Lizzi Collinge

Lizzi Collinge
MP
Lizzi Collinge MP
	Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament; for Morecambe and Lunesdale
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 4 July 2024
Preceded by	David Morris
Majority	5,815 (12.1%)
Personal details
Political party	Labour
Website	www.lizzicollinge.com

Elizabeth Rachel Collinge,^[1] known as Lizzi Collinge, is a British Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament for Morecambe and Lunesdale since 2024.^[2]

Early life and education

Collinge was born in Lancashire, and moved to rural Cumbria as a child. She moved to the Morecambe and Lunesdale area in 2005.^[3] She has a first class honours BA in politics and Spanish from the University of Central Lancashire (2012), after studying as a mature student.^[3]^[4]

Political career

Collinge has been a member of Lancashire County Council, representing Lancaster East for Labour, since 2016.^[5]

Parliamentary career

Collinge first stood for election in Morecambe and Lunesdale in the 2019 general election, where she came in second place with 39% of the vote behind David Morris, the incumbent Conservative MP, with 53%.^[6]

Collinge was selected in September 2023 as the Labour candidate for Morecambe and Lunesdale for the next general election.^[7] 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 turnout of 63%.^[2]

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).^[8]

The notional 2019 result for the area was Conservative.^[9]

Collinge was sworn in as an MP on 10 July 2024.^[1] 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 50:50 Parliament 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".^[10]