Editing Morley, West Yorkshire (section)

==Governance==
[[File:Morley Map.jpg|thumb|left|Street map of Morley]]
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 borough|Metropolitan District]]. Morley is represented on [[Leeds City Council]] by three wards (namely [[Morley North (ward)|Morley North]], [[Morley South (ward)|Morley South]] and [[Ardsley and Robin Hood (ward)|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 United Kingdom general election|2015 general election]] to [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Andrea Jenkyns]]. In the 2024 General Election, Mark Sewards won a majority and ousted Andrea Jenkyns from the MP position after the constituency boundaries were redrawn to change Morley and Outwood to Leeds South West and Morley.

A [[town council]] was established in 2000. Localities which are included within the town council's area include [[Churwell]], Elmfield, Scatcherd, Teale, Topcliffe and [[Woodkirk]],<ref>[https://www.morley.gov.uk/ Morley Town Council], accessed on 2 April 2025</ref> but [[Drighlington]], [[Gildersome]], [[Tingley]] and [[East Ardsley|East]] and [[West Ardsley]], which were formerly part of the municipal borough, are outside the town council's area.

Following a review of parliamentary representation in West Yorkshire, the [[Morley and Rothwell (UK Parliament constituency)|Morley and Rothwell]] parliamentary constituency was abolished at the [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010 election]] and replaced by the [[Morley and Outwood (UK Parliament constituency)|Morley and Outwood]] constituency. 

The town's [[coat of arms]] featured the symbolic principal industries of the municipal borough: [[textile manufacturing]], [[coal mining]] and [[quarry]]ing.