Copeland (UK Parliament constituency)

Copeland
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Copeland in Cumbria.
Location of Cumbria within England.
County	Cumbria
Electorate	63,696 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Whitehaven
Current constituency
Created	1983
Member of parliament	Trudy Harrison (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Whitehaven
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	North West England

Coordinates: 54°25′52″N 3°23′20″W / 54.431°N 3.389°W / 54.431; -3.389

Copeland is a constituency in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament created in 1983. The seat has been represented by Trudy Harrison of the Conservative Party since the February 2017 by-election.

The sole forerunner to the constituency was the abolished seat Whitehaven. Copeland had consistently returned Labour Party candidates since its 1983 creation until the by-election of 23 February 2017, when Trudy Harrison gained it for the Conservatives. Prior to that (save for the total landslide in 1931 when part of the parliamentary Labour Party remained in government with the Conservative Party in 1931, under Ramsey Macdonald), the last Conservative elected for the area was in 1924.

The 2015 result gave the seat the 31st most marginal majority of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.

Following the renaming of Whitehaven as Copeland, Jack Cunningham, who had previously been the member for Whitehaven, stood for and won the seat. Its boundaries remained unchanged, being coterminous with the local government district of Copeland.