Liverpool Broadgreen (UK Parliament constituency)

Liverpool Broadgreen
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	Merseyside
1983–1997
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Liverpool Wavertree
Created from	Liverpool Mossley Hill

Liverpool Broadgreen was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Broadgreen suburb of Liverpool. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1983 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election.

Boundaries

The City of Liverpool wards of Broadgreen, Childwall, Kensington, Old Swan, and Tuebrook.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1983	Terry Fields	Labour
	1992	Jane Kennedy	Labour
	1997	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1983: Liverpool Broadgreen

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Terry Fields	18,802	40.9	N/A
	Conservative	Daniel P. Dougherty	15,002	32.6	N/A
	Liberal	Richard Pine	7,021	15.3	N/A
	Social Democratic	Dick Crawshaw	5,169	11.2	N/A
Majority			3,800	8.3	N/A
Turnout			45,994	72.1	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

• Both Crawshaw and Pine were official candidates of their respective local parties and both supported the Alliance between the Liberals and the SDP, however Crawshaw was given endorsement by the both national parties.

General Election 1987: Liverpool Broadgreen

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Terence Fields	23,262	48.6	+7.7
	Liberal	Richard Pine	17,215	35.9	+24.7
	Conservative	Mark Richard Gwyn Seddon	7,413	15.5	−17.1
Majority			6,047	12.6	+4.3
Turnout			47,890	75.9	+3.8
	Labour hold		Swing	−8.5

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Liverpool Broadgreen

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jane Elizabeth Kennedy	18,062	43.2	−3.3
	Liberal Democrat	Rosemary Elizabeth Cooper	11,035	26.4	−9.6
	Independent	Terence Fields	5,952	14.2	N/A
	Conservative	Mrs Helen L. Roche	5,405	12.9	−2.6
	Liberal	Steven Richard Radford	1,211	2.9	N/A
	Natural Law	Mrs. A. Brennan	149	0.4	N/A
Majority			7,027	16.8	+4.2
Turnout			41,814	69.6	−6.3
	Labour hold		Swing	+3.2

References

• The Times guide to the House of Commons 1983 - 1992