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List of parliamentary constituencies in Merseyside

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The county of Merseyside created in 1974 has 15 Parliamentary constituencies — (sub-classified into 12 of borough type and three of county status affecting the level of expenses permitted and status of returning officer). The area, centred on its largest city of Liverpool, has since that year elected a majority of Labour Party MPs moreover since 1997 at least 13 of 15 seats have been held or won by the party at each general election. The two other largest parties nationally in England have to date won intermittently in the two larger seats within the four in the Wirral, the peninsula facing Liverpool, and best having alternately represented the seat centred on the coastal strip in and around the leisure resort of Southport. The latter town includes Birkdale and Ainsdale beach and has not since the seat was created in 1885 sided with the Labour Party. The bulk of seats especially towards the east and the centre of Liverpool have not sided with the Conservative Party since that party actively supported the National Labour Organisation (1931-1947).

Constituencies

  † Conservative   ‡ Labour   ¤ Liberal Democrat   ‡ Independent


Constituency[nb 1] Electorate Majority[nb 2] Member of Parliament Nearest opposition Map
Birkenhead BC 64,484 17,705 bgcolor=Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color Mick Whitley bgcolor=Template:Birkenhead Social Justice Party/meta/color Frank Field
Bootle BC 72,872 36,200 bgcolor=Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color Peter Dowd bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color Charles Fifield†
Garston and Halewood BC 75,248 32,149 bgcolor=Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color Maria Eagle bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color Adam Marsden†
Knowsley BC 81,760 42,214 bgcolor=Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color George Howarth bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color James Spencer†
Liverpool, Riverside BC 76,332 35,947 bgcolor=Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color Kim Johnson bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color Pamela Hall†
Liverpool, Walton BC 62,738 32,551 bgcolor=Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color Dan Carden bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color Laura Evans†
Liverpool, Wavertree BC 62,411 29,466 bgcolor=Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color Paula Barker bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color Denise Haddad†
Liverpool, West Derby BC 65,164 32,908 bgcolor=Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color Stephen Twigg bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color Paul Richardson†
Sefton Central CC 69,019 15,618 bgcolor=Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color Bill Esterson bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color Jade Marsden†
Southport BC 69,400 2,914 bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color Damien Moore bgcolor=Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color Liz Savage‡
St Helens North BC 76,088 18,406 bgcolor=Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color Conor McGinn bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color Jackson Ng†
St Helens South and Whiston BC 79,036 24,343 bgcolor=Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color Marie Rimmer bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color Ed McRandal†
Wallasey BC 67,454 23,320 bgcolor=Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color Angela Eagle bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color Andy Livsey†
Wirral South CC 57,670 8,323 bgcolor=Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color Alison McGovern bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color Adam Sykes†
Wirral West CC 55,995 5,365 bgcolor=Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color Margaret Greenwood bgcolor=Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color Tony Caldeira†

Changes proposed for 2022

As part of the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies the Boundary Commission for England proposed in 2018 the following seats for the Merseyside and Wirral regions:[1]

Results

Constituencies 1997–2010

  1. Birkenhead BC
  2. Bootle BC
  3. Crosby BC
  4. Knowsley North and Sefton East CC
  5. Knowsley South CC
  6. Liverpool, Garston BC
  7. Liverpool, Riverside BC
  8. Liverpool, Walton BC
  9. Liverpool, Wavertree BC
  10. Liverpool, West Derby BC
  11. St Helens North BC
  12. St Helens South BC
  13. Southport BC
  14. Wallasey BC
  15. Wirral South CC
  16. Wirral West CC

Historic representation by party

A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.

  Birkenhead Social Justice   Change UK   Conservative   Independent   Labour   Liberal   Liberal Democrats

Constituency 1983 86 1987 88 90 90 91 1992 97 1997 2001 2005 07 2010 2015 2017 18 19 19 2019
Knowsley South colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Hughes colspan="9" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |O'Hara
Birkenhead colspan="16" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Field colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | bgcolor="Template:Birkenhead Social Justice Party/meta/color" | bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Whitley
Bootle colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Roberts bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|Carr colspan="9" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|Benton colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Dowd
Knowsley North / and Sefton East (1997) / Knowsley (2010) bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Kilroy-Silk colspan="19" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Howarth
Liverpool Garston / Garston & Halewood (2010) colspan="9" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Loyden colspan="11" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |M. Eagle
Liverpool Riverside colspan="9" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Parry colspan="9" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Ellman bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"| bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Johnson
Liverpool Walton colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Heffer colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Kilfoyle colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Rotheram colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Carden
Liverpool Broadgreen / Liverpool Wavertree (1997) colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Fields colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Kennedy colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Berger bgcolor="Template:Change UK/meta/color" | bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color"| bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|Barker
Liverpool West Derby colspan="12" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Wareing bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Twigg bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"|Byrne
St Helens North colspan="9" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Evans colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Watts colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |McGinn
St Helens South / and Whiston (2010) colspan="10" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Bermingham colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Woodward colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Rimmer
Wallasey colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Chalker colspan="13" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |A. Eagle
Wirral South colspan="8" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Porter colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Chapman colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |McGovern
Crosby / Sefton Central (2010) colspan="9" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Thornton colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Curtis-Thomas colspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Esterson
Wirral West colspan="9" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Hunt colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Hesford bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |McVey colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |Greenwood
Southport colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Percival bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Fearn colspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color" | colspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Banks bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color" |Fearn colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color" |Pugh colspan="5" bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |Moore
Liverpool Mossley Hill colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |Alton colspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color"|

See also

Notes

  1. ^ BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
  2. ^ The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

References

  1. ^ Final Recommendations - Volume 1 Boundary Commission for England