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Ben
Wallace MP
Lancaster & Wyre
Conservative
Previously a member of the Scottish Parliament Ben Wallace is a
keen supporter of the Countryside Alliance and a director of military
technology corp Qinetiq, part owned by the Carlyle Group with lucrative
contracts servicing the Iraq conflict. While the Conservative vote
was little changed from the 2001 election, Labour's suffered a hefty
8% drop.
MORECAMBE & LUNESDALE
Geraldine Smith
Labour
20,331
48.8
-0.8
James Airey
Conservative
15,563
37.4
+0.1
Alex Stone
Liberal Democrat
5,741
13.8
+4.6
Majority
4,768
11.5
Turnout
41,635
61.4
+0.3
Geraldine
Smith MP
Morecambe & Lunesdale
Labour
In 1997 Geraldine Smith overhauled a notional Conservative majority
of 10,572 to win by a touch under 6,000 votes. She beat Conservative
Mark Lennox-Boyd, previously secretary to Margaret Thatcher, who
had tried to bring a nuclear waste facility to Heysham. She was
named Labour's 2004 Campaigning MP of the Year for her (largely
unsuccessful) attempts to have the cockling industry regulated following
the 2004 cockling tragedy and the devastation of the Morecambe Bay
cockle beds due to over-exploitation.
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