Historic 1983–1997: • The
District of Eden wards of: • Kirkby Stephen, • Orton with Tebay, • Ravenstonedale • Shap • and the
District of South Lakeland wards of: • Arnside, • Beetham, • Broughton, • Burneside, • Burton and Holme, • Cartmel, • Cartmel Fell, • Colton and Haverthwaite, • Coniston, • Crake Valley, • Endmoor, • Grange, • Hawkshead, • Holker, • Hutton, • Kendal Castle, • Kendal Far Cross, • Kendal Fell, • Kendal Glebelands, • Kendal Heron Hill, • Kendal Highgate, • Kendal Mintsfeet, • Kendal Nether, • Kendal Oxenholme, • Kendal Stonecross, • Kendal Strickland, • Kendal Underley, • Kirkby Lonsdale, • Lakes Ambleside, • Lakes Grasmere, • Levens, • Lyth Valley, • Milnthorpe, • Sedbergh, • Staveley-in-Westmorland, • Whinfell, • Windermere Applethwaite, • Windermere Bowness North, • Windermere Bowness South, • Windermere Town.
1997–2010: As above, excluding the District of Eden wards which were transferred to
Penrith and The Border.
2010–2024: The
District of South Lakeland wards of: •
Arnside and
Beetham, • Burneside, • Burton and Holme, •
Cartmel, •
Coniston, • Crooklands, •
Grange, •
Hawkshead, • Holker, •
Kendal Castle, • Kendal Far Cross, • Kendal Fell, • Kendal Glebelands, • Kendal Heron Hill, • Kendal Highgate, • Kendal Kirkland, • Kendal Mintsfeet, • Kendal Nether, • Kendal
Oxenholme, • Kendal Parks, • Kendal Stonecross, • Kendal Strickland, • Kendal Underley, •
Kirkby Lonsdale, • Lakes
Ambleside, • Lakes
Grasmere, • Levens, • Lyth Valley, •
Milnthorpe, • Natland, •
Sedbergh, •
Staveley-in-Cartmel, •
Staveley-in-Westmorland, • Whinfell, •
Windermere Applethwaite, • Windermere Bowness North, • Windermere Bowness South, • Windermere Town This boundary change transferred
Broughton-in-Furness to
Barrow and Furness.
Current The
2023 review of Westminster constituencies was carried out using the local authority structure as it existed in
Cumbria on 1 December 2020 and is officially defined as: • The District of
Eden wards of: • Appleby (Appleby); • Appleby (Bongate); • Askham; • Brough; • Crosby Ravensworth; • Dacre; • Eamont; • Greystoke; • Kirkby Stephen; • Kirkby Thore; • Long Marton; • Morland; • Orton and Tebay; • Ravenstonedale; • Shap; • Ullswater; • Warcop. • The District of
South Lakeland wards of: • Ambleside & Grasmere; • Bowness & Levens; • Broughton & Coniston (polling districts AF, AO, AP, AQ, AS, AT, AU, BC, BDA, BDB, CX and DH); • Cartmel; • Grange; • Kendal East; • Kendal North; • Kendal Rural; • Kendal South & Natland; • Kendal Town; • Kendal West; • Windermere. With effect from 1 April 2023, the Districts of Eden and South Lakeland were abolished and absorbed into the new unitary authority of
Westmorland and Furness. Consequently, the constituency now comprises the following wards of Westmorland and Furness from the 2024 general election: • Appleby and Brough; • Bowness and Lyth; • Coniston and Hawkshead (nearly all); • Eamont and Shap; • Eden and Lyvennet Vale; • Grange and Cartmel; • Greystoke and Ullswater; • Kendal Castle; • Kendal Highgate; • Kendal Nether; • Kendal South (majority); • Kendal Strickland and Fell; • Kirkby Stephen and Tebay; • Levens and Crooklands (majority); • Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale (part); • Upper Kent; • Windermere and Ambleside. The constituency was expanded by adding parts of the former District of Eden, including the market towns of
Appleby-in-Westmorland and
Kirkby Stephen, previously in the abolished constituency of
Penrith and The Border. To partly offset this, the former District of South Lakeland wards of
Arnside &
Milnthorpe,
Burton &
Crooklands, and
Sedbergh &
Kirkby Lonsdale were included in
Morecambe and Lunesdale, thereby making the latter a cross-county boundary constituency. The new constituency is made up of part of the previous constituency (41.7% by area and 72.3% by population of the new constituency) and part of the former
Penrith and The Border constituency (58.3% by area and 27.7% by population of the new constituency). ==History==