Blackpool North and Fleetwood (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 53°51′47″N 2°54′50″W / 53.863°N 2.914°W / 53.863; -2.914

Blackpool North and Fleetwood
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Blackpool North and Fleetwood in Lancashire for the 2005 general election.
Location of Lancashire within England.
County	Lancashire
1997–2010
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Blackpool North and Cleveleys, Lancaster and Fleetwood
Created from	Wyre, Blackpool North

Blackpool North and Fleetwood was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1997 to 2010, it elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Boundaries

The Borough of Blackpool wards of Anchorsholme, Bispham, Claremont, Greenlands, Ingthorpe, Norbreck, and Warbreck, and the Borough of Wyre wards of Bailey, Bourne, Cleveleys Park, Jubilee, Mount, Park, Pharos, Rossall, Victoria, and Warren.

The so-called "Golden Mile" of Blackpool and the fishing port of Fleetwood were paired in this seat. Those against the move at the time tried to argue that Fleetwood was a genteel place that had little, if anything, in common with its noisy neighbour to the south; then, as now, the Boundary Commission disagreed with the idea that Blackpool was a "den of vice", as one local Fleetwood newspaper claimed.

This seat was abolished for the 2010 general election, when Fleetwood was linked with Lancaster to create a new seat of Lancaster and Fleetwood. Meanwhile, the town of Thornton Cleveleys was split to create Blackpool North and Cleveleys.

Blackpool is a Unitary Authority but does not have enough electors to create two valid constituencies on its own without using electoral wards from Lancashire.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member^[1]	Party
	1997	Joan Humble	Labour
	2010	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Blackpool North and Fleetwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Joan Humble	20,620	47.6	-3.2
	Conservative	Gavin Williamson	15,558	35.9	-1.4
	Liberal Democrat	Steven Bate	5,533	12.8	+3.1
	UKIP	Roy Hopwood	1,579	3.6	+1.4
Majority			5,062	11.7	-1.8
Turnout			43,290	57.7	+0.5
	Labour hold		Swing	-0.9

General Election 2001: Blackpool North & Fleetwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Joan Humble	21,610	50.8	-1.4
	Conservative	Alan Vincent	15,889	37.3	+1.8
	Liberal Democrat	Steven Bate	4,132	9.7	+1.1
	UKIP	Colin Porter	950	2.2	N/A
Majority			5,721	13.5	-3.2
Turnout			42,581	57.2	-14.4
	Labour hold		Swing	-1.6

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Blackpool North and Fleetwood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Joan Humble	28,051	52.1
	Conservative	Harold Elletson	19,105	35.5
	Liberal Democrat	Beverley Hill	4,600	8.6
	Referendum	Roy Hopwood	1,704	3.2
	BNP	Jon Ellis	288	0.5
Majority			8,946	16.7
Turnout			53,748	71.7
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Notes and references

↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 2)

Constituencies in North West England (75)

Labour (51)	Ashton-under-Lyne Barrow and Furness Birkenhead Blackburn Blackley and Broughton Blackpool South Bolton North East Bolton South East Bootle Burnley Bury South Chorley City of Chester Copeland Denton and Reddish Ellesmere Port and Neston Garston and Halewood Halton Heywood and Middleton Hyndburn Knowsley Lancaster and Fleetwood Leigh Liverpool Riverside Liverpool Walton Liverpool Wavertree Liverpool West Derby Makerfield Manchester Central Manchester Gorton Manchester Withington Oldham East and Saddleworth Oldham West and Royton Preston Rochdale St Helens North St Helens South and Whiston Salford and Eccles Sefton Central Stalybridge and Hyde Stockport Stretford and Urmston Wallasey Warrington North West Lancashire Wigan Wirral South Wirral West Workington Worsley and Eccles South Wythenshawe and Sale East

Conservative (22)	Altrincham and Sale West Blackpool North and Cleveleys Bolton West Bury North Carlisle Cheadle Congleton Crewe and Nantwich Eddisbury Fylde Hazel Grove Macclesfield Morecambe and Lunesdale Pendle Penrith and The Border Ribble Valley Rossendale and Darwen South Ribble Tatton Warrington South Weaver Vale Wyre and Preston North

Liberal Democrats (2)	Southport Westmorland and Lonsdale

North West England European constituency: Conservative (2) Labour (3) UKIP (3)

Culture and infrastructure of Blackpool

Transport

Blackpool Airport Blackpool and Fleetwood Tramroad Blackpool Branch Lines Blackpool Electric Tramway Company Blackpool to Liverpool Line Blackpool tramway Blackpool Transport British NorthWest Airlines English Electric Balloon tram Flexity 2 Flykeen Airways List of tram stops Preston and Wyre Joint Railway

Railway stations	Blackpool North Blackpool Pleasure Beach Blackpool South Layton

Disused stations	Blackpool Central South Shore

Sport

History

Shipwrecks
- Abana
- HMS Foudroyant
- Riverdance
- Sirene

Media

Politics

Council Council elections 2000 03 07 11 15

Constituencies: Blackpool North By-election: 1962 Blackpool North and Cleveleys Blackpool North and Fleetwood Blackpool South North Lancashire By-elections: 1874 78 85

Health

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