Garston and Halewood (UK Parliament constituency)

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Garston and Halewood
Former borough constituency
for the House of Commons
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Boundary of Garston and Halewood in Merseyside
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Location of Merseyside within England
County Merseyside
Electorate 71,618 (December 2010) [1]
Major settlements Allerton, Cressington, Garston, Halewood, Hunt's Cross
2010–2024
SeatsOne
Created from Liverpool Garston, Knowsley South

Garston and Halewood was a constituency [n 1] created in 2010 and was represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Maria Eagle of the Labour Party. [n 2]

Contents

Following the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was abolished at the 2024 general election, with the majority (parts in the City of Liverpool) being included in the re-established constituency of Liverpool Garston . Halewood is included in the new constituency of Widnes and Halewood. [2]

History

Creation

The seat was created for the 2010 general election during the Boundary Commission for England's review of constituencies.

Political history

The 2015 re-election of frontbencher Maria Eagle (Lab) made the seat the 11th safest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority. [3]

Boundaries

Garston and Halewood (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of boundaries 2010-2024

The City of Liverpool wards of Allerton and Hunts Cross, Belle Vale, Cressington, Speke-Garston, and Woolton, and the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley wards of Halewood North, Halewood South, and Halewood West. The boundaries have been drawn to date almost square, favouring neither riverside nor inland reach.

The constituency covers most of the previous Liverpool Garston (part of the city of Liverpool), together with the most southerly part of the borough of Knowsley (previously in the Knowsley South constituency).

Constituency profile

Aerial view of Liverpool John Lennon Airport in 2005 and surrounding semi-urban land forming a southern minority of the seat Liverpool Airport aerial Coleman.jpg
Aerial view of Liverpool John Lennon Airport in 2005 and surrounding semi-urban land forming a southern minority of the seat

Two parts of the political division are green — land surrounding its airport (including the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty's archetypal Tudor Speke Hall and grounds) and in the north east, parts of Hough Green and Tarbock Green. The remainder is urban and forms the southern tip of the Merseyside metropolitan county (of mid-size among the 1974-enacted units). The constituency as drawn stretches along the most up-river part of the Mersey Estuary before its brief start between Cheshire and the remainder of its former county of Lancashire, on a near-flat riverside. The history of the City of Liverpool (right) bank of the Mersey witnessed in the late 20th century the ceasing of shipbuilding and a sharp decline in trade, rail distribution and manufacturing prompting mass unemployment. Its now-modest socially rented housing stock alleviated overcrowding of Liverpool. The seat is centred approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) from the city centre. The constituency also includes Liverpool Airport

Deprivation is low for the metropolitan county and marginally higher than the region as a whole. As at the 2011 census 60% of housing was owner-occupied (compared to 64.5% in the North West of England region). At the same census 9.1% of households were deprived in three or the maximum of four dimensions measured by the ONS — in the region the figure is 7.0%. [4]

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [5] [6] Party
2010 Maria Eagle Labour

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2019: Garston and Halewood [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Maria Eagle 38,578 72.3 ―5.4
Conservative Neva Novaky6,95413.0―4.7
Liberal Democrats Kris Brown3,3246.2+3.0
Brexit Party Jake Fraser2,9435.5New
Green Jean-Paul Roberts1,1832.2+0.8
Liberal Hazel Williams3440.6New
Majority31,62459.3―0.7
Turnout 53,32670.1―1.4
Labour hold Swing ―0.3
General election 2017: Garston and Halewood [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Maria Eagle 41,599 77.7 +8.6
Conservative Adam Marsden9,45017.7+4.0
Liberal Democrats Anna Martin1,7233.2―1.5
Green Lawrence Brown7501.4―2.1
Majority32,14960.0+4.6
Turnout 53,66571.5+5.4
Labour hold Swing +2.2
General election 2015: Garston and Halewood [9] [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Maria Eagle 33,839 69.1 +9.6
Conservative Martin Williams6,69313.7―2.4
UKIP Carl Schears4,4829.2+5.6
Liberal Democrats Anna Martin2,2794.7―15.4
Green Will Ward1,6903.5New
Majority27,14655.4+16.0
Turnout 48,98366.1+6.0
Labour hold Swing +6.0
General election 2010: Garston and Halewood [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Maria Eagle* 25,493 59.5 +1.6
Liberal Democrats Paula Keaveney8,61620.1―9.9
Conservative Richard Downey6,90816.1+6.3
UKIP Tony Hammond1,5403.6+1.8
Respect Diana Raby2680.6New
Majority16,87739.4+11.5
Turnout 42,82560.1+6.8
Labour hold Swing ―5.7
*Served as an MP in the 2005–2010 Parliament

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
  2. ↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.

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References

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  2. ↑ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report – North West | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
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  4. ↑ Parish: Key Statistics: Population. Archived 11 February 2003 at the Wayback Machine (2011 census) Retrieved 2016-05-04.
  5. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 1)
  6. ↑ "General Election Results from the Electoral Commission".
  7. ↑ Reeves, Tony (14 November 2019). "Statement of Persons Nominated and Notice of Poll". Liverpool, England: Acting Returning Officer. Archived from the original (DOCX) on 29 November 2021. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  8. ↑ Fitzgerald, Ged (11 May 2017). "Statement of Persons Nominated and Notice of Poll". Liverpool, England: Acting Returning Officer. Archived from the original (DOCX) on 14 October 2019. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
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