page_title: Morley, West Yorkshire
section_title: Governance
hierarchical_section_title: Morley, West Yorkshire / Governance
caption_attribution_description: English: Official portrait of Mrs Andrea Jenkyns MP 1×1 portrait of Mrs Andrea Jenkyns
context_page_description: Morley is a market town and a civil parish within the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, in West Yorkshire, England.
  It lies approximately 5 miles south-west of Leeds city centre. It was built on seven hills: Scatcherd Hill, Dawson Hill, Daisy Hill, Chapel Hill, Hunger Hill, Troy Hill and Banks Hill. In 2011, the town and civil parish had populations of 44,440 and 27,738 respectively.
  The town is split between the Morley North and Morley South wards of Leeds City Council, both making up the western half of the Morley and Outwood parliamentary constituency.
context_section_description: Historically, Morley was the centre of one of two divisions of the wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley. Morley became a Municipal Borough in 1889 and under the Local Government Act 1972, was incorporated into the City of Leeds Metropolitan District. Morley is represented on Leeds City Council by three wards (namely Morley North, Morley South and Ardsley and Robin Hood) each with three councillors. At the 2010 general election, Morley and Outwood was won by Ed Balls of the Labour Party, who had been MP for Normanton since 2005, and served as Labour's Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2011 until 2015. Balls narrowly lost the seat at the 2015 general election to Conservative Andrea Jenkyns.
  A town council was established in 2000, though it does not cover Drighlington, Gildersome, Tingley and East and West Ardsley - areas formerly part of the municipal borough.
  Following a review of parliamentary representation in West Yorkshire, the Morley and Rothwell parliamentary constituency was abolished at the 
  2010 election and replaced by the Morley and Outwood constituency.
  The town's coat of arms featured the symbolic principal industries of the municipal borough: textile manufacturing, coal mining and quarrying.
caption: Mrs Andrea Jenkyns has been Member of Parliament for Morley and Outwood since 2015.
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