List of parliamentary constituencies in Merseyside
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
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]
- Birkenhead
- Bootle
- Garston and Halewood
- Knowsley
- Liverpool Riverside
- Liverpool Wavertree
- Liverpool West Derby
- Sefton Central
- Southport
- St Helens North
- St Helens South and Whiston
- Wallasey
- Wirral West and Bebington
Results
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1983
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1987
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1992
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1997
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2001
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2005
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2010
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2015
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2017
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2019
Constituencies 1997–2010
- Birkenhead BC
- Bootle BC
- Crosby BC
- Knowsley North and Sefton East CC
- Knowsley South CC
- Liverpool, Garston BC
- Liverpool, Riverside BC
- Liverpool, Walton BC
- Liverpool, Wavertree BC
- Liverpool, West Derby BC
- St Helens North BC
- St Helens South BC
- Southport BC
- Wallasey BC
- Wirral South CC
- 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
See also
- List of Parliamentary constituencies in the North West (region)
- List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies
Notes
References
- ^ Final Recommendations - Volume 1 Boundary Commission for England