Wirral South (UK Parliament constituency)
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County constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of Wirral South in Merseyside.
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Location of Merseyside within England.
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County | Merseyside |
Electorate | 56,238 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Heswall, Bebington |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of parliament | Alison McGovern (Labour) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Wirral Bebington & Ellesmere Port |
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European Parliament constituency | North West England |
Wirral South is a constituency[n 1] in Merseyside represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Alison McGovern of the Labour Party.[n 2]
History
In 1983 Wirral South arose for election following the national boundary review by taking over parts of two seats that were abolished to create it: Wirral and Bebington and Ellesmere Port, held by the Conservative Party since 1923 and 1979 respectively.
- Political history
Barry Porter (Con) won the seat the first time when it was fought and at the next two general elections. He had ousted the Labour party candidate from Bebington and Ellesmere Port in 1979 which he held until the election in 1983. Following the death of Porter in late 1996, a by-election was held in February 1997, the last by-election of that Parliament, held a matter of weeks before the general election was called. It was won by Ben Chapman (Lab), who held the seat until retiring following controversy over his expenses.[2] Labour narrowly managed to hold on in the 2010 general election.
Boundaries
Since its creation in 1983, the constituency has consisted of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral wards of Bebington, Bromborough, Clatterbridge, Eastham, and Heswall.
The constituency is one of four covering the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, covering the south of the borough. It contains the towns of Heswall and Bebington (both wards) and the villages of Bromborough (also a ward), Eastham, Brimstage and Thornton Hough.
Constituency profile
Workless claimants who were registered jobseekers, which is a proportion of total unemployed claimants, were in November 2012 much lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 2.3% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian. This was also lower than the regional average.[3]
2015 general election
The terms of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 mandated that the election was held on 7 May 2015. Alison McGovern was the sitting Member of Parliament for the Labour Party. The Conservative Party selected John Bell. Bell had previously stood for election in Clwyd South (2010)[4] and Delyn (2005).[5] He had also stood twice to be a Welsh Assembly Member.[6][7] He stood in a local council by-election in 2011, for Wrexham County Council.[8]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[9] | Party | |
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1983 | Barry Porter | Conservative | |
1997 by-election | Ben Chapman | Labour | |
2010 | Alison McGovern | Labour |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Alison McGovern | 20,165 | 48.2 | +7.4 | |
Conservative | John Bell | 15,566 | 37.2 | −2.2 | |
UKIP | David Scott | 3,737 | 8.9 | +5.7 | |
Liberal Democrat | Elizabeth Jewkes | 1,474 | 3.5 | −13.0 | |
Green | Paul Cartlidge | 895 | 2.1 | +2.1 | |
Majority | 4,599 | 11.0 | |||
Turnout | 41,837 | 73.5 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +4.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Alison McGovern | 16,276 | 40.79 | −1.7 | |
Conservative | Jeff Clarke | 15,745 | 39.46 | +6.3 | |
Liberal Democrat | Jamie Saddler | 6,611 | 16.57 | −5.0 | |
UKIP | David Anthony Scott | 1,274 | 3.19 | +1.6 | |
Majority | 531 | 1.3 | −8.1 | ||
Turnout | 39,906 | 71.1 | +3.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −4.0 |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ben Chapman | 16,892 | 42.5 | −4.9 | |
Conservative | Carl Robert Cross | 13,168 | 33.2 | −1.6 | |
Liberal Democrat | Simon Andrew Holbrook | 8,568 | 21.6 | +3.8 | |
UKIP | David Anthony Scott | 616 | 1.6 | N/A | |
Independent | Laurence Cresswell Jones | 460 | 1.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,724 | 9.4 | −3.2 | ||
Turnout | 39,704 | 67.5 | +1.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ben Chapman | 18,890 | 47.4 | −3.5 | |
Conservative | Tony Paul Millard | 13,841 | 34.8 | −1.6 | |
Liberal Democrat | Philip Norman Gilchrist | 7,087 | 17.8 | +7.4 | |
Majority | 5,049 | 12.6 | −2.0 | ||
Turnout | 39,818 | 65.6 | −15.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −1.0 |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ben Chapman | 24,499 | 50.9 | +19.7 | |
Conservative | Les Byrom | 17,495 | 36.4 | −14.4 | |
Liberal Democrat | Philip Norman Gilchrist | 5,018 | 10.4 | −2.7 | |
Referendum | Donald Wilcox | 768 | 1.6 | N/A | |
People's Labour | Jane Nielsen | 264 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Natural Law | Geoffrey Mead | 51 | 0.1 | −0.2 | |
Majority | 7,004 | 14.6 | −1.7 | ||
Turnout | 48,095 | 81.0 | −1.3 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +17.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ben Chapman | 22,767 | 52.6 | +18.0 | |
Conservative | Leslie Byrom | 14,879 | 34.4 | −16.5 | |
Liberal Democrat | Flo Clucas | 4,357 | 10.1 | −3.0 | |
UKIP | Richard North | 410 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Independent | Harold Bence | 184 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Socialist Labour | Michael Cullen | 156 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Disillusioned Conservative | Phillip Gott | 148 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Independent | Roger Taylor | 132 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Independent - anti tobacco donation | Anthony Samuelson | 124 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Natural Law | Geoffery Mead | 52 | 0.1 | −0.2 | |
21st Century Foresters | Colin Palmer | 44 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Independent - Thalidomide Action Group | Frederick Astbury | 40 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 7,888 | 18.2 | +1.9 | ||
Turnout | 60,512 | 71.5 | −10.8 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +17.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Barry Porter | 25,590 | 50.8 | +0.6 | |
Labour | Helen Southworth | 17,407 | 34.6 | +6.6 | |
Liberal Democrat | Edward T. Cunniffe | 6,581 | 13.1 | −8.7 | |
Green | Nigel Birchenough | 584 | 1.2 | N/A | |
Natural Law | George Griffiths | 182 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,183 | 16.3 | −5.9 | ||
Turnout | 50,344 | 82.3 | +2.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −3.0 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Barry Porter | 24,821 | 50.2 | −3.5 | |
Labour | John Steven Swarbrooke | 13,858 | 28.0 | +5.4 | |
Liberal | Philip Norman Gilchrist | 10,779 | 21.8 | −1.9 | |
Majority | 10,963 | 22.2 | |||
Turnout | 62,251 | 79.4 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Barry Porter | 24,766 | 53.7 | N/A | |
Social Democratic | P.J.M. Hollingworth | 10,928 | 23.7 | N/A | |
Labour | K.J.S. Rimmer | 10,411 | 22.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 13,838 | 30.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 60,864 | 75.8 | N/A | ||
Conservative win (new seat) |
See also
Notes and references
- Notes
- ↑ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
- ↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
- References
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- ↑ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
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- ↑ http://www.senedd.assemblywales.org/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?ID=4
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- ↑ http://www.wrexham.gov.uk/assets/pdfs/electoral/declaration_result_marchwiel_june11.pdf
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 4)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- ↑ C. Rallings & M. Thrasher, The Media Guide to the New Parliamentary Constituencies, p.177 (Plymouth: LGC Elections Centre, 1995)
- ↑ Swings are calculated relative to the 1992 election result, not the by-election result.
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- Parliamentary constituencies in North West England
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1983
- Politics of Wirral (borough)