Liverpool West Derby (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Liverpool West Derby Borough constituency |
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| Liverpool West Derby shown within Merseyside, and Merseyside shown within England | |
| Created: | 1885 |
| MP: | Robert Wareing |
| Party: | Labour |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Merseyside |
| EP constituency: | North West England |
Liverpool West Derby is a 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.
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[edit] Boundaries
The constituency is one of five covering the city of Liverpool. It covers the north-east of the city, including Croxteth as well as West Derby itself.
[edit] Boundary review
Following their review of parliamentary representation in Merseyside, the Boundary Commission for England has created a modified West Derby constituency, which will be first fought at the next general election.
Their original proposal to create a cross-border "Croxteth and Kirkby" seat (which would have contained with electoral wards from Knowsley borough, as well as from Liverpool) was dropped following public consultation. The electoral wards used in the modified West Derby constituency are:
- Croxteth, Knotty Ash, Norris Green, Tuebrook and Stoneycroft, West Derby and Yew Tree
[edit] History
The seat can be considered a safe seat for the Labour Party, with them having been victorious in every general election since 1964. However, in the early 1980s it was briefly held by the Social Democratic Party after the sitting Labour MP Eric Ogden defected. Labour regained the seat at the 1983 general election, when the current MP Bob Wareing first took office.
Prior to 1964, it was held by the Conservatives, although their share of the vote has declined considerably; so much so that in the 2005 general election they finished in fourth place.
The seat was notable in the general elections of 1997 and 2001 for being the only constituency in England in which a minor party came second, namely the Liberal Party. In the 2005 election, however, the Liberals were pushed into third place by the Liberal Democrats.
[edit] Member of Parliament
Its current Member of Parliament is Bob Wareing of the Labour Party.
- 1885 — 1888: Lord Claud John Hamilton
- 1888 — 1893: William Henry Cross
- 1893 — 1900: Walter Hume Long, later Viscount Long
- 1900 — 1912: Samuel Wasse Higginbottom
- 1903 — 1918: William Watson Rutherford
- 1918 — 1919: Sir Frederick Edwin Smith, later Earl of Birkenhead
- 1919 — 1923: Sir William Reginald Hall
- 1923 — 1924: Charles Sydney Jones
- 1924 — 1935: Sir John Sandeman Allen
- 1935 — 1954: David Maxwell Fyfe, Conservative
- 1954 — 1964: John Woollam, Conservative
- 1964 — 1983: Eric Ogden, Labour (1964 — 1981), SDP (1981 — 1983)
- 1983 — present: Bob Wareing, Labour
[edit] Election results
| General Election 2005: Liverpool West Derby | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Robert Wareing | 19,140 | 62.83 | −3.4 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Patrick Moloney | 3,915 | 12.85 | +2.0 | |
| Liberal | Steve Radford | 3,606 | 11.84 | −3.1 | |
| Conservative | Peter Garrett | 2,567 | 8.43 | +0.4 | |
| Socialist Labour | Kai Anderson | 698 | 2.3 | +2.3 | |
| UK Independence | Peter Baden | 538 | 1.8 | +1.8 | |
| Majority | 15225 | 50.0 | −1.3 | ||
| Turnout | 30464 | 47.16 | +1.7 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -2.7 | |||
| General Election 2001: Liverpool West Derby | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Robert Wareing | 20,454 | 66.2 | ||
| Liberal | Stephen Radford | 4,601 | 14.9 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Patrick Moloney | 3,366 | 10.9 | ||
| Conservative | William Clare | 2,486 | 8.0 | ||
| Majority | 15,853 | 51.3 | |||
| Turnout | 30,907 | ||||
| General Election 1997: Liverpool West Derby | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Robert Wareing | 30,002 | 71.2 | ||
| Liberal | Steve Radford | 4,037 | 9.6 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | A Hines | 3,805 | 9.0 | ||
| Conservative | N Morgan | 3,656 | 8.7 | ||
| Referendum Party | P Forest | 657 | 1.6 | ||
| Majority | 25,965 | 61.6 | |||
| Turnout | 61.3 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
