Westmorland and Lonsdale (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1983 onwards / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Westmorland and Lonsdale is a constituency[n 1] in the south of Cumbria, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Tim Farron, the former leader of the Liberal Democrats (2015–2017).
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Westmorland and Lonsdale | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Cumbria |
Electorate | 66,609 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Grange-over-Sands, Kendal, Windermere |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Tim Farron (Liberal Democrats) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Morecambe and Lonsdale and Westmorland |
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Since 2017 Westmorland and Lonsdale has been the only Liberal Democrat seat in the whole of Northern England. It is also the Liberal Democrats' longest continuously held seat in England, as the only seat where they have won every election since 2015.