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]

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]}

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

Collinge 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]

Collinge is married to Miles, who works full-time in the NHS. ^[10] They have two children and live in Heysham. ^[3] She is a humanist. ^[10]

• Official website
• Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
• Contributions in Parliament at Hansard
• Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou

• "Watch as Labour's Lizzi Collinge wins in Morecambe and Lunesdale". Lancaster Guardian. 5 July 2024. 5m35s video clip of announcement of 2024 general election result and Collinge's acceptance speech