Liverpool Broadgreen (UK Parliament constituency)

Liverpool Broadgreen
Former borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	Merseyside
1983–1997
Seats	One
Created from	Liverpool Edge Hill, Liverpool Kirkdale, Liverpool Wavertree and Liverpool West Derby [1]
Replaced by	Liverpool Wavertree and Liverpool West Derby [1]

Liverpool Broadgreen was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Broadgreen suburb of Liverpool. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1983 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election. When the seat was first contested, it was estimated by the BBC and ITN that had it been fought at the previous election in 1979 it would have returned a Conservative MP with majority of 565. ^[2] However, despite the Conservatives winning the 1983 general election with a landslide majority and Labour's support falling for its 1979 level, Labour won Broadgreen with a majority of 3,800. ^[3] Labour would go on to win the seat at every election when it was contested.

Boundaries

The City of Liverpool wards of Broadgreen, Childwall, Kensington, Old Swan, and Tuebrook.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1983	Terry Fields	Labour
	1991		Independent
	1992	Jane Kennedy	Labour
	1997	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1983: Liverpool Broadgreen ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Terry Fields	18,802	40.9
	Conservative	Daniel P. Dougherty	15,002	32.6
	Liberal	Richard Pine	7,021	15.3
	SDP	Dick Crawshaw	5,169	11.2
Majority			3,800	8.3
Turnout			45,994	72.1
	Labour win (new seat)

• Both Crawshaw and Pine were official candidates of their respective local parties and both supported the Alliance between the Liberals and the SDP, however Crawshaw was given endorsement by both national parties.

General election 1987: Liverpool Broadgreen ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Terry Fields	23,262	48.6	+7.7
	Liberal	Richard Pine	17,215	35.9	+20.6
	Conservative	Mark Seddon	7,413	15.5	―17.1
Majority			6,047	12.7	+4.4
Turnout			47,890	75.9	+3.8
	Labour hold		Swing	―8.5

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1992: Liverpool Broadgreen ^{[6] [7]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jane Kennedy	18,062	43.2	―5.4
	Liberal Democrats	Rosie Cooper	11,035	26.4	―9.5
	Independent	Terry Fields	5,952	14.2	New
	Conservative	Helen Roche	5,405	12.9	―2.6
	Liberal	Steve Radford	1,211	2.9	New
	Natural Law	Ann Brennan	149	0.4	New
Majority			7,027	16.8	+4.1
Turnout			41,814	69.6	―6.3
	Labour hold		Swing	+2.2

References

1. "'Liverpool Broadgreen', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
2. The Times Guide to the House of Commons June 1983. London: Times Books. 1983. p. 280. ISBN   0-7230-0255-X.
3. The Times Guide to the House of Commons June 1983. London: Times Books. 1983. p. 157. ISBN   0-7230-0255-X.
4. "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
5. "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
6. "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
7. "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Archived from the original on 26 October 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2010.

• The Times guide to the House of Commons 1983 - 1992