Liverpool Broadgreen (UK Parliament constituency)

Liverpool Broadgreen
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
County	Merseyside
1983 (1983)–1997 (1997)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Liverpool Wavertree
Created from	Liverpool Mossley Hill

Liverpool Broadgreen was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Broadgreen suburb of Liverpool. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1983 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1983	Terry Fields	Labour
	1992	Jane Kennedy	Labour
	1997	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Liverpool Broadgreen
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jane Kennedy	18,062	43.2	−3.3
	Liberal Democrat	Rosie Cooper	11,035	26.4	−9.6
	Independent (Labour-Socialist)	Terry Fields	5,952	14.2	N/A
	Conservative	Mrs Helen Roche	5,405	12.9	−2.6
	Liberal	Steve Radford	1,211	2.9	N/A
	Natural Law	A Brennan	149	0.4	N/A
Majority			7,027	16.8	+4.2
Turnout			41,814	69.6	−6.3
	Labour hold		Swing	+3.2

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Liverpool Broadgreen
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Terry Fields	23,262	48.6	+7.7
	Liberal	Richard Pine	17,215	35.9	+24.7
	Conservative	Mark Seddon	7,413	15.5	-17.1
Majority			6,047	12.6	+4.3
Turnout			47,890	75.9	+3.8
	Labour hold		Swing	-8.5

General Election 1983: Liverpool Broadgreen
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Terry Fields	18,808	40.9
	Conservative	Daniel Dougherty	15,002	32.6
	Liberal	Richard Pine	7,021	15.3
	Social Democrat	Dick Crawshaw	5,169	11.2
Majority			3,800	8.3
Turnout			45,994	72.1

Sources

• The Times guide to the House of Commons 1983 - 1992