Morecambe & Lunesdale.

Morecambe and Lunesdale is a North West seat anchored on the Morecambe Bay coast, where a single sizeable town gives way to a string of smaller settlements and a rural hinterland in the Lune valley. Morecambe itself, with about 30,000 residents, accounts for roughly a third of the seat, followed by Heysham at some 15,000 and then a scatter of smaller places -- Bolton-le-Sands, Carnforth, Caton and Arnside among them. The population skews older, with a median age of 48, and is overwhelmingly White; under a third hold a degree. Local services are split across two authorities, the Lancaster district council, which holds the great bulk of the wards, and Westmorland and Furness, a unitary, at the seat's northern edge.

That two-council geography shapes a mixed local picture. Across the most recent ward contests, Labour has taken the largest share of seats, with the Liberal Democrats a clear second and the Conservatives, Greens and Morecambe Bay Independents holding pockets, so no single party dominates the ground. Labour appears strongest in the Heysham and Carnforth wards, while the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives hold ground in the valley and the outer villages. At the 2024 general election Labour won the seat on roughly 41 per cent, ahead of the Conservatives on about 29 -- a marked reversal from 2019, when the Conservatives took it comfortably. The sitting MP, Lizzi Collinge, was returned at that contest.

On the figures available the seat looks newly competitive rather than settled, won on a plurality after a single-term swing and overlaid by a fragmented council map. Recent local coverage has had a largely civic, developmental character -- regeneration, council administration and routine service matters -- rather than anything turbulent. Anti-social behaviour stands out in the crime record, running around two-fifths above the comparable constituency average. The combination leaves Morecambe and Lunesdale contested terrain, recently changed and not obviously consolidated for any party.