1983–1997: The City of Carlisle wards of Belah, Belle Vue, Botcherby, Currock, Denton Holme, Harraby, Morton, St Aidan's, Stanwix Urban, Trinity, Upperby, and Yewdale.
1997–2010: The City of Carlisle wards of Belah, Belle Vue, Botcherby, Burgh, Currock, Dalston, Denton Holme, Harraby, Morton, St Aidan's, St Cuthbert Without, Stanwix Urban, Trinity, Upperby, and Yewdale.
2010–present: The City of Carlisle wards of Belah, Belle Vue, Botcherby, Burgh, Castle, Currock, Dalston, Denton Holme, Harraby, Morton, St Aidan's, Stanwix Urban, Upperby, Wetheral, and Yewdale.
Proposed
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the next general election, due by January 2025, the constituency will be composed of the following wards of the City of Carlisle (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
The constituency will be expanded to bring the electorate within the permitted range by transferring the parts of the (former) City of Carlisle local authority currently in the (to be abolished) constituency of Penrith and The Border - comprising the towns of Brampton and Longtown and surrounding villages and rural areas. To partly compensate, the Dalston & Burgh ward will be included in the new constituency of Penrith and Solway.
With effect from 1 April 2023, the City of Carlisle council was abolished and absorbed into the new unitary authority of Cumberland.[4] The constituency will therefore now comprise the following wards of Cumberland from the next general election:
Belah; Belle View; Botcherby; Brampton; Castle; Corby and Hayton; Currock; Dalston and Burgh (small part); Denton Holme; Harraby North; Harraby South; Houghton and Irthington; Longtown; Morton; Stanwix Urban; Upperby; Wetheral (majority); Yewdale.[5]
Constituency
The constituency covers the city of Carlisle itself. It also covers the rural area of the district to the south and west of the city, including the village of Dalston. The remaining parts of the district are in the Penrith and The Border constituency. Historically the constituency was tightly drawn around the city which favour the Labour Party but has gradually expanded to contain more rural areas within the district that are far more Conservative-inclined, such as Burgh, Dalston and Wetheral. This has seen the constituency shift from being a safe Labour seat to marginal status.
General election 1939–40:
Another general election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;
A General Election was due to take place by the end of 1915. By the summer of 1914, the following candidates had been adopted to contest that election. Due to the outbreak of war, the election never took place.
^A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
^As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years – from 1295 until 1885 it had the right to send two MPs in most years.
^Knubley defeated Rowland Stephenson in a contested by-election by 553 votes to 405; but on petition Knubley was unseated and Stephenson declared elected.
^At the general election Satterthwaite and Knubley defeated Curwen and Braddyll; however on petition the result was overturned and Curwen and Braddyll were declared elected. Knubley and Stephenson had each secured 503 votes of which 377 came from newly appointed freemen.
^Curwen was re-elected at the 1820 general election but was also elected for Cumberland, which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Carlisle in this parliament.
^ abcdHawkins, Angus (2015). "The Dynamics of Voting". Victorian Political Culture: 'Habits of Heart & Mind' (First ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 189. ISBN978-0-19-872848-1. Archived from the original on 21 February 2022. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
^ abHall, Catherine; Draper, Nicholas; McClelland, Keith; Donington, Katie; Lang, Rachel (2014). "Appendix 4: MPs 1832-80 in the compensation records". Legacies of British Slave-ownership: Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN978-1-107-04005-2. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
^On petition, the 1847 election in Carlisle was declared void. At the resulting by-election held in March 1848, Hodgson was re-elected but Howard, who had come third in the original election, finished ahead of Dixon.
^Hill, Alan G., ed. (1993). "18 September 1848". The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: VII A Supplement of New Letters. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 261. ISBN0-19-818523-5. Archived from the original on 21 February 2022. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
^Smith, Francis Barrymore (1973). "The English Republic". Radical Artisan: William James Linton 1812-97. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 111. ISBN0-7190-0531-0. Archived from the original on 8 February 2022. Retrieved 22 April 2018.