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
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
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 |
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Labour | 463,371 | 65.2% | ![]() |
14 | 0 |
Conservative | 143,431 | 20.2% | ![]() |
1 | 0 |
Liberal Democrats | 39,591 | 5.6% | ![]() |
0 | 0 |
Brexit | 33,392 | 4.7% | new | 0 | 0 |
Greens | 19,371 | 2.7% | ![]() |
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 |
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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 |
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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
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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
- ^ Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (2020-01-28). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis".
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(help) - ^ a b c "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
- ^ "Update: Strengthening Democracy:Written statement - HCWS183". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
- ^ "Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020".
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- ^ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".