
Liberal | Philip Stanhope | 6,173 | |||
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Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing |
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Philip Stanhope | 5,454 | |||
Conservative | W. A. Lindsay | 5,133 | |||
Social Democratic Federation | Henry Hyndman | 1,498 | |||
Majority | 321 | ||||
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Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Philip Stanhope | 6,199 | |||
Conservative | W. A. Lindsay | 5,506 | |||
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Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Jabez Spencer Balfour | 6,450 | |||
Liberal Unionist | Edwin Lawrence | 5,035 | |||
Majority | 1,415 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist | Swing |
Elections in the 1880s
At the Burnley by-election, 1889, Jabez Spencer Balfour was elected unopposed.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | John Slagg | 5,021 | |||
Conservative | J. O. S. Thursby | 4,481 | |||
Majority | 540 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Unionist | Peter Rylands | 4,209 | |||
Liberal | J. Greenwood | 5,035 | |||
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Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Peter Rylands | 4,866 | |||
Conservative | H. H. Wainwright | 5,035 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
References
- "VOTE 2001 | RESULTS & CONSTITUENCIES | Burnley". BBC News. Retrieved 2010-06-08.
- Boundary Commission for England Fifth Periodical Report. Retrieved 31 October 2007.
- "Election 2010 | Constituency | Burnley". BBC News. Retrieved 2010-06-08.
- "Burnley". ukpollingreport.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-06-08.
- ^ Burnley | Aristotle, guardian.co.uk
- ^ The Constitutional Year Book, National Unionist Association of Conservative and Liberal Unionist Organizations (1916)