Burnley (UK Parliament constituency)

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Burnley
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Burnley in Lancashire
Location of Lancashire within England
County	Lancashire
Electorate	67,003 (December 2010)
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

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1868	Richard Shaw	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1876 by-election	Peter Rylands	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" \|	1886	Peter Rylands	Liberal Unionist
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1887 by-election	John Slagg	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1889 by-election	Jabez Spencer Balfour	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1893 by-election	Hon. Philip Stanhope	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1900	William Mitchell	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Lib-Lab/meta/color" \|	1906	Frederick Maddison	Lib-Lab
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Jan. 1910	Gerald Archibald Arbuthnot	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	Dec. 1910	Philip Morrell	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1918	Dan Irving	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1924 by-election	Arthur Henderson	Labour
style="background-color: Template:National Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1931	Gordon Campbell, VC	National Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1935	Wilfrid Burke	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1959	Dan Jones	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1983	Peter Pike	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	2005	Kitty Ussher	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color" \|	2010	Gordon Birtwistle	Liberal Democrats

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2010: Burnley
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

General Election 2005: Burnley
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

General Election 2001: Burnley
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

General Election 1997: Burnley
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

General Election 1992: Burnley
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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General Election 1979: Burnley
	Candidate	Votes	%
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

General Election January 1910: Burnley
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

General Election 1906: Burnley
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

General Election 1900: Burnley
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	William Mitchell	6,678
	Liberal	Philip Stanhope	6,173
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1895: Burnley
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Philip Stanhope	5,454
	Conservative	W. A. Lindsay	5,133
	Social Democratic Federation	Henry Hyndman	1,498
Majority			321
Turnout
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

Burnley by-election, 1893
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Philip Stanhope	6,199
	Conservative	W. A. Lindsay	5,506
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1892: Burnley
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.

Burnley by-election, 1887
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	John Slagg	5,021
	Conservative	J. O. S. Thursby	4,481
Majority			540
Turnout
	Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist		Swing

General Election 1886: Burnley
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal Unionist	Peter Rylands	4,209
	Liberal	J. Greenwood	5,035
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing

General Election 1885: Burnley
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 8 June 2010.
Boundary Commission for England Fifth Periodical Report. Retrieved 31 October 2007.
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 6)
"Election 2010 | Constituency | Burnley". BBC News. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
"Burnley". ukpollingreport.co.uk. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
^ Burnley | Aristotle, guardian.co.uk
^ The Constitutional Year Book, National Unionist Association of Conservative and Liberal Unionist Organizations (1916)

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