Some are candidates are still to be decided before the June 7 deadline
In little more than a month, voters in every single one of Lancashire's 15 constituencies will be heading to the polls.
The deal will now be in the hands of the next Government. And campaigning is well underway across Lancashire.Below are details on how the contests are shaping up in each of Lancashire’s 15 constituencies ahead of the big vote. Some are incomplete as the deadline for nominations is June 7. References to incumbent or current MPs refer to the holders of the seat up until May 30 when Parliament will be dissolved and there will be no MPs.
She will be challenged this time by the Labour leader of South Ribble Borough Council, Paul Foster, who has run the authority for the past five years. The seat is 95th on Labour’s target list nationally, as determined by the degree of swing needed towards the party to win it – 8.65 percent. Liberal Democrat borough councillor Ange Turner is amongst the other candidates who will be vying for votes.
At the 2019 poll, he snapped up a majority of 17,362 votes and the largest vote share in Lancashire at 67.3 percent, ahead of a Green Party and an independent candidate who challenged him for his seat. Sir Lindsay will again face a contest from the Greens, the only party to have announced a candidate in Chorley so far.The whole of the Eccleston, Heskin and Charnock Richard ward will move to within the South Ribble seat – a total of almost 6,000 voters.
It was won by the long-serving MP Rosie Cooper back in 2019, but she stepped down in 2023 to move into an NHS role and a by-election returned Labour’s Ashley Dalton as the new MP. The latter’s majority – of 8,326 votes – was almost identical to that of Ms. Copper, in spite of the by-election attracting approximately half the turnout of the 2019 poll.
The Skerton East and Skerton West wards will move into the new Lancaster and Wyre constituency from their present home in Morecambe and Lunesdale.
The current Labour holder of the Lancaster and Fleetwood constituency is standing in the new Lancaster and Wyre seat, while the party will field the deputy opposition group leader of Lancashire County Council, Lorraine Beavers, in Blackpool North and Fleetwood. The Conservatives were within just over 100 votes of coming third, behind Reform UK, in the by-election. Both parties are yet to confirm whether they are fielding the same or different candidates for the general election.The Claremont, Clayton, Park and Warbreck wards join the seat from the soon-to-be-defunct neighbouring Blackpool North and Cleveleys constituency.
The incumbent Conservative MP, Antony Higginbotham, is defending the slimmest majority in Lancashire – 1,352 votes – and the seat is the top Labour target by the scale of the swing needed for the party to retake it, at just 0.13 percent.The Brierfield East & Clover Hill and Brierfield West & Reedley wards join the Burnley seat from the current Pendle constituency.Oliver Ryan – Labour and Co-operative PartyThe seat was taken by the Tories in 2019 after 27 of it being held by Labour.
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