Westmorland and Lonsdale

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Westmorland and Lonsdale is a UK parliamentary constituency in Cumbria, represented in the House of Commons and covering a largely rural area that includes parts of the Lake District.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf UK parliamentary constituency
Westminster constituency
borderingArea Scottish Borders
surface form: Scottish Borders (via Cumbria regionally)
boundaryReviewBody Boundary Commission for England
characteristic largely rural constituency
containsPartOf Lake District
Yorkshire Dales
country United Kingdom
county Cumbria
created 1983
createdFrom Morecambe
surface form: Morecambe and Lonsdale

Westmorland, England
surface form: Westmorland
currentMPParty Liberal Democrats
electoralSystem first-past-the-post
electorateType rural and small-town
elects Member of Parliament
firstElection 1983 United Kingdom general election
hasElection 1983 United Kingdom general election
1987 United Kingdom general election
1992 United Kingdom general election
1997 United Kingdom general election
2001 United Kingdom general election
2005 United Kingdom general election
2010 United Kingdom general election
2015 United Kingdom general election
2017 United Kingdom general election
2019 United Kingdom general election
hasMajorIndustry agriculture
tourism
includesSettlement Ambleside
surface form: Ambleside (in some boundary periods)
includesTown Kendal
Kirkby Lonsdale
Sedbergh
Windermere
legislativeBody British Parliament
surface form: Parliament of the United Kingdom
locatedIn Cumbria
England
MP Tim Farron
MPParty Liberal Democrats
namedAfter Lonsdale (valley of the River Lune)
historic county of Westmorland
numberOfMPsElected 1
partOf North West England
surface form: North West England European Parliament constituency (pre-Brexit, for EU elections)
previousCounty Cumbria
surface form: Cumbria (non-metropolitan county)
region North West England
representedBy Tim Farron
representedIn House of Commons of the United Kingdom
type County constituency

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Ambleside parliamentaryConstituency Westmorland and Lonsdale
Arnside parliamentaryConstituency Westmorland and Lonsdale
Kendal parliamentaryConstituency Westmorland and Lonsdale
Near Sawrey parliamentaryConstituency Westmorland and Lonsdale
Kirkby Lonsdale parliamentaryConstituency Westmorland and Lonsdale
Haverthwaite constituencyWestminster Westmorland and Lonsdale
Workington (UK Parliament constituency) borderingConstituency Westmorland and Lonsdale
this entity surface form: Westmorland and Lonsdale (UK Parliament constituency)