Everything about Barrow And Furness Uk Parliament Constituency totally explained
Barrow and Furness (previously
Barrow-in-Furness) is a
constituency represented in the
House of Commons of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one
Member of Parliament (MP) by the
first past the post system of election.
Boundaries
This constituency contains the southern half of the
Furness peninsula, South
Cumbria. This is in the
north-west of
England.
Boundary review
Following their review of parliamentary representation in Cumbria, the
Boundary Commission for England has created a modified Barrow and Furness constituency, which takes the seat further north than currently into a lobster-claw shape taking Lake District areas to the north.
The newly shaped seat will be fought at the UK general election of 2009 or 2010, and is formed from the following electoral wards:
- From South Lakeland - Broughton, Crake Valley, Low Furness & Swarthmoor, Ulverston Central, Ulverston East, Ulverston North, Ulverston South, Ulverston Town and Ulverston West
- The entire district of Barrow-in-Furness
History
The seat of Barrow & Furness, tucked away in the west of
Cumbria beyond the
Lake District, is the location for one of
Britain's most important industrial centres. The largest town in the
constituency,
Barrow-in-Furness, grew on the back of the
ship building industry and is now the site of the
BAE Systems nuclear submarine and ship building operation. This reliance on a single industry associated with controversial defence policies has, in the past, proved politically volatile in a constituency the Labour Party would consider its own backyard. Labour
Cabinet member
Albert Booth represented Barrow from 1966 but suffered a shock defeat in 1983. Many put this down to widespread fears of job losses because the Labour Party was then signed up to doing away with all its
nuclear capabilities including the
submarines. The
Conservative Party Member of Parliament through the eighties was a Manchester lawyer,
Cecil Franks.
As Labour moved back towards the retention of Britain's nuclear capability and following massive job losses in the town's ship building industry, Labour's fortunes revived in Barrow.
John Hutton took the seat back for Labour in 1992 and has retained it ever since. In 2001 he'd the support of more than half of all those who voted. There are other industries in the constituency including engineering and chemicals and more than a quarter of all jobs are in
manufacturing. Surrounding this industrial mass is some wild and beautiful countryside, a sweeping mix of
moors,
hills,
peaks and
coast, including the towns of
Ulverston and
Dalton-in-Furness.
Members of Parliament
The current
MP is
John Hutton of the
Labour Party, a former lecturer. He took the seat from
Cecil Franks of the
Conservative Party in the
1992 general election. Since
July 27,
2007 he's been the
Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. He has also held the
cabinet posts of
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Previous MPs were:
Election results
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