Lancaster and Fleetwood is a new constituency with boundaries stretching from Wray to Fleetwood, including all of Lancaster south of the River Lune. Due to boundary changes there will be no ‘sitting’ MP at the next election. North Lancashire is the strongest local Green Party in the North West and this year has seen new Green groups set up in Over Wyre and Fleetwood.

In the Lancashire County elections last May, we gained the second highest number of votes cast across the constituency (22%), beating both Labour and the Lib Dems. The number of district councillors in the constituency is even more evenly balanced. Of 39 councillors there are 12 Greens, 12 Tories, 11 Labour and 4 Lib Dems. Now that the Green Party has such widespread support locally, we can make a serious challenge for a seat at Westminster.  Following their review of parliamentary representation in Lancashire, the Boundary Commission for England has created the new constituency of Lancaster & Fleetwood, combining parts of the previous Blackpool North and Lancaster & Wyre Constituencies.

The electoral wards which are used to create the new seat come from the City of Lancaster and the borough of Wyre. From Lancaster: Bulk, Castle, Duke’s, Ellel, John O’Gaunt, Lower Lune Valley, Scotforth East, Scotforth West and University wards .From Wyre: Mount Part, Pharos, Pilling, Preesall, Rossall, Warren and Wyresdale wards.

Because it is a completely new parlimentary seat it has no sitting MP.  (The area is currently split between Joan Humble MP & Ben Wallace MP, neither of whom are contesting the new seat.) This makes the result at the next election hard to predict.

At the local election in May 2007 the number of councillors returned was evenly split between the Green Party, Labour & Conservative.

This uncertainty over the result makes Lancaster & Fleetwood the North West seat most likely to see a strong Green vote and has consequently been chosen by the NW Green Party as its regional target seat.