Liverpool Mossley Hill (UK Parliament constituency)

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

Liverpool Mossley Hill was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Mossley Hill suburb of Liverpool. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.

History

The constituency was created for the 1983 general election; half of its territory was previously in the abolished constituency of Liverpool Edge Hill.

The constituency returned the same MP throughout its existence: David Alton, initially a Liberal, then a Liberal Democrat from 1988, after the merger with the Social Democratic Party. Alton was first elected to parliament at a by-election in March 1979 for Liverpool Edge Hill, and held that seat until its abolition in 1983.

The constituency was abolished for the 1997 general election; Alton retired from the Commons and was appointed a cross-bench member of the House of Lords, and Mossley Hill ward was transferred to the redrawn constituency of Liverpool Riverside, a safe Labour seat.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1983	David Alton	Liberal
	1988		Liberal Democrats
	1997	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Liverpool Mossley Hill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	David Alton	19,809	47.9	+4.2
	Labour	Neville S. Bann	17,203	41.6	+2.7
	Conservative	Stephen A. Syder	4,269	10.3	−7.2
	Natural Law	Byron P. Rigby	114	0.3	N/A
Majority			2,606	6.3	+1.4
Turnout			41,395	68.5	−6.6
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing	+0.7

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Liverpool Mossley Hill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	David Alton	20,012	43.7
	Labour	J Davaney	17,786	38.8
	Conservative	W Lightfoot	8,005	17.5
Majority			2,226	4.7
Turnout				75.1
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1983: Liverpool Mossley Hill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	David Alton	18,845	40.9
	Conservative	B Keefe	14,650	31.8
	Labour	A C Snowden	12,352	26.8
	National Front	M Erikson-Rohrer	212	0.5
Majority			4,195	9.1
Turnout				73.4
	Liberal hold		Swing