Liverpool Walton (UK Parliament constituency)
Coordinates: 53°26′49″N 2°58′01″W / 53.447°N 2.967°W
Liverpool, Walton | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Liverpool, Walton in Merseyside. | |
Location of Merseyside within England. | |
County | Merseyside |
Electorate | 61,974 (December 2010)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1885 |
Member of parliament | Dan Carden (Labour) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Liverpool |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | North West England |
Liverpool, Walton is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Dan Carden of the Labour Party.[n 2] Carden won the highest percentage share of the vote in June 2017 of 650 constituencies, 85.7%.[2]
Boundaries
1918-1950: The County Borough of Liverpool wards of Fazakerley, Walton, and Warbreck.
1950-1955: As above plus the civil parish of Aintree in the Rural District of West Lancashire.
1955-1983: The County Borough of Liverpool wards of County, Fazakerley, Pirrie, and Warbreck.
1983-2010: The City of Liverpool wards of Anfield, Breckfield, County, Fazakerley, Melrose, and Warbreck.
2010–present: The City of Liverpool wards of Anfield, Clubmoor, County, Everton, Fazakerley, and Warbreck.
The constituency is one of five covering the city of Liverpool and covers the north-centre of the city thereby taking in Walton, Clubmoor, Orrell Park, Anfield, Everton and Fazakerley. The grounds of Liverpool F.C. (Anfield) and Everton F.C. (Goodison Park), the city's two major football clubs, are in the constituency.
History
Created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Liverpool Walton has been held by the Labour Party since the 1960s, and is the party's safest seat by size of majority. In 2010 and 2015, it had the largest Labour majority in the country by percentage terms.[3] Labour won over 70% of the vote in every general election since 1992, though for many years it was looked on as a reasonably safe Conservative seat. Until 1964, Labour had only gained Walton once, in their landslide victory in 1945. Conservative candidates for MP have struggled to get 6% in recent elections and failed to poll second-place from 1992 until 2017. From 1964 until his death in 1991 the seat was held by the notable left-winger Eric Heffer; the subsequent by-election was won by Peter Kilfoyle, who held the seat until 2010. Steve Rotheram won the seat in 2010 after Kilfoyle had stood down.
In both the 2010 and 2015 general elections, Liverpool Walton saw the highest share of the vote for a winning candidate in the country, and in the latter election, the 81.3% of the vote won by Rotheram was the highest of any candidate in an election in the UK since 1997.[4]
In 2015 Liverpool Walton was the only English seat where the Conservative candidate lost their deposit.
In the 2016 referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union, the constituency is estimated to have voted by a 7.6% majority in favour of leaving the EU in contrast to Rotherham, who supported remaining in the EU. The Leave percentage vote was 53.8%.[5][6]
Rotherham stood down as an MP at the 2017 general election due to his election as Mayor of the Liverpool City Region and was succeeded as the Labour candidate by Dan Carden, who won the seat with the highest vote share for any Labour candidate nationally, at 85.7%.[7]
Members of Parliament
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Dan Carden | 36,175 | 85.7 | +4.4 | |
Conservative | Laura Evans | 3,624 | 8.6 | +3.9 | |
Independent | Terry May | 1,237 | 2.9 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Kris Brown | 638 | 1.5 | -0.8 | |
Green | Colm Feeley | 523 | 1.2 | -1.2 | |
Majority | 32,551 | 77.1 | +4.8 | ||
Turnout | 42,197 | 67.3 | +6.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Steve Rotheram | 31,222 | 81.3 | +9.3 | |
UKIP | Steven Flatman | 3,445 | 9.0 | +6.4 | |
Conservative | Norsheen Bhatti | 1,802 | 4.7 | -1.8 | |
Green | Jonathan Clatworthy | 956 | 2.5 | New | |
Liberal Democrat | Patrick Moloney | 899 | 2.3 | −11.9 | |
Independent | Alexander Karran | 56 | 0.1 | New | |
The Pluralist Party | Jonathan Bishop | 23 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 27,777 | 72.3 | +14.6 | ||
Turnout | 38,403 | 61.1 | +6.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Steve Rotheram | 24,709 | 72.0 | +0.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | Patrick Moloney | 4,891 | 14.2 | −2.7 | |
Conservative | Adam Marsden | 2,241 | 6.5 | +0.6 | |
BNP | Peter Stafford | 1,104 | 3.2 | N/A | |
UKIP | Joseph Nugent | 898 | 2.6 | −0.7 | |
Christian Peoples | John Manwell | 297 | 0.9 | N/A | |
TUSC | Darren Ireland | 195 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 19,818 | 57.7 | |||
Turnout | 34,335 | 54.8 | +8.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.5 |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Peter Kilfoyle | 20,322 | 72.8 | −5.0 | |
Liberal Democrat | Kiron Reid | 4,365 | 15.6 | +1.0 | |
Conservative | Sharon Buckle | 1,655 | 5.9 | −0.2 | |
UKIP | Joseph Moran | 1,108 | 4.0 | +2.4 | |
Liberal | Daniel J. Wood | 480 | 1.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 15,957 | 57.1 | |||
Turnout | 27,930 | 45.0 | +2.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −3.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Peter Kilfoyle | 22,143 | 77.8 | −0.6 | |
Liberal Democrat | Kiron Reid | 4,147 | 14.6 | +3.5 | |
Conservative | Stephen Horgan | 1,726 | 6.1 | −0.2 | |
UKIP | Paul Forrest | 442 | 1.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 17,996 | 63.2 | |||
Turnout | 28,458 | 43.0 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | −2.1 |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Peter Kilfoyle | 31,516 | 78.4 | +6.0 | |
Liberal Democrat | Richard J. Roberts | 4,478 | 11.1 | −0.9 | |
Conservative | Mark K. Kotecha | 2,551 | 6.3 | −6.2 | |
Referendum | Charles Grundy | 620 | 1.5 | N/A | |
Socialist Alternative | Lesley Mahmood | 444 | 1.1 | N/A | |
Liberal | Hazel L. Williams | 352 | 0.9 | −1.1 | |
ProLife Alliance | Veronica P. Mearns | 246 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 27,038 | 67.2 | |||
Turnout | 40,207 | 59.5 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Peter Kilfoyle | 34,214 | 72.4 | +8.0 | |
Conservative | Berkeley Greenwood | 5,915 | 12.5 | −1.9 | |
Liberal Democrat | Joseph Lang | 5,672 | 12.0 | −9.2 | |
Liberal | Tom Newall | 963 | 2.0 | N/A | |
Protestant Reformation | David J.E. Carson | 393 | 0.8 | N/A | |
Natural Law | Dianne Raiano | 98 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 28,299 | 59.9 | +16.7 | ||
Turnout | 47,255 | 67.4 | −6.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +4.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Peter Kilfoyle | 21,317 | 53.1 | −11.3 | |
Liberal Democrat | Paul Clark | 14,457 | 36.0 | +14.8 | |
Walton Real Labour | Lesley Mahmood | 2,613 | 6.5 | N/A | |
Conservative | Berkeley Greenwood | 1,155 | 2.9 | −11.5 | |
Monster Raving Loony | Screaming Lord Sutch | 546 | 1.4 | N/A | |
Independent | George Lee-Delisle | 63 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,860 | 17.1 | −26.1 | ||
Turnout | 40,151 | 56.7 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Eric Heffer | 34,661 | 64.4 | +11.7 | |
Liberal | Paul Clark | 11,408 | 21.2 | −0.2 | |
Conservative | Iain Mays | 7,738 | 14.4 | −10.8 | |
Majority | 23,253 | 43.2 | +15.6 | ||
Turnout | 53,807 | 73.6 | +4.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +6.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Eric Heffer | 26,980 | 52.7 | ||
Conservative | Alan Maddox | 12,865 | 25.1 | ||
Liberal | David M.B. Croft | 10,970 | 21.4 | ||
BNP | Donald J.M. McKechnie | 343 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 14,115 | 27.6 | |||
Turnout | 51,158 | 69.6 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Eric Heffer | 20,231 | 55.22 | ||
Conservative | R. Gould | 12,673 | 34.59 | ||
Liberal | N. Cardwell | 3,479 | 9.50 | ||
National Front | W.F. Haire | 254 | 0.69 | ||
Majority | 7,558 | 20.63 | |||
Turnout | 72.83 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Eric Heffer | 20,568 | 57.95 | ||
Conservative | R. Gould | 10,706 | 30.16 | ||
Liberal | J. Watton | 4,221 | 11.89 | ||
Majority | 9,862 | 27.78 | |||
Turnout | 68.30 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Eric Heffer | 20,057 | 53.65 | ||
Conservative | R.W. Rollins | 11,841 | 31.67 | ||
Liberal | J. Watton | 4,842 | 12.95 | ||
National Front | C. Gibbon | 647 | 1.73 | ||
Majority | 8,216 | 21.98 | |||
Turnout | 72.69 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Eric Heffer | 20,530 | 56.01 | ||
Conservative | Joseph Norton | 16,124 | 43.99 | ||
Majority | 4,406 | 12.02 | |||
Turnout | 67.99 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Eric Heffer | 20,950 | 57.29 | ||
Conservative | Kenneth Thompson | 15,617 | 42.71 | ||
Majority | 5,333 | 14.58 | |||
Turnout | 71.18 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Eric Heffer | 21,452 | 53.63 | ||
Conservative | Kenneth Thompson | 18,546 | 46.37 | ||
Majority | 2,906 | 7.27 | |||
Turnout | 75.62 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Kenneth Thompson | 24,288 | 54.53 | ||
Labour | George McCartney | 20,254 | 45.47 | ||
Majority | 4,034 | 9.06 | |||
Turnout | 77.72 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Kenneth Thompson | 23,851 | 53.19 | ||
Labour | Joseph Cleary | 20,989 | 46.81 | ||
Majority | 2,862 | 6.38 | |||
Turnout | 75.33 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Kenneth Thompson | 28,014 | 53.59 | ||
Labour | Ian Isidore Levin | 24,262 | 46.41 | ||
Majority | 3,752 | 7.18 | |||
Turnout | 81.05 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Kenneth Thompson | 26,250 | 49.40 | ||
Labour | James Haworth | 21,983 | 41.37 | ||
Liberal | Ewart Heywood | 4,901 | 9.22 | ||
Majority | 4,267 | 8.03 | |||
Turnout | 83.07 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | James Haworth | 18,385 | 43.61 | ||
Conservative | Reginald Purbrick | 15,749 | 37.35 | ||
Liberal | Elizabeth Ruth Webster | 8,028 | 19.04 | ||
Majority | 2,636 | 6.25 | |||
Turnout | 69.55 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Reginald Purbrick | 22,623 | 61.64 | ||
Labour | Frederick Lees McGhee | 14,079 | 38.36 | ||
Majority | 8,544 | 23.28 | |||
Turnout | 64.24 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Reginald Purbrick | 31,135 | 73.57 | ||
Labour | F.A.P. Rowe | 11,183 | 26.43 | ||
Majority | 19,952 | 47.15 | |||
Turnout | 77.50 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Election results 1885-1929
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John George Gibson | 3,492 | 58.3 | N/A | |
Liberal | Augustine Birrell | 2,500 | 41.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 992 | 16.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 5,992 | 78.0 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 7,683 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John George Gibson | 2,872 | 63.1 | +4.8 | |
Liberal | Charles Hamilton Bromby | 1,681 | 36.9 | -4.8 | |
Majority | 1,191 | 26.2 | +9.6 | ||
Turnout | 4,553 | 59.3 | −18.7 | ||
Registered electors | 7,683 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +4.8 |
Gibson was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland, requiring a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John George Gibson | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Gibson resigned after being appointed a Judge of the Queen's Bench Division in the High Court of Justice in Ireland, causing a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Miles Walker Mattinson | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James Henry Stock | 3,707 | 59.8 | −3.3 | |
Liberal | Benjamin Ward Richardson | 2,493 | 40.2 | +3.3 | |
Majority | 1,214 | 19.6 | −6.6 | ||
Turnout | 6,200 | 68.9 | +9.6 | ||
Registered electors | 9,004 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −3.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James Henry Stock | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James Henry Stock | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | F. E. Smith | 5,862 | 53.2 | N/A | |
Liberal | Edwin George Jellicoe | 5,153 | 46.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 709 | 6.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 11,015 | 74.0 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 14,889 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | F. E. Smith | 6,627 | 52.6 | -0.6 | |
Liberal | Francis L'Estrange Joseph | 5,513 | 43.8 | -3.0 | |
Independent Liberal | Edwin George Jellicoe | 451 | 3.6 | -43.2 | |
Majority | 1,114 | 8.8 | |||
Turnout | 80.4 | +6.4 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | F. E. Smith | 6,383 | 55.9 | ||
Liberal | William Permewan | 5,039 | 44.1 | ||
Majority | 1,344 | 11.8 | +3.0 | ||
Turnout | 72.9 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
General Election 1914/15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
- Unionist: F. E. Smith
- Liberal: Thomas Berridge[26]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
C | Unionist | Harry Chilcott | 11,457 | 71.4 | +15.5 |
Labour | Robert Dixon Smith | 4,580 | 28.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,877 | 42.9 | +31.1 | ||
Turnout | 16,037 | 55.1 | −20.8 | ||
Registered electors | 29,128 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | N/A | |||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Harry Chilcott | Unopposed | |||
Unionist hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Harry Chilcott | Unopposed | |||
Unionist hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Harry Chilcott | 13,387 | 55.3 | N/A | |
Labour | Tom Gillinder | 8,924 | 36.8 | N/A | |
Liberal | Samuel Skelton | 1,910 | 7.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,463 | 18.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 24,221 | 76.9 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 31,482 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Reginald Purbrick | 16,623 | 42.7 | −12.6 | |
Labour | F A P Rowe | 16,395 | 42.2 | +5.4 | |
Liberal | Glyn Howard Howard-Jones | 5,857 | 15.1 | +7.2 | |
Majority | 228 | 0.5 | −18.0 | ||
Turnout | 38,875 | 76.0 | −0.9 | ||
Registered electors | 51,175 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | −9.0 |
See also
Notes and references
- Notes
- ↑ A borough 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
- ↑ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Archived from the original on 6 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ↑ See Results of the United Kingdom general election, 2017, by parliamentary constituency
- ↑ "UK Polling Report". ukpollingreport.co.uk.
- ↑ List of Labour MPs elected in 2015 by % majority UK Political.info. Retrieved 2017-01-29
- ↑ Hanretty, Chris (29 June 2016). "The EU referendum: how did Westminster constituencies vote?".
- ↑ BBC Daily Politics, Feb 1 2017
- ↑ "GE2017 - Constituency results". Britain Elects (Google Docs). Retrieved 11 June 2017.
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 1)
- ↑
- ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ "Liverpool Walton". Liverpool City Council. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
- ↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 The Liberal Year Book, 1907
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
- 1 2 Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
- 1 2 Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
- ↑ Liverpool Daily Post 27 Jun 1914
- 1 2 3 4 5 British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig