Lizzi Collinge

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Collinge was selected in September 2023 as the Labour candidate for Morecambe and Lunesdale for the next general election. In the 2024 general election she was elected as MP for the seat, with 40.8% of the vote and a majority of 5,815 over the second-placed candidate, the Conservative David Morris who had previously represented the seat since 2010. There were five candidates, and a voter turnout of 63%.

The constituency's boundaries had been changed following the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, and the 2024- constituency was made up of parts of:

• the previous Conservative-held Morecambe and Lunesdale constituency (35.1% by area and 76.3% by population of the new seat);
• the Liberal Democrat-held Westmorland and Lonsdale, which still exists with revised boundaries (46.5% by area and 18.9% by population);
• and the former Labour-held Lancaster and Fleetwood (18.4% by area and 4.8% by population).

Collinge was sworn in as an MP on 10 July 2024. She made her maiden speech on 22 July 2024, paying tribute to the previous MPs for the three seats making up the new constituency (David Morris, Tim Farron and Cat Smith), and to Geraldine Smith who had held Morecambe and Lunesdale from 1997 to 2010, and to the campaign and the Labour Women's Network for their work to see more women elected. She described the constituency as "definitely the most beautiful constituency in the country".