Lizzi Collinge | |
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 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of Parliament forMorecambe and Lunesdale | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | David Morris |
| Majority | 5,815 (12.1%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Lancashire, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Residence(s) | Heysham, Lancashire, England |
| Website | www |
Elizabeth Rachel Collinge,[1] known asLizzi Collinge, is a BritishLabour Party politician serving asMember of Parliament forMorecambe and Lunesdale since2024.[2]
Collinge was born inLancashire, and moved to ruralCumbria as a child. She moved to the Morecambe and Lunesdale area in 2005.[3] She has a first class honours BA in politics and Spanish from theUniversity of Central Lancashire (2012), after studying as a mature student.[3][4]
Collinge was a member ofLancashire County Council, representing Lancaster East for Labour, between 2016 and 2025.[5]
Collinge first stood for election inMorecambe and Lunesdale in the2019 general election, where she came in second place with 39% of the vote behindDavid Morris, the incumbent Conservative MP, with 53%.[6]
Collinge was selected in September 2023 as theLabour candidate forMorecambe and Lunesdalefor the next general election.[7] In the2024 general election she was elected asMP for the seat, with 40.8% of the vote and a majority of 5,815 over the second-placed candidate, the Conservative David Morris who had previously represented the seat since2010. There were five candidates, and aturnout of 63%.[2]
The constituency's boundaries had been changed following the2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, and the 2024- constituency was made up of parts of:
Thenotional 2019 result for the area was Conservative.[9]
Collinge wassworn in as an MP on 10 July 2024.[1] She made hermaiden speech on 22 July 2024, paying tribute to the previous MPs for the three seats making up the new constituency (David Morris,Tim Farron andCat Smith), and toGeraldine Smith who had held Morecambe and Lunesdale from 1997 to 2010, and to the50:50 Parliament campaign and theLabour Women's Network for their work to see more women elected. She described the constituency as "definitely the most beautiful constituency in the country".[10]
Collinge is married to Miles, who works full-time in theNHS.[10] They have two children and live inHeysham.[3] She is ahumanist.[10] She was elected chair of theAll Party Parliamentary Humanist Group in 2025.[11] She is the great-great-niece of fell-walker and writerAlfred Wainwright.[12]
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forMorecambe and Lunesdale 2024–present | Incumbent |
