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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

Further information: 2019 United Kingdom general election

  † Conservative   ‡ Labour

Constituency[nb 1] Electorate[1] Majority[2][nb 2] Member of Parliament[2] Nearest opposition[2] Map
Birkenhead BC 63,762 17,705 bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Mick Whitley‡ bgcolor="Template:Birkenhead Social Justice Party/meta/color" |  Frank Field (Birkenhead Social Justice)
Bootle BC 74,832 34,556 bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Peter Dowd‡ bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Tarsilo Onuluk†
Garston and Halewood BC 76,116 31,624 bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Maria Eagle‡ bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Neva Novaky†
Knowsley BC 84,060 39,942 bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |  George Howarth‡ bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Rushi Millns†
Liverpool, Riverside BC 80,310 37,043 bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Kim Johnson‡ bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Sean Malkeson†
Liverpool, Walton BC 62,628 30,520 bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Dan Carden‡ bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Alex Phillips†
Liverpool, Wavertree BC 63,458 27,085 bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Paula Barker‡ bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Catherine Mulhern†
Liverpool, West Derby BC 65,640 29,984 bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Ian Byrne‡ bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Tom Bradley†
Sefton Central CC 69,760 15,122 bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Bill Esterson‡ bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Wazz Mughal†
Southport BC 70,837 4,147 bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Damien Moore† bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Liz Savage‡
St Helens North BC 75,593 12,209 bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Conor McGinn‡ bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Joel Charles†
St Helens South and Whiston BC 79,058 19,122 bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Marie Rimmer‡ bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Richard Short†
Wallasey BC 66,310 18,322 bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Angela Eagle‡ bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |  James Baker†
Wirral South CC 57,280 6,105 bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Alison McGovern‡ bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Stewart Gardiner†
Wirral West CC 55,550 3,003 bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Margaret Greenwood‡ bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |  Laura Evans†

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

Proposed boundary changes

The Boundary Commission for England submitted their final proposals in respect of the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster Constituencies (the 2018 review) in September 2018. Although the proposals were immediately laid before Parliament they were not brought forward by the Government for approval. Accordingly, they did not come into effect for the 2019 election which took place on 12 December 2019, and which was contested using the constituency boundaries in place since 2010.

Under the terms of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, the Sixth Review was based on reducing the total number of MPs from 650 to 600 and a strict electoral parity requirement that the electorate of all constituencies should be within a range of 5% either side of the electoral quota.

On 24 March 2020, the Minister of State for the Cabinet Office, Chloe Smith, issued a written statement to Parliament setting out the Government's thinking with regard to parliamentary boundaries.[3] Subsequently, the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020[4] was passed into law on 14 December 2020. This formally removed the duty to implement the 2018 review and set out the framework for future boundary reviews. The Act provided that the number of constituencies should remain at the current level of 650, rather than being reduced to 600, while retaining the requirement that the electorate should be no more than +/- 5% from the electoral quota.

The Act specified that the next review should be completed no later than 1 July 2023 and the Boundary Commission formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021.[5] See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.

Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[6]

2019

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Merseyside in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Party Votes % Change from 2017 Seats Change from 2017
Labour 463,371 65.2% Decrease6.0% 14 0
Conservative 143,431 20.2% Decrease1.2% 1 0
Liberal Democrats 39,591 5.6% Increase1.3% 0 0
Brexit 33,392 4.7% new 0 0
Greens 19,371 2.7% Increase1.2% 0 0
Others 11,443 1.6% 0.0% 0 0
Total 710,599 100.0 15

Percentage votes

Election year 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019
Conservative 35.0 28.9 29.0 19.7 20.1 19.4 21.1 18.1 21.4 20.2
Labour 39.9 47.4 51.4 61.9 58.7 53.8 52.3 61.7 71.2 65.2
Liberal Democrat1 23.7 23.3 16.9 14.4 17.8 22.9 20.8 5.5 4.3 5.6
Green Party - * * * * * 0.3 3.6 1.5 2.7
UKIP - - - * * * 3.2 10.3 1.1 *
Brexit Party - - - - - - - - - 4.7
Other 1.4 0.3 2.7 3.9 3.4 3.9 2.2 0.8 0.5 1.6

11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

Seats

Election year 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019
Conservative 5 4 4 0 0 0 1 0 1 1
Labour 12 12 12 15 15 15 13 14 14 14
Liberal Democrat1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0
Total 17 17 17 16 16 16 15 15 15 15

11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

Maps


  • 1983
    1983
  • 1987
    1987
  • 1992
    1992
  • 1997
    1997
  • 2001
    2001
  • 2005
    2005
  • 2010
    2010
  • 2015
    2015
  • 2017
    2017
  • 2019
    2019

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

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. ^ Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (2020-01-28). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ a b c "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
  3. ^ "Update: Strengthening Democracy:Written statement - HCWS183". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
  4. ^ "Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ "2023 Review launched | Boundary Commission for England". Retrieved 2021-01-08.
  6. ^ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".
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