| Morley and Outwood | |
|---|---|
| Formercounty constituency for theHouse of Commons | |
 2010–2024 boundary of Morley and Outwood in West Yorkshire | |
 Location of West Yorkshire within England | |
| County | West Yorkshire |
| Electorate | 78,803 (December 2019)[1] |
| 2010–2024 | |
| Seats | One |
| Created from | |
| Replaced by | Leeds South West and Morley |
Morley and Outwood was aconstituency[n 1] inWest Yorkshire represented in theHouse of Commons of theUK Parliament.[n 2]
Further to the completion of the2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was abolished. Subject to boundary changes - losing theCity of Wakefield wards, incorporating the district ofOutwood and gaining theCity of Leeds ward ofFarnley andWortley - it was reformed asLeeds South West and Morley and first contested at the2024 general election.[2]
The Morley and Outwood constituency wasfirst contested in 2010. It consisted of the town ofMorley, in theCity of Leeds metropolitan district, and aroundOutwood in theCity of Wakefield district. It was largely a successor to the previousMorley and Rothwell seat, which existed from 1997 until 2010;Rothwell was transferred to a newElmet and Rothwell seat, while Outwood was previously part of the abolishedNormanton constituency. At the same time, the Leeds suburb ofMiddleton was transferred toLeeds Central. The remainder of the former Normanton constituency was divided between theNormanton, Pontefract and Castleford constituency and theWakefield constituency.
At the2010 general election, Morley and Outwood was won byEd Balls of theLabour Party, who had been MP for Normanton since 2005, and served as Labour'sShadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2011 to 2015. Balls narrowly lost the seat at the2015 general election to the Conservative Party candidate Andrea Jenkyns which was described byLarry Elliott ofThe Guardian as a "Portillo moment".[3] The 2015 general election result gave the Conservatives that year their sixth-most marginal majority of their 331 seats won, by percentage of majority.[4] Third parties had not polled strongly in the seat to date — the combined votes of the two largest UK parties' candidates exceeded 72.9% of the total in 2010 and 2015, 97.4% in 2017, and 91.7% in 2019.
Parliament approved the recommendation of theBoundary Commission'sFifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies to create this new ("cross-border") constituency as a consequence ofWest Yorkshire losing one parliamentary seat following more rapid population increase in other regions.[5]
The constituency contained the following electoral wards:
| Election | Member[7] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Created fromMorley and Rothwell andNormanton | |||
| 2010 | Ed Balls | Labour Co-op[8] | |
| 2015 | Andrea Jenkyns | Conservative | |
| 2024 | Constituency abolished | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Co-op | Ed Balls | 18,365 | 37.6 | −8.4 | |
| Conservative | Antony Calvert | 17,264 | 35.3 | +10.3 | |
| Liberal Democrats | James Monaghan | 8,186 | 16.8 | +6.7 | |
| BNP | Chris Beverley | 3,535 | 7.2 | −0.6 | |
| UKIP | David Daniel | 1,505 | 3.1 | New | |
| Majority | 1,101 | 2.3 | −18.7 | ||
| Turnout | 48,855 | 65.8 | |||
| Labour Co-opwin (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Andrea Jenkyns | 18,776 | 38.9 | +3.6 | |
| Labour Co-op | Ed Balls | 18,354 | 38.0 | +0.4 | |
| UKIP | David Dews | 7,951 | 16.5 | +13.4 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Rebecca Taylor | 1,426 | 3.0 | −13.8 | |
| Green | Martin Hemingway | 1,264 | 2.6 | New | |
| Yorkshire First | Arnie Craven | 479 | 1.0 | New | |
| Majority | 422 | 0.9 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 48,250 | 63.3 | −2.5 | ||
| Conservativegain fromLabour Co-op | Swing | +1.6 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Andrea Jenkyns | 26,550 | 50.7 | +11.8 | |
| Labour Co-op | Neil Dawson | 24,446 | 46.7 | +8.7 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Craig Dobson | 1,361 | 2.6 | −0.4 | |
| Majority | 2,104 | 4.0 | +3.1 | ||
| Turnout | 52,357 | 68.0 | +4.7 | ||
| Conservativehold | Swing | +1.6 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Andrea Jenkyns | 29,424 | 56.7 | +6.0 | |
| Labour | Deanne Ferguson | 18,157 | 35.0 | −11.7 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Craig Dobson | 2,285 | 4.4 | +1.8 | |
| Green | Chris Bell | 1,107 | 2.1 | New | |
| Yorkshire | Dan Woodlock | 957 | 1.8 | New | |
| Majority | 11,267 | 21.7 | +17.7 | ||
| Turnout | 51,930 | 65.9 | −2.1 | ||
| Conservativehold | Swing | +8.8 | |||
