Lizzi Collinge

Collinge was born in Lancashire, and moved to rural Cumbria as a child. She moved to the Morecambe and Lunesdale area in 2005. She has a first class honours BA in politics and Spanish from the University of Central Lancashire (2012), after studying as a mature student.{{cite web |title=Lizzi Collinge |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizzicollinge/ |website=LinkedIn |access-date=7 July 2024}}

Collinge was a member of Lancashire County Council, representing Lancaster East for Labour, between 2016 and 2025.{{cite web |title=Councillor details - County Councillor Lizzi Collinge |url=https://council.lancashire.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=16316 |website=council.lancashire.gov.uk |access-date=2 July 2024 |date=2 July 2024}}

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%.{{cite web |title=Election results for Morecambe and Lunesdale, 12 December 2019 |url=https://committeeadmin.lancaster.gov.uk/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?ID=327&RPID=27768187 |website=committeeadmin.lancaster.gov.uk |access-date=7 July 2024 |date=12 December 2019}}

Collinge was selected in September 2023 as the Labour candidate for Morecambe and Lunesdale

for the next general election.{{cite news |title=Labour candidate selected for new Morecambe and Lunesdale constituency |url=https://www.beyondradio.co.uk/news/local-news/labour-candidate-selected-for-new-morecambe-and-lunesdale-constituency/ |access-date=7 July 2024 |work=Beyond Radio |date=18 September 2023 |language=en}} 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%.

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).{{cite web |title=Morecambe and Lunesdale (31 May 2024 - ) - overlaps |url=https://electionresults.parliament.uk/constituency-areas/1037/overlaps |website=UK Parliament election results |access-date=8 July 2024}}

The notional 2019 result for the area was Conservative.{{cite web |title=Notional election for the constituency of Morecambe and Lunesdale on 12 December 2019. |url=https://electionresults.parliament.uk/elections/2360 |website=UK Parliament election results |access-date=8 July 2024}}

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 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".{{cite news | work=Hansard|publisher=House of Commons|url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2024-07-22/debates/67C8D6FC-BDA4-47FF-BECC-537443D53120/EconomyWelfareAndPublicServices#contribution-8C2832C8-A687-4F3F-9EB8-4735E27831FC | title=Economy, Welfare and Public Services: 8:56pm|date=22 July 2024|access-date=23 July 2024}}

Collinge is married to Miles, who works full-time in the NHS. They have two children and live in Heysham.{{cite web |title=About |url=https://www.lizzicollinge.com/about-2/ |website=Lizzi Collinge |access-date=2 July 2024}} She is a humanist. She was elected chair of the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group in 2025.{{cite web|url=https://humanists.uk/2025/01/16/lizzi-collinge-mp-elected-as-new-chair-of-the-apphg/|title=Lizzi Collinge MP elected as new chair of the APPHG|date=16 January 2025|accessdate=20 January 2025|work=Humanists UK}} She is the great-great-niece of fell-walker and writer Alfred Wainwright.{{cite web|url= https://www.ilovefreegle.org/communityevent/163644 |title=Talk:Wainwright, Rooted in the North |publisher=Carnforth Freegle| access-date=16 February 2025}}

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