Linacre (ward)

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Linacre is a Metropolitan Borough of Sefton ward in the Bootle Parliamentary constituency. It covers the area of Bootle historically known as Linacre, including Bootle town centre, the New Strand Shopping Centre, and Gladstone Dock. According to the 2021 census, the ward had a population of 13,601. [1] From the 2026 United Kingdom local elections, the ward will be renamed Bootle West, following minor boundary changes. [2]

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Etymology

The name Linacre derives from Middle English līn ('flax') and aker ('field'), thus once denoting a place associated with a flax-field. [3]

Election results

Elections of the 2020s

Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council Municipal Elections 2024: Linacre [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Joanne Williams140286%
Liberal Democrats David Charles Mellalieu1348%
Conservative Graham Campbell1036%
Majority
Turnout 163918%
Labour hold Swing
Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council Municipal Elections 2023: Linacre [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Fairclough116676%
Green Lily Davies1399%
Independent John Philip Rice1389%
Conservative Anne Clegg916%
Majority
Turnout 153417%
Labour hold Swing

Elections of the 2010s

Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council Municipal Elections 2011: Linacre [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Fairclough175882%
UKIP Robin-Micheal Thompson1919%
Liberal Democrats Colin Anderson1105%
Conservative Thomas James Moylan934%
Majority
Turnout 215228%
Labour hold Swing
Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council Municipal Elections 2010: Linacre [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Gordon Friel269969%
Liberal Democrats Eileen Elizabeth Smith54314%
UKIP Paul Andrew Nuttall 45712%
Conservative Alistair McNeill2115%
Majority
Turnout 391049%
Labour hold Swing

References

  1. ↑ "Ward population 2021". UKcensusdata.com. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  2. ↑ Council, Sefton (2 October 2024). "Local Government Boundary Review of Sefton". www.sefton.gov.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  3. ↑ The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ed. by Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, and Peter McClure, 4 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), III, p. 1592 [s.v. Linacre]; ISBN   978-0-19-967776-4.
  4. ↑ "Election results for Linacre, 2 May 2024". 2 May 2024.
  5. ↑ "Election results for Linacre, 4 May 2023". 4 May 2023.
  6. ↑ "Sefton Council". Modgov.sefton.gov.uk. 5 May 2011. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  7. ↑ "Sefton Council". Modgov.sefton.gov.uk. 6 May 2010. Retrieved 20 May 2016.

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