Southport (UK Parliament constituency)

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Southport
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
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Boundary of Southport in Merseyside
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Location of Merseyside within England
County Merseyside
Electorate 67,803 (December 2010) [1]
Major settlements Southport
Current constituency
Created 1885
Member of Parliament Damien Moore (Conservative)
SeatsOne
Created from South West Lancashire

Southport is a constituency [n 1] in Merseyside which has been represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Damien Moore of the Conservative Party. [n 2]

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Boundaries

Southport (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of current boundaries
Southport in Lancashire, boundaries used 1974-83 Southport1974Constituency.svg
Southport in Lancashire, boundaries used 1974-83

1885–1918: The Borough of Southport, the Sessional Division of Southport, and the parishes of Blundell, Great and Little Crosby, Ince, and Thornton.

1918–1983: The County Borough of Southport.

1983–present: The Metropolitan Borough of Sefton wards of Ainsdale, Birkdale, Cambridge, Dukes, Kew, Meols, and Norwood.

The constituency covers the whole town of Southport and the localities of Ainsdale, Birkdale, Blowick, Churchtown, Crossens, Highpark, Hillside, Kew, Marshside, Meols Cop, and Woodvale. It is bordered to the north by South Ribble, to the east by West Lancashire, and to the south by Sefton Central.

Proposed

Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the next general election, due by January 2025, the constituency will be composed of the following wards (as they existed on 1 December 2020):

The four, largely rural, West Lancashire Borough wards will be transferred from South Ribble, offset by the loss of Ainsdale ward to Sefton Central.

Following a local government boundary review in West Lancashire which came into effect in May 2023 [3] [4] , the constituency will now comprise the following from the next general election:

History

Prominent members

In the 19th century a notable representative was George Nathaniel Curzon, future Viceroy of India.

In the 20th century, outside politics, Edward Marshall Hall was a notable trial barrister (KC) and Sir John Fowler Leece Brunner was the son of the leading industrialist Sir John Tomlinson Brunner.

As a frontbencher, long-serving representative Robert Hudson was recognised at the time of World War II as a competent Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries in charge of that department, and was made, to give him a peerage, a viscount. [n 3]

Political history

The constituency has been a Liberal or Conservative seat throughout its history, and marginal for much of this, enabling it to change hands 11 times between the parties since it was created in 1885, having had nine Conservative MPs and eight Liberal or Liberal Democrat MPs in its history.

During the nadir of the Liberal Party (from the 1930s to the 1960s) the constituency became a safe Conservative seat, with absolute majorities from 1931 until 1970 inclusive.

Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott ran for Labour for the seat in 1966 and came in second place.

With the rise again of the Liberal Party in the early 1970s, election results proved to be close contests. The constituency changed hands in the 1987 general election, when it was taken by Ronnie Fearn of the Liberal Party for the SDP-Liberal Alliance (shortly before the two parties merged to form the Liberal Democrats). Fearn had contested the seat unsuccessfully for the Liberals throughout the 1970s.

Fearn lost the seat to the Conservatives' Matthew Banks at the 1992 election (one of the few Conservative gains at that election), only to regain it at the 1997 election. The Liberal Democrats held the seat (under John Pugh after Fearn stood down in 2001) until 2017.

In the 2016 referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union, the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, of which the constituency is a part, voted to remain in the European Union by 51.9%. [6] Given its demography, it is estimated that Southport voted to remain by 54%. [7]

The seat was one of the eight Liberal Democrat seats that survived the national vote share collapse during the 2015 general election, despite a higher-than-average drop in the Liberal Democrats' vote share. Pugh opted not to seek re-election in the 2017 general election, in which election the seat returned to the Conservatives, the only seat the Tories gained from the Liberal Democrats in 2017 (aside from Richmond Park, which they had gained at a 2016 by-election). A resurgent Labour vote pushed the Liberal Democrats into third place for the first time since 1966 with the seat now becoming a Tory-Labour marginal. The seat is the only seat in Merseyside held by the Tories and the only seat in Merseyside to not be held by Labour.

Constituency profile

This is a generally affluent seaside town in the borough of Sefton which has not suffered from significant deprivation compared to its Lancashire counterpart Blackpool. Workless claimants (registered jobseekers) were in November 2012 close to the national average of 3.8%, at 4.0% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian . [8] Southport is home to the notable Royal Birkdale Golf Club, and Ainsdale Beach is part of the Sefton Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [9] Party
1885 George Augustus Pilkington Liberal
1886 George Curzon Conservative
1898 by-election Sir Herbert Naylor-Leyland Liberal
1899 by-election George Augustus Pilkington Liberal
1900 Edward Marshall Hall Conservative
1906 John Meir Astbury Liberal
1910 Godfrey Dalrymple-White Conservative
1923 John Brunner Liberal
1924 Godfrey Dalrymple-White Conservative
1931 Robert Hudson Conservative
1952 by-election Roger Fleetwood-Hesketh Conservative
1959 Ian Percival Conservative
1987 Ronnie Fearn Liberal
1988 Liberal Democrats
1992 Matthew Banks Conservative
1997 Ronnie Fearn Liberal Democrats
2001 John Pugh Liberal Democrats
2017 Damien Moore Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

Next general election: Southport
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Green Edwin Black [10]
Independent Sean Halsall [11]
Liberal Democrats Erin Harvey [12]
Labour Patrick Hurley [13]
Reform UK Andrew Lynn [14]
Conservative Damien Moore [15]
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors
Swing

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2019: Southport [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Damien Moore 22,914 47.6 +8.9
Labour Liz Savage18,76739.0+6.4
Liberal Democrats John Wright6,49913.5―12.9
Majority4,1478.6+2.5
Turnout 48,18068.0―1.1
Conservative hold Swing +1.3
General election 2017: Southport [17]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Damien Moore 18,541 38.7 +10.7
Labour Liz Savage15,62732.6+13.4
Liberal Democrats Sue McGuire12,66126.4―4.6
UKIP Terry Durrance1,1272.4―14.4
Majority2,9146.1N/A
Turnout 47,95669.1+3.6
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats Swing ―1.4
General election 2015: Southport [18] [19]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats John Pugh 13,652 31.0 ―18.6
Conservative Damien Moore 12,33028.0―7.8
Labour Liz Savage8,46819.2+9.8
UKIP Terry Durrance7,42916.8+11.7
Green Laurence Rankin1,2302.8New
Southport PartyJacqueline Barlow9922.2New
Majority1,3223.0―10.8
Turnout 44,10165.5+0.4
Liberal Democrats hold Swing ―5.4
General election 2010: Southport [20]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats John Pugh 21,707 49.6 +3.3
Conservative Brenda Porter15,68335.8―1.2
Labour Jim Conalty4,1169.4―3.4
UKIP Terry Durrance2,2515.1+3.3
Majority6,02413.8+4.5
Turnout 43,75765.1+4.1
Liberal Democrats hold Swing +2.2

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2005: Southport [21]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats John Pugh 19,093 46.3 +2.5
Conservative Mark S. Bigley15,25537.0+0.5
Labour Paul Brant5,27712.8―3.8
UKIP Terry Durrance7491.8+0.5
Your PartyBill Givens5891.4New
Veritas Harry Forster2380.6New
Majority3,8389.3+2.0
Turnout 41,20161.0+1.4
Liberal Democrats hold Swing +1.0
General election 2001: Southport [22]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats John Pugh 18,011 43.8 ―4.3
Conservative Laurence Jones15,00436.5+0.6
Labour Paul Brant6,81616.6+4.5
Liberal David Green7671.9+1.1
UKIP Gerry Kelley5551.3New
Majority3,0077.3―4.9
Turnout 41,15358.6―13.5
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1997: Southport [23]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Ronnie Fearn 24,356 48.1 +6.6
Conservative Matthew Banks 18,18635.9―11.1
Labour Sarah Norman6,12912.1+1.9
Referendum Frank Buckle1,3682.7New
Liberal Susan Ashton3860.8New
Natural Law Elizabeth Lines930.2―0.1
National Democrats Michael Middleton920.2New
Majority6,17012.2N/A
Turnout 50,61072.1―5.5
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing +8.9
General election 1992: Southport [24] [25]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Matthew Banks 26,081 47.0 +2.5
Liberal Democrats Ronnie Fearn 23,01841.5―6.4
Labour James King5,63710.2+3.8
Green Justin Walker5451.0―0.2
Natural Law Geoffrey Clements1590.3New
Majority3,0635.5N/A
Turnout 55,44077.6+1.3
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats Swing +4.5

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1987: Southport [26]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Ronnie Fearn 26,110 47.9 +7.4
Conservative Nigel Thomas24,26144.5―5.9
Labour Audrey Moore3,4836.4―1.9
Green Justin Walker6531.2New
Majority1,8493.4N/A
Turnout 54,50776.3+3.8
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +6.7
General election 1983: Southport [27]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ian Percival 25,612 50.4 ―0.4
Liberal Iain Brodie Browne20,57340.5+2.5
Labour Francis Brady4,2338.3―2.9
Independent Kevin Wood3740.7New
Majority5,0399.9―2.9
Turnout 50,79272.5―2.2
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1979: Southport
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ian Percival 25,953 50.8 +3.6
Liberal Ronnie Fearn 19,42638.0+2.3
Labour I.Gari James5,72512.8―4.3
Majority6,52712.8+1.3
Turnout 51,10474.7+1.0
Conservative hold Swing
General election October 1974: Southport
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ian Percival 23,014 47.2 ±0.0
Liberal Ronnie Fearn 17,38735.7―3.9
Labour I.Gari James8,32317.1+3.9
Majority5,62711.5+3.9
Turnout 48,72473.7―3.7
Conservative hold Swing
General election February 1974: Southport
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ian Percival 23,975 47.2 ―3.0
Liberal Ronnie Fearn 20,09339.6+9.4
Labour Peter R. Ward6,69013.2―6.4
Majority3,8827.6―12.4
Turnout 50,75877.4+6.9
Conservative hold Swing ―6.2
General election 1970: Southport
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ian Percival 22,950 50.2 ―0.8
Liberal Ronnie Fearn 13,80930.2+10.5
Labour Bruce George 8,95019.6―9.6
Majority9,14120.0―1.2
Turnout 45,70970.5―2.2
Conservative hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1966: Southport
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ian Percival 22,324 51.0 ―0.9
Labour John Prescott 12,79829.2+4.1
Liberal C. Jack Coleman8,63019.7―3.3
Majority9,52621.8―5.0
Turnout 43,75272.7―3.8
Conservative hold Swing ―2.5
General election 1964: Southport
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ian Percival 23,917 51.9 ―4.1
Labour Leonard Goldwater11,57225.1+4.7
Liberal C. Jack Coleman10,60923.0―0.5
Majority12,34526.8―5.7
Turnout 46,09876.5―0.3
Conservative hold Swing ―4.4

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1959: Southport
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ian Percival 26,905 56.0 ―14.2
Liberal Sam Goldberg11,29223.5+23.5
Labour Charles W Hadfield9,80520.4―9.4
Majority15,61332.5―8.0
Turnout 48,00276.8+8.0
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1955: Southport
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Roger Fleetwood-Hesketh 30,268 70.2 +10.0
Labour Peter Cameron12,82729.8+5.0
Majority17,44140.4+4.9
Turnout 43,09568.8―8.9
Conservative hold Swing +2.5
By-election 1952: Southport
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Roger Fleetwood-Hesketh 24,589 62.0 +1.8
Labour Alan Lever Tillotson11,31028.5+3.7
Liberal Hubert Bentliff 3,7769.5―5.5
Majority13,27933.5―1.9
Turnout 39,675
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1951: Southport
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Robert Hudson 30,388 60.2 +3.9
Labour H Owen Ellis12,53524.8―2.0
Liberal Hubert Bentliff 7,57615.0―1.9
Majority17,85335.4+5.9
Turnout 50,49977.7―4.1
Conservative hold Swing +2.9
General election 1950: Southport
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Robert Hudson 29,766 56.3 +3.6
Labour J P Bonney14,15926.80.0
Liberal Harry Ellington8,93316.9―3.6
Majority15,60729.5+3.6
Turnout 52,85881.8+7.6
Conservative hold Swing +1.8

Elections in the 1940s

General election 1945: Southport
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Robert Hudson 26,792 52.7 -19.5
Labour William Hamling 13,59626.8-1.0
Liberal Robert Martin10,40420.5New
Majority13,19625.9-18.5
Turnout 50,79274.2+3.3
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1935: Southport
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Robert Hudson 29,652 72.2 +3.8
Labour Robert Carrington-Willis11,41927.8New
Majority18,23344.4+7.6
Turnout 41,07170.9-8.8
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1931: Southport
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Robert Hudson 30,307 68.4 +20.1
Liberal Moelwyn Hughes 13,98331.6-7.8
Majority16,32436.8+27.9
Turnout 44,29079.7+0.1
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1920s

General election 1929: Southport
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Unionist Godfrey Dalrymple-White 21,161 48.3 -12.7
Liberal Cecil Ramage 17,22039.4+0.4
Labour Arthur Leonard Williams5,38012.3New
Majority3,9418.9-13.1
Turnout 43,76179.6+0.9
Unionist hold Swing -6.6
General election 1924: Southport
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Unionist Godfrey Dalrymple-White 17,430 61.0 +12.8
Liberal John Brunner 11,15839.0-12.8
Majority6,27222.0N/A
Turnout 28,58878.7+2.8
Unionist gain from Liberal Swing
Brunner Sir John Brunner.jpg
Brunner
General election 1923: Southport
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal John Brunner 13,704 51.8 +5.0
Unionist Thomas Comyn-Platt12,77648.2-5.0
Majority9283.6N/A
Turnout 26,48075.9-0.4
Liberal gain from Unionist Swing +5.0
General election 1922: Southport
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Unionist Godfrey Dalrymple-White 13,733 53.2 -18.8
Liberal John Brunner 12,06846.8New
Majority1,6656.4-37.6
Turnout 25,80176.3+14.7
Unionist hold Swing

Elections in the 1910s

General election 1918: Southport
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
C Unionist Godfrey Dalrymple-White 14,70772.0+19.7
Labour Arthur Greenwood 5,72728.0New
Majority8,98044.0+39.4
Turnout 20,43461.6-24.0
Unionist hold Swing
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.
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Woodcock
General election December 1910: Southport
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Godfrey Dalrymple-White 7,467 52.3 +0.9
Liberal H. B. D. Woodcock 6,79847.7-0.9
Majority6694.6+1.8
Turnout 14,26585.6-3.6
Conservative hold Swing
General election January 1910: Southport
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Godfrey Dalrymple-White 7,637 51.4 +2.3
Liberal Maurice de Forest 7,21848.6-2.3
Majority4192.8N/A
Turnout 14,85589.2+1.9
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing

Elections in the 1900s

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Astbury
General election 1906: Southport [28]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal John Astbury 6,607 50.9 +1.9
Conservative Edward Marshall Hall 6,36749.1-1.9
Majority2401.8N/A
Turnout 12,97487.3+5.0
Registered electors 14,854
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +1.9
General election 1900: Southport [28]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Edward Marshall Hall 5,522 51.0 −3.0
Liberal George Augustus Pilkington 5,31349.0+3.0
Majority2092.0−6.0
Turnout 10,83582.3−0.7
Registered electors 13,164
Conservative hold Swing −3.0

Elections in the 1890s

Pilkington Sir George Pilkington.jpg
Pilkington
By-election 30 May 1899: Southport [28]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal George Augustus Pilkington 5,635 52.7 +6.7
Conservative Charles Balfour 5,05247.3−6.7
Majority5835.4N/A
Turnout 10,68784.4+1.4
Registered electors 12,656
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +6.7
By-election 24 Aug 1898: Southport [28]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Herbert Naylor-Leyland 5,100 51.4 +5.4
Conservative Edward Bootle-Wilbraham 4,82848.6-5.4
Majority2722.8N/A
Turnout 9,92880.1-2.9
Registered electors 12,395
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +5.4
General election 1895: Southport [28]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative George Curzon 5,162 54.0 +0.6
Liberal Herbert Naylor-Leyland 4,39946.0-0.6
Majority7638.0+1.2
Turnout 9,56183.0-1.6
Registered electors 11,523
Conservative hold Swing +0.6
General election 1892: Southport [28]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative George Curzon 4,752 53.4 +0.1
Liberal George Pollard 4,14846.6-0.1
Majority6046.8+0.2
Turnout 8,90084.6+1.8
Registered electors 10,514
Conservative hold Swing +0.1

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1886: Southport [28]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative George Curzon 3,723 53.3 +4.4
Liberal George Augustus Pilkington 3,26246.7-4.4
Majority4616.6N/A
Turnout 6,98582.8-4.0
Registered electors 8,437
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +4.4
General election 1885: Southport [28]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal George Augustus Pilkington 3,741 51.1
Conservative John Edwards-Moss 3,58148.9
Majority1602.2
Turnout 7,32286.8
Registered electors 8,437
Liberal win (new seat)

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.
  3. ↑ This is above the usual barony in the peerage.

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