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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
North West
75,436 electors
Active Seat

Burnley

Current MP
Oliver Ryan
Oliver Ryan

🗳️ Election History

5
Elections
60.1%
Avg Turnout
3
Times Changed
2015
Current Party Since
Labour Oliver Ryan Gain from Conservative
Majority 3,420
Turnout 53.0% ↓7.6pp
Total Votes 39,719
Winner Swing ↓8.6pp
✓ Oliver Ryan
Labour
12,598 31.7%
↓8.5pp
Gordon Birtwistle
Liberal Democrats
9,178 23.1%
↑15.4pp
Antony Higginbotham
Conservative
8,058 20.3%
↓20.2pp
Nathan McCollum
Reform UK
7,755 19.5%
↑12.4pp
Jack Launer
Green Party
1,518 3.8%
↑2.0pp
Rayyan Fiass
—
292 0.7%
—
Mitchell Cryer
—
169 0.4%
—
David Roper
—
151 0.4%
—
Conservative Antony Higginbotham Gain from Labour
Majority 1,352
Turnout 60.6% ↓1.7pp
Total Votes 38,984
Winner Swing ↓6.4pp
✓ Antony Higginbotham
Conservative
15,720 40.3%
↑9.4pp
Julie Cooper
Labour
14,368 36.9%
↓9.9pp
Gordon Birtwistle
Liberal Democrats
3,501 9.0%
↓6.0pp
Stewart Ian Scott
—
3,362 8.6%
—
Charlie Briggs
—
1,162 3.0%
—
Laura Fisk
Green Party
739 1.9%
↑0.8pp
Karen Helsby Entwistle
—
132 0.3%
—
Labour Julie Cooper Hold
Majority 6,353
Turnout 62.3% ↑0.6pp
Total Votes 40,290
Winner Swing ↑9.1pp
✓ Julie Cooper
Labour
18,832 46.7%
↑9.1pp
Paul White
Conservative
12,479 31.0%
↑17.5pp
Gordon Birtwistle
Liberal Democrats
6,046 15.0%
↓14.5pp
Tom Commis
—
2,472 6.1%
↓11.1pp
Laura Fisk
Green Party
461 1.1%
↓1.0pp
Labour Julie Cooper Gain from Liberal Democrat
Majority 3,244
Turnout 61.6% ↓1.2pp
Total Votes 39,746
Winner Swing ↑1.9pp
✓ Julie Cooper
Labour
14,951 37.6%
↑6.3pp
Gordon Birtwistle
Liberal Democrats
11,707 29.5%
↓6.2pp
Tom Commis
—
6,864 17.3%
↑15.1pp
Sarah Cockburn-Price
Conservative
5,374 13.5%
↓3.1pp
Mike Hargreaves
Green Party
850 2.1%
—
Liberal Democrat Gordon Birtwistle Hold
Majority 1,818
Turnout 62.8%
Total Votes 41,845
✓ Gordon Birtwistle
Liberal Democrats
14,932 35.7%
↑12.0pp
Julie Cooper
Labour
13,114 31.3%
↓7.1pp
Richard Ali
Conservative
6,950 16.6%
↑5.8pp
Sharon Wilkinson
—
3,747 9.0%
↓1.3pp
Andrew Brown
—
1,876 4.5%
—
Richard Wignall
—
929 2.2%
↑1.3pp
Andrew Hennessey
—
297 0.7%
—

Turnout Trend

62.8%
'10
61.6%
'15
62.3%
'17
60.6%
'19
53.0%
'24

👥 Demographics

▲▼ changes shown vs 2011 Census
📊 Age
0 to 17
23.6%
35 to 49
19.2%
50 to 64
18.0%
65 and over
17.8% ▲1.6pp
25 to 34
13.4%
18 to 24
8.0%
🌍 Ethnicity
White
77.6%
Asian or Asian British
19.7%
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups
1.6%
Other
0.8%
Black, African, Caribbean or Black British
0.3%
📊 Age
Under 18
23.6%
18 to 29
21.4%
30 to 44
19.2%
45 to 64
18.0%
65 and over
17.8%
⛪ Religion
Christian
45.6%
No religion
29.3%
Muslim
18.8%
Not answered
5.4%
Other religion
0.4%
Buddhist
0.2%
Hindu
0.2%
Sikh
0.1%
Jewish
0.0%
🌍 Ethnicity
White
87.4%
Asian or Asian British
11.0%
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups
1.1%
Other ethnic group
0.3%
Black, African, Caribbean or Black British
0.2%
📊 Age
45 to 64
26.4%
Under 18
22.2%
30 to 44
19.5%
65 and over
16.2%
18 to 29
15.6%
⛪ Religion
Christian
63.6%
No religion
19.7%
Muslim
9.9%
Religion not stated
6.0%
Other religion
0.3%
Buddhist
0.2%
Hindu
0.2%
Sikh
0.0%
Jewish
0.0%

Previous MPs

Historical representatives of this constituency
MP Name Party From To
Antony Higginbotham Conservative 2019-12-12 2024-05-30
Julie Cooper Labour 2015-05-07 2019-11-06
Gordon Birtwistle Liberal Democrat 2010-05-06 2015-03-30
Kitty Ussher Labour 2005-05-05 2010-05-06
Mr Peter Pike Labour 1983-06-09 2005-05-05
Dan Jones Labour 1959-10-08 1983-06-09