Westmorland and Lonsdale (UK Parliament constituency)

Westmorland and Lonsdale
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Westmorland and Lonsdale in Cumbria.
Location of Cumbria within England.
County	Cumbria
Electorate	66,609 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1983
Member of parliament	Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)
Number of members	One
Created from	Morecambe and Lonsdale and Westmorland
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	North West England

Coordinates: 54°18′43″N 2°52′48″W / 54.312°N 2.880°W / 54.312; -2.880

Westmorland and Lonsdale is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Tim Farron, the leader of the Liberal Democrats.

The constituency is based on the South Lakeland district of Cumbria. Important towns by size in the constituency include Kendal, Windermere and Kirkby Lonsdale. It is named for the historic county of Westmorland and the Lancashire Hundred of Lonsdale. (The main part of that hundred is still part of Lancashire. However, Westmorland and Lonsdale contains not only the old Westmorland part of geographic Lonsdale, Kirkby Lonsdale, but also the detached part of the old Lancashire administrative hundred of Lonsdale in the Lake District, made up of old Furness and Cartmel, both of which are not geographically in the dale of the River Lune, or "Lonsdale".)