Lancaster and Fleetwood (UK Parliament constituency)

Lancaster and Fleetwood
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Lancaster and Fleetwood in Lancashire for the 2010 general election.
Location of Lancashire within England.
County	Lancashire
Electorate	67,305 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	2010
Member of parliament	Cat Smith (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Blackpool North and Fleetwood Lancaster and Wyre
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	North West England

Lancaster and Fleetwood is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. Created in the most recent fifth periodic review of constituencies by the Boundary Commission for England, it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.

Since the 2015 general election the seat has been held by Cat Smith of the Labour Party. Previously it was represented by Eric Ollerenshaw, a Conservative.

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Lancashire, the Boundary Commission created a new constituency involving Wyre and Preston North, for the 2010 general election, which split the previous linking of Lancaster and Wyre. As a consequence, Lancaster and the coastal town of Fleetwood have been attached for parliamentary purposes. Both the 2010 and 2015 elections were closely fought between the Conservative and Labour candidates, with Labour-inclined areas in both Lancaster and Fleetwood battling with the more Conservative parts of the constituency's large rural hinterland, indicating it to be a marginal seat.

The new seat of Lancaster and Fleetwood was subject to public consultation following the decision to create a new seat in Lancashire in the run-up to the United Kingdom general election, 2010, which caused major consequential changes to the central and southern parts of the county. During the consultation process, the Wyre ward of Cabus was moved from Lancaster and Fleetwood to Wyre and Preston North.