Liverpool Garston (UK Parliament constituency)

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Liverpool Garston
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
North West England - Liverpool Garston constituency.svg
Boundary of Liverpool Garston in North West England
County Merseyside
Electorate 70,372 (2023) [1]
Current constituency
Created 2024
Member of Parliament Maria Eagle (Labour)
SeatsOne
Created from Garston and Halewood
1950–2010
Type of constituency Borough constituency
Created from
Replaced by Garston and Halewood

Liverpool Garston is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. Since its recreation for the 2024 general election, its MP is Maria Eagle of the Labour Party.

Contents

The seat was first established in 1950, but was abolished in 2010, before being re-established in 2024.

Boundaries

Historic

Liverpool Garston (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of boundaries from 2024

1950–1955: The County Borough of Liverpool wards of Aigburth, Allerton, Childwall, Garston, Little Woolton, and Much Woolton.

1955–1983: The County Borough of Liverpool wards of Aigburth, Allerton, St Mary's, Speke, and Woolton. [2]

1983–1997: The City of Liverpool wards of Allerton, Netherley, St Mary's, Speke, Valley, and Woolton.

1997–2010: The City of Liverpool wards of Allerton, Grassendale, Netherley, St Mary's, Speke, Valley, and Woolton.

The constituency was one of five covering the city of Liverpool, covering the southern part of the city. As well as Garston, it contained areas such as Allerton, Netherley, Speke and Woolton. Liverpool John Lennon Airport was located in the constituency.

The Liverpool Garston seat was abolished at the 2010 general election following boundary changes. It was replaced with a new Garston and Halewood constituency, also covering part of the Knowsley borough.

Current

Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the re-established constituency was defined as being composed of the following wards of the City of Liverpool as they existed on 1 December 2020:

The seat comprises the (former) City of Liverpool wards previously in the abolished constituency of Garston and Halewood, with the addition of Church ward from Liverpool Wavertree.

Liverpool was subject to a comprehensive local government boundary review which came into effect in May 2023. [4] [5] As a result, the new constituency boundaries do not align with the revised ward boundaries. The constituency now comprises the following wards or part wards of the City of Liverpool from the 2024 general election:

History

Following its 1950 creation, Liverpool Garston was initially a safe Conservative seat, being won by the party by wide margins in the 1950s. It became more marginal in the 1960s and was gained by the Labour Party for the first time at the February 1974 general election. The Conservatives regained the seat amid their national election victory in 1979, but despite retaining Conservative-leaning areas as Allerton and Woolton, boundary changes for the 1983 general election removed the middle-class, Conservative-voting Aigburth area, making the seat notionally Labour again. [7] Labour duly won the seat in 1983 and held it with increasingly large majorities until its abolition in 2010. Its MP since 1997 had been Maria Eagle, who represented the constituency which largely replaced it, the similarly safely Labour Garston and Halewood, between 2010 and 2024, before once again representing Liverpool Garston upon its re-establishment in 2024.

Members of Parliament

YearMember [8] Party
1950 Victor Raikes Conservative
1957 Richard Bingham Conservative
1966 Tim Fortescue Conservative
1974 Eddie Loyden Labour
1979 Malcolm Thornton Conservative
1983 Eddie Loyden Labour
1997 Maria Eagle Labour
2010 constituency abolished
2024 Maria Eagle Labour

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

General election 2024: Liverpool Garston [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Maria Eagle [10] 24,510 58.4 −11.8
Reform UK Kiera Hubbard4,40610.5+5.6
Community Independents Sam Gorst3,2947.8N/A
Liberal Democrats John Hyland [11] 3,2397.7−2.2
Conservative Danny Bowman [12] 2,9437.0−4.7
Green Muryam Sheikh [13] 2,8166.7+4.0
Liberal Alan Tormey4011.0+0.3
Independent Jane Lawrence2720.7N/A
Workers Revolutionary Frank Sweeney1120.3N/A
Majority 20,10447.9−10.6
Turnout 41,99360.6−9.2
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2005: Liverpool Garston [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Maria Eagle 18,900 54.0 ―7.4
Liberal Democrats Paula Keaveney11,70733.5+10.4
Conservative Amber Rudd 3,4249.8―5.7
UKIP Kevin Kearney7802.2New
Workers Revolutionary David Oatley1630.5New
Majority 7,19320.5―17.8
Turnout 34,97454.9+4.7
Labour hold Swing ―8.9
General election 2001: Liverpool Garston [15]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Maria Eagle 20,043 61.4 +0.1
Liberal Democrats Paula Keaveney7,54923.1+4.1
Conservative Helen Sutton5,05915.5―0.2
Majority 12,49438.3―4.0
Turnout 32,65150.2―14.8
Labour hold Swing ―2.0

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1997: Liverpool Garston [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Maria Eagle 26,667 61.3 +10.2
Liberal Democrats Flo Clucas8,25019.0―2.7
Conservative Nigel Gordon-Johnson6,81915.7―9.2
Referendum Frank Dunne8331.9New
Liberal Gary Copeland6661.5―0.7
Natural Law John Parsons1270.3―0.2
Socialist Equality Stuart Nolan1200.3New
Majority 18,41742.3+12.1
Turnout 43,48265.0―5.6
Labour hold Swing +7.7
General election 1992: Liverpool Garston [17] [18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Eddie Loyden 23,212 57.1 +3.5
Conservative John Backhouse10,93326.9+3.0
Liberal Democrats Charles Roberts5,39813.3―9.1
Liberal William Conrad8942.2New
Natural Law Peter Chandler1870.5New
Majority 12,27930.2+0.5
Turnout 40,62470.6―5.1
Labour hold Swing +0.3

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1987: Liverpool Garston [19]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Eddie Loyden 24,848 53.6 +7.0
Conservative Paul Feather11,07123.9―14.0
SDP Richard Isaacson10,37022.4+6.9
Workers Revolutionary Kevin Timlin980.2New
Majority 13,77729.7+21.0
Turnout 46,38775.7+4.1
Labour hold Swing +10.5
General election 1983: Liverpool Garston [20]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Eddie Loyden 21,450 46.6
Conservative James Ross17,44837.9
Liberal Rosie Cooper 7,15315.5
Majority 4,0028.7
Turnout 46,05171.6
Labour hold Swing

Note: This constituency underwent major boundary changes in 1983 and so was notionally a hold.

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1979: Liverpool Garston
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Malcolm Thornton 28,105 48.1 +6.0
Labour Eddie Loyden 25,31843.3―4.5
Liberal Wilfred John Davidson4,8908.4―1.7
Workers Revolutionary Terence Kelly1420.2New
Majority 2,7874.8N/A
Turnout 58,45573.8+1.9
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +5.3
General election October 1974: Liverpool Garston
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Eddie Loyden 27,857 47.8 +5.4
Conservative David Charles Stanley24,55742.1+0.9
Liberal Geoffrey Howard Black5,86510.1―6.3
Majority 3,3005.7+4.5
Turnout 58,29971.9―2.7
Labour hold Swing +2.3
General election February 1974: Liverpool Garston
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Eddie Loyden 25,332 42.4 ―0.7
Conservative Nigel Neville Laville24,65141.2―15.7
Liberal Geoffrey Howard Black9,83416.4New
Majority 6811.2N/A
Turnout 59,81774.6+8.9
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +7.4
General election 1970: Liverpool Garston
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Tim Fortescue 28,381 56.9 +2.5
Labour Colin J. Smith21,45643.1―2.5
Majority 6,92513.8+5.0
Turnout 49,83765.7―2.5
Conservative hold Swing +2.5

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1966: Liverpool Garston
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Tim Fortescue 24,716 54.4 +4.6
Labour William H. Waldron20,74645.6+9.2
Majority 3,9708.8―4.6
Turnout 45,46268.2―4.7
Conservative hold Swing ―2.3
General election 1964: Liverpool Garston
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Richard Bingham 24,100 49.8 ―14.7
Labour John D. Hamilton17,62636.4+0.9
Liberal Frank Kirk6,70813.9New
Majority 6,47413.4―15.6
Turnout 48,43472.9―1.5
Conservative hold Swing ―7.8

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1959: Liverpool Garston
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Richard Bingham 31,441 64.5 +1.0
Labour Brian Crookes17,28435.5―1.0
Majority 14,15729.0+2.0
Turnout 48,72574.4+3.4
Conservative hold Swing +1.0
1957 Liverpool Garston by-election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Richard Bingham 15,521 49.2 ―14.3
Labour Ian Isidore Levin11,21735.6―0.9
Liberal Arthur Donald Dennis4,80715.2New
Majority 4,30413.6―13.4
Turnout 31,545
Conservative hold Swing ―6.7
General election 1955: Liverpool Garston
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Victor Raikes 28,130 63.5 ―1.7
Labour Thomas Edward Nixon16,16136.5+1.7
Majority 11,96927.0―3.4
Turnout 44,29171.0―1.7
Conservative hold Swing ―1.7
General election 1951: Liverpool Garston
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Victor Raikes 35,650 65.2 +7.6
Labour Alf Morris 19,02534.8+3.2
Majority 16,62530.4+4.4
Turnout 54,67580.0―4.9
Conservative hold Swing +2.2
General election 1950: Liverpool Garston
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Victor Raikes 31,750 57.6
Labour Edgar Hewitt17,47731.6
Liberal Lyon Blease 5,96610.8
Majority 14,30326.0
Turnout 55,16384.9
Conservative win (new seat)

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume two: Constituency names, designations and composition – North West". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  2. ↑ Craig, F.W.S., ed. (1972). Boundaries of parliamentary constituencies 1885-1972. Chichester, Sussex: Political Reference Publications. ISBN   0-900178-09-4.
  3. ↑ "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule 1 Part 5 North West region.
  4. ↑ LGBCE. "Liverpool | LGBCE". www.lgbce.org.uk. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
  5. ↑ "The Liverpool (Electoral Changes) Order 2022".
  6. ↑ "New Seat Details - Liverpool Garston". www.electoralcalculus.co.uk. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
  7. ↑ Waller, Robert (1983). The Almanac of British Politics (1st ed.). London: Croom Helm. p. 117. ISBN   0-7099-2767-3.
  8. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 1)
  9. ↑ [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/uk/constituencies/E14001337 Liverpool Garston
  10. ↑ "Re-selection as Garston and Halewood Labour candidate". Maria Eagle . Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  11. ↑ "Liberal Democrat Prospective Parliamentary Candidates". Mark Pack . Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  12. ↑ Danny Bowman FRSA [@DannyBowman10] (3 June 2024). "I am honoured to have been selected as the @Conservatives Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Liverpool Garston. I am determined to work hard for this amazing constituency and address the key issues facing local residents #GE2024" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  13. ↑ "Our Candidates" . Retrieved 2 June 2024.
  14. ↑ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  15. ↑ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  16. ↑ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  17. ↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  18. ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
  19. ↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  20. ↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
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