Liverpool Garston (UK Parliament constituency)
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Liverpool Garston | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of Liverpool Garston in Merseyside for the 2005 general election.
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Location of Merseyside within England.
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County | Merseyside |
1950–2010 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Garston and Halewood |
European Parliament constituency | North West England |
Liverpool Garston was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
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Boundaries
1950-1983: The County Borough of Liverpool wards of Aigburth, Allerton, Childwall, Garston, Little Woolton, and Much Woolton.
1983-1997: The City of Liverpool wards of Allerton, Netherley, St Mary's, Speke, Valley, and Woolton.
1997-2010: The City of Liverpool wards of Allerton, Grassendale, Netherley, St Mary's, Speke, Valley, and Woolton.
The constituency was one of five covering the city of Liverpool, covering the southern part of the city. As well as Garston, it contained areas such as Allerton, Netherley, Speke and Woolton. Liverpool John Lennon Airport was located in the constituency.
The Liverpool Garston seat was abolished at the 2010 general election following boundary changes. It was replaced with a new Garston and Halewood constituency, also covering part of the Knowsley borough.
History
The Labour Party held Liverpool Garston from the 1983 general election until the constituency was abolished. Prior to that time the constituency was a fairly safe Conservative seat until Labour gained it in 1974, with the Conservatives regaining it in 1979 for the last time. The Conservative share of the vote declined to less than 10% in the 2005 election, when they came third behind the Liberal Democrats.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member [1] | Party | |
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1950 | Victor Raikes | Conservative | |
1957 by-election | Richard Bingham | Conservative | |
1966 | Tim Fortescue | Conservative | |
Feb 1974 | Eddie Loyden | Labour | |
1979 | Malcolm Thornton | Conservative | |
1983 | Eddie Loyden | Labour | |
1997 | Maria Eagle | Labour | |
2010 | Constituency abolished: see Garston and Halewood |
Elections
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Maria Eagle | 18,900 | 54.0 | −7.4 | |
Liberal Democrat | Mrs. Paula Clare Keaveney | 11,707 | 33.5 | +10.4 | |
Conservative | Amber Rudd | 3,424 | 9.8 | −5.7 | |
UKIP | Kevin B. Kearney | 780 | 2.2 | N/A | |
Workers Revolutionary | Dave C. Oatley | 163 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 7,193 | 20.6 | |||
Turnout | 34,974 | 54.9 | +4.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −8.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Maria Eagle | 20,043 | 61.4 | +0.1 | |
Liberal Democrat | Mrs. Paula Clare Keaveney | 7,549 | 23.1 | +4.1 | |
Conservative | Miss Helen Clare Sutton | 5,059 | 15.5 | −0.2 | |
Majority | 12,494 | 38.3 | |||
Turnout | 32,651 | 50.2 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | −2.0 |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Maria Eagle | 26,667 | 61.3 | +4.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | Mrs. Flo Clucas | 8,250 | 19.0 | +5.7 | |
Conservative | Nigel I. Gordon-Johnson | 6,819 | 15.7 | −11.2 | |
Referendum | Frank Dunne | 833 | 1.9 | +1.9 | |
Liberal | Gary I. Copeland | 666 | 1.5 | −0.7 | |
Natural Law | John V. Parsons | 127 | 0.3 | −0.2 | |
Socialist Equality | Stuart Nolan | 120 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 18,417 | 42.3 | |||
Turnout | 43,482 | 65.0 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +7.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Eddie Loyden | 23,212 | 57.1 | +3.6 | |
Conservative | John E. Backhouse | 10,933 | 26.9 | +3.0 | |
Liberal Democrat | Bill Roberts | 5,398 | 13.3 | −9.1 | |
Liberal | Tony Conrad | 894 | 2.2 | N/A | |
Natural Law | Peter J. Chandler | 187 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 12,279 | 30.2 | +0.5 | ||
Turnout | 40,624 | 70.6 | −5.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.3 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Eddie Loyden | 24,848 | 53.6 | +7.0 | |
Conservative | Paul Bernard Feather | 11,071 | 23.9 | −14.0 | |
Social Democratic | Richard Isaacson | 10,370 | 22.4 | +6.9 | |
Workers Revolutionary | Kevin Timlin | 98 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 13,777 | 29.6 | |||
Turnout | 46,387 | 75.7 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +10.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Eddie Loyden | 21,450 | 46.6 | ||
Conservative | James S. Ross | 17,448 | 37.9 | ||
Liberal | Rosie Cooper | 7,153 | 15.5 | ||
Majority | 4,002 | 8.7 | |||
Turnout | 46,051 | 71.6 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | N/A |
Note: This constituency underwent major boundary changes in 1983 and so was notionally a hold.
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Malcolm Thornton | 28,105 | 48.1 | +6.0 | |
Labour | Eddie Loyden | 25,318 | 43.3 | −4.5 | |
Liberal | W.J. Davidson | 4,890 | 8.4 | −1.7 | |
Workers Revolutionary | T. Kelly | 142 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,787 | 4.8 | |||
Turnout | 58,455 | 73.8 | |||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +5.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Eddie Loyden | 27,857 | 47.8 | +5.4 | |
Conservative | D. Stanley | 24,577 | 42.1 | +0.9 | |
Liberal | G. Black | 5,865 | 10.1 | −6.3 | |
Majority | 3,300 | 5.7 | |||
Turnout | 58,299 | 71.9 | −2.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Eddie Loyden | 25,332 | 42.4 | −1.1 | |
Conservative | N. Laville | 24,651 | 41.2 | −15.8 | |
Liberal | G. Black | 9,834 | 16.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 681 | 1.1 | |||
Turnout | 59,817 | 74.6 | +8.9 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +7.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tim Fortescue | 28,381 | 57.0 | +2.6 | |
Labour | Colin J. Smith | 21,456 | 43.5 | −2.1 | |
Majority | 6,925 | 13.9 | + | ||
Turnout | 49,837 | 65.7 | −2.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.4 |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tim Fortescue | 24,716 | 54.4 | +4.6 | |
Labour | William H. Waldron | 20,746 | 45.6 | +9.2 | |
Majority | 3,970 | 8.7 | |||
Turnout | 45,462 | 68.2 | −4.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −2.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Richard Bingham | 24,100 | 49.8 | −14.7 | |
Labour | John D. Hamilton | 17,626 | 36.4 | +0.9 | |
Liberal | Frank Kirk | 6,708 | 13.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,474 | 13.4 | |||
Turnout | 48,434 | 72.9 | −1.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −7.8 |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Richard Bingham | 31,441 | 64.5 | +1.0 | |
Labour | B. Crookes | 17,284 | 35.5 | −1.0 | |
Majority | 14,157 | 29.1 | |||
Turnout | 48,725 | 74.4 | +3.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Richard Martin Bingham | 15,521 | 49.2 | −14.3 | |
Labour | I. Levin | 11,217 | 35.6 | −0.9 | |
Liberal | Arthur Donald Dennis | 4,807 | 15.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,304 | 13.6 | |||
Turnout | 31,545 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −6.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Victor Raikes | 28,130 | 63.5 | −1.7 | |
Labour | T.E. Nixon | 16,161 | 36.5 | +1.7 | |
Majority | 11,969 | 27.0 | |||
Turnout | 44,291 | 71.0 | −1.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Victor Raikes | 35,650 | 65.2 | +7.6 | |
Labour | Alf Morris | 19,025 | 34.8 | +3.2 | |
Majority | 16,625 | 30.4 | |||
Turnout | 54,675 | 80.0 | −4.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Victor Raikes | 31,750 | 57.6 | N/A | |
Labour | E. Hewitt | 17,477 | 31.6 | N/A | |
Liberal | Prof. Walter Lyon Blease | 5,966 | 10.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 14,303 | 25.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 55,163 | 84.9 | N/A | ||
Conservative win (new seat) |
See also
Notes and references
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 1)[self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1950
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 2010
- Parliamentary constituencies in North West England (historic)
- Historic parliamentary constituencies of Liverpool