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
[edit]† Conservative ¥ Green ‡ Labour ¤ Reform UK
Boundary changes
[edit]2024
[edit]See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine Merseyside with Cheshire as a sub-region of the North West Region, with the creation of two cross-county boundary constituencies of Ellesmere Port and Bromborough, and Widnes and Halewood, which avoids the need for a constituency which spans the River Mersey. As a consequence, Garston and Halewood was be abolished and Liverpool Garston re-established, and Wirral South was abolished, with its contents being redistributed to Birkenhead, Ellesmere Port and Bromborough, and Wirral West. Four wards in the Lancashire borough of West Lancashire were included in Southport.[1][2]
Name (2010-2024) | Boundaries 2010-2024 | Name (2024-present) | Boundaries 2024-present |
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The following constituencies resulted from the boundary review:
Containing electoral wards from Knowsley
- Knowsley
- Liverpool West Derby (part)
- St Helens South and Whiston (part)
- Widnes and Halewood (part also in Cheshire West and Chester)
Containing electoral wards from Liverpool
- Liverpool Garston
- Liverpool Riverside
- Liverpool Walton (part)
- Liverpool Wavertree
- Liverpool West Derby (part)
Containing electoral wards from St Helens
- St Helens North
- St Helens South and Whiston (part)
Containing electoral wards from Sefton
- Bootle
- Liverpool Walton (part)
- Sefton Central
- Southport (part also in West Lancashire)
Containing electoral wards from Wirral
- Birkenhead
- Ellesmere Port and Bromborough (part also in Cheshire West and Chester)
- Wallasey
- Wirral West
2010
[edit]Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to reduce the number of seats in Merseyside from 16 to 15, leading to significant changes. The two Knowsley seats were abolished, with a single Knowsley constituency created. Parts of Knowsley North and Sefton East were added to the new constituency of Sefton Central, which replaced Crosby, and parts of Knowsley South were added to the new constituency of Garston and Halewood, which replaced Liverpool, Garston.
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Results history
[edit]Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[3]
2019
[edit]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
[edit]Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
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Labour | 39.9 | 47.4 | 51.4 | 61.9 | 58.7 | 53.8 | 52.3 | 61.7 | 71.2 | 65.2 |
Conservative | 35.0 | 28.9 | 29.0 | 19.7 | 20.1 | 19.4 | 21.1 | 18.1 | 21.4 | 20.2 |
Liberal Democrat1 | 23.7 | 23.3 | 16.9 | 14.4 | 17.8 | 22.9 | 20.8 | 5.5 | 4.3 | 5.6 |
Brexit Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4.7 |
Green Party | - | * | * | * | * | * | 0.3 | 3.6 | 1.5 | 2.7 |
UKIP | - | - | - | * | * | * | 3.2 | 10.3 | 1.1 | * |
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
[edit]Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
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Labour | 11 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 |
Conservative | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Liberal Democrat1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 17 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 14 |
11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
Maps
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Historic representation by party
[edit]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.
1983 to 2010
[edit]Conservative Independent Labour Liberal Liberal Democrats
Constituency | 1983 | 86 | 1987 | 88 | 90 | 90 | 91 | 1992 | 97 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 07 |
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Liverpool Mossley Hill | Alton | → | |||||||||||
Birkenhead | Field | ||||||||||||
Bootle | Roberts | Carr | Benton | ||||||||||
Crosby | Thornton | Curtis-Thomas | |||||||||||
Knowsley N / Knowsley N & Sefton E (1997) | Kilroy-Silk | Howarth | |||||||||||
Knowsley South | Hughes | O'Hara | |||||||||||
Liverpool Garston | Loyden | M. Eagle | |||||||||||
Liverpool Broadgreen / Liverpool Wavertree (1997) | Fields | Kennedy | |||||||||||
Liverpool Riverside | Parry | Ellman | |||||||||||
Liverpool Walton | Heffer | Kilfoyle | |||||||||||
Liverpool West Derby | Wareing | → | |||||||||||
Southport | Percival | Fearn | → | Banks | Fearn | Pugh | |||||||
St Helens North | Evans | Watts | |||||||||||
St Helens South | Bermingham | Woodward | |||||||||||
Wallasey | Chalker | A. Eagle | |||||||||||
Wirral South | Porter | Chapman | |||||||||||
Wirral West | Hunt | Hesford |
2010 to present
[edit]Birkenhead Social Justice Change UK Conservative Independent Labour Liberal Democrats
Constituency | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 2019 | 22 | 2024 |
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Birkenhead | Field | → | → | Whitley | McGovern | ||||
Bootle | Benton | Dowd | |||||||
Knowsley | Howarth | Midgley | |||||||
Garston & Halewood1 / Liverpool Garston (2024) | M. Eagle | ||||||||
Liverpool Riverside | Ellman | → | Johnson | ||||||
Liverpool Walton | Rotheram | Carden | |||||||
Liverpool Wavertree | Berger | → | → | Barker | |||||
Liverpool West Derby | Twigg | Byrne | |||||||
St Helens North | Watts | McGinn | → | Baines | |||||
St Helens South & Whiston | Woodward | Rimmer | |||||||
Sefton Central | Esterson | ||||||||
Southport2 | Pugh | Moore | Hurley | ||||||
Wallasey | A. Eagle | ||||||||
Wirral South1 | McGovern | N/A | |||||||
Wirral West | McVey | Greenwood | Patrick |
1parts transferred in 2024 to seats which lie mostly in Cheshire
2contains some areas of Lancashire
See also
[edit]- List of parliamentary constituencies in the North West (region)
- List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Boundary shake-up to bring changes on Merseyside". BBC News. 8 June 2021. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
- ^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. paras 763-814. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
- ^ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".