Liverpool Wavertree (UK Parliament constituency)

Liverpool Wavertree is a borough constituency of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1997 and every election since has been won by a Labour Party candidate.

Liverpool Wavertree
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Liverpool Wavertree in Merseyside
Location of Merseyside within England
County	Merseyside
Electorate	61,679 (December 2010)[1]
Major settlements	Broad Green, Edge Hill, Wavertree
Current constituency
Created	1997
Member of Parliament	Paula Barker (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Liverpool Broadgreen, Liverpool Mossley Hill
1918–1983
Number of members	One
Type of constituency	Borough constituency
Replaced by	Liverpool Broadgreen, Liverpool Mossley Hill and Liverpool Garston[2]
Created from	Liverpool East Toxteth and Liverpool Walton

An earlier constituency of the same name existed between 1918 and 1983, but lay further to the south-east, and was a predominantly Conservative seat.

Boundaries

Liverpool Wavertree in Lancashire, boundaries used 1974–1983

• 1918–1950: The County Borough of Liverpool wards of Allerton, Childwall and Little Woolton, Garston, Much Woolton, Wavertree, and Wavertree West.
• 1950–1983: The County Borough of Liverpool wards of Broadgreen, Childwall, Church, and Old Swan.
• 1997–2010: The City of Liverpool wards of Broadgreen, Childwall, Church, Kensington, Old Swan, and Picton.
• 2010–present: The City of Liverpool wards of Childwall, Church, Kensington and Fairfield, Old Swan, Picton, and Wavertree.

The constituency is one of five covering the city of Liverpool, and covers the localities in the eastern parts of the city such as Wavertree, Broadgreen, Childwall, Edge Hill, Kensington, Fairfield, part of Mossley Hill and Old Swan.

History

The present Liverpool Wavertree constituency dates from 1997. It contained parts of the former constituencies of Liverpool Broadgreen and Liverpool Mossley Hill. It was held by Jane Kennedy of the Labour Party from 1997-2010, who was also the former MP for Liverpool Broadgreen. At the 2005 general election, the Labour lead over the Liberal Democrats was cut from 38 points to 15 points.[3] At the 2010 general election, Jane Kennedy retired, and Luciana Berger was selected as the official Labour candidate, which caused some friction in the local CLP, especially due to her close connection with Kennedy.[4]

An earlier Liverpool Wavertree constituency existed until 1983; this was further to the south-east in the city and was predominantly a Conservative seat, occasionally with large majorities. It had been created in 1918, but a declining population in the 1970s caused it to be split between Liverpool Garston, the newly-formed Liverpool Broadgreen and Liverpool Mossley Hill constituencies. While the Conservatives have fared badly in the new Wavertree constituency (polling under 7% at the 2005 general election), a direct comparison must take into account the differing boundaries since the 1997 recreation:[3] with more inner-city areas than its previous incarnation, the seat is home to constituents on a lower income than the average in the North West[5] and who are traditionally less sympathetic to Conservative policies. The 2015 general election result made the seat the seventh-safest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.[6]

At the 2010 general election, the Liberal Democrats' targeting of the seat led to a high turnout;[7] however, it was comfortably retained by Labour with a 2.1% swing away from the Liberal Democrats. The unexpected turnout led, unusually, to one polling station running out of ballot papers.[7]

Members of Parliament

Election	Member[8]	Party
1918	Nathan Raw		Coalition Conservative
1922	Sir Harold Smith		Unionist
1923	Hugh Rathbone		Liberal
1924	John Tinné		Unionist
1931 by-election	Ronald Nall-Cain		Conservative
1935 by-election	Joseph Cleary		Labour
1935	Peter Stapleton Shaw		Conservative
1945	Victor Raikes
1950	John Tilney
Feb 1974	Anthony Steen
1983	Constituency abolished
1997	Jane Kennedy		Labour
2010	Luciana Berger		Labour Co-op
2019			Change UK
			Independent
			The Independents
			Liberal Democrats
2019	Paula Barker		Labour

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2019: Liverpool Wavertree[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Paula Barker	31,310	72.2	–7.3
	Conservative	Catherine Mulhern	4,225	9.7	–2.3
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Kemp	4,055	9.3	+2.8
	Brexit Party	Adam Heatherington	1,921	4.4	N/A
	Green	Kay Inckle	1,365	3.1	+1.7
	Liberal	Mick Coyne	501	1.2	N/A
Majority			27,085	62.5	–5.0
Turnout			43,377	68.4	–1.7
	Labour hold		Swing	–2.2

General election 2017: Liverpool Wavertree[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour Co-op	Luciana Berger	34,717	79.5	+10.2
	Conservative	Denise Haddad	5,251	12.0	+2.0
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Kemp	2,858	6.5	+0.5
	Green	Ted Grant	598	1.4	-3.8
	Independent	Adam Heatherington	216	0.5	N/A
Majority			29,466	67.5	+8.2
Turnout			43,640	70.1	+3.7
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing	+4.1

General election 2015: Liverpool Wavertree[11][12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour Co-op	Luciana Berger	28,401	69.3	+16.2
	Conservative	James Pearson	4,098	10.0	+2.5
	UKIP	Adam Heatherington	3,375	8.2	+5.9
	Liberal Democrats	Leo Evans	2,454	6.0	-28.2
	Green	Peter Cranie	2,140	5.2	+3.6
	TUSC	David Walsh	362	0.9	N/A
	Independent	Niamh McCarthy	144	0.4	N/A
Majority			24,303	59.3	+40.4
Turnout			40,974	66.4	+5.8
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing	+6.9

General election 2010: Liverpool Wavertree[13][14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour Co-op	Luciana Berger	20,132	53.1	+0.7
	Liberal Democrats	Colin Eldridge	12,965	34.2	−3.5
	Conservative	Andrew Garnett	2,830	7.5	+1.0
	UKIP	Neil Miney	890	2.3	+0.4
	Green	Rebecca Lawson	598	1.6	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Kim Singleton	200	0.5	−0.2
	BNP	Steven McEllenborough	150	0.4	N/A
Majority			7,167	18.9
Turnout			37,914	60.6	+12.8
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing	+2.1

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2005: Liverpool Wavertree[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Jane Kennedy	18,441	52.4	−10.3
	Liberal Democrats	Colin Eldridge	13,268	37.7	+13.3
	Conservative	Jason W. Steen	2,331	6.6	−3.0
	UKIP	Mark E. Bill	660	1.9	+0.8
	Socialist Labour	Gary Theys	244	0.7	−0.4
	Democratic Socialist Alliance	Paul Filby	227	0.6	−0.5
Majority			5,173	14.7	−23.9
Turnout			35,171	50.8	+6.5
	Labour hold		Swing	−11.8

General election 2001: Liverpool Wavertree[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Jane Kennedy	20,155	62.7	−1.7
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Newby	7,836	24.4	+2.9
	Conservative	Geoffrey Allen	3,091	9.6	−1.2
	Socialist Labour	Michael Lane	359	1.1	N/A
	Socialist Alliance	Mark O'Brien	349	1.1	N/A
	UKIP	Neil Miney	348	1.1	N/A
Majority			12,319	38.3	−4.6
Turnout			32,138	44.3	−18.4
	Labour hold		Swing	−2.3

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1997: Liverpool Wavertree[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Jane Kennedy	29,592	64.4	+23.1
	Liberal Democrats	Richard C. Kemp	9,891	21.5	−13.2
	Conservative	Kit Malthouse	4,944	10.8	−1.7
	Referendum	Peter A. Worthington	576	1.3	N/A
	Liberal	Keith McCullough	391	0.9	N/A
	ProLife Alliance	Racheal A. Kingsley	346	0.8	N/A
	Workers Revolutionary	Carole Corkhill	178	0.4	N/A
Majority			19,701	42.9	N/A
Turnout			45,918	62.7	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1979: Liverpool Wavertree

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Anthony Steen	21,770	50.3
	Labour	Roy Morris	14,828	34.2
	Liberal	C. W. Roberts	6,705	15.5
Majority			6,942	16.0
Turnout				73.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election October 1974: Liverpool Wavertree

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Anthony Steen	18,971	45.85	+2.83
	Labour	Roy Morris	16,216	39.19	+8.10
	Liberal	Anthony Limont	6,193	14.97
Majority			2,755	6.66
Turnout				69.29
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election February 1974: Liverpool Wavertree

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Anthony Steen	19,027	43.02
	Labour	Ian Levin	13,752	31.09
	Liberal	Cyril Carr	11,450	25.89
Majority			5,275	11.93
Turnout				74.80
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1970: Liverpool Wavertree

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Tilney	19,127	46.6
	Liberal	Cyril Carr	11,650	28.4	+11.2
	Labour	Gordon Woodburn	10,253	25.0
Majority			7,477	18.2
Turnout				69.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1966: Liverpool Wavertree

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Tilney	19,179	48.58
	Labour	Robert Ashcroft	13,529	34.27
	Liberal	Cyril Carr	6,771	17.15
Majority			5,650	14.31
Turnout				70.97
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1964: Liverpool Wavertree

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Tilney	20,598	49.45
	Labour	Stanley Thorne	12,338	29.62
	Liberal	Cyril Carr	8,719	20.93
Majority			8,260	19.83
Turnout				73.74
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1959: Liverpool Wavertree

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Tilney	26,624	63.12
	Labour	Milicent Aspin	10,392	24.64
	Liberal	Tom Stuttard Rothwell	5,161	12.24
Majority			16,232	38.49
Turnout				75.75
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1955: Liverpool Wavertree

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Tilney	28,172	69.18
	Labour	Milicent Aspin	12,552	30.82
Majority			15,620	38.36
Turnout				70.84
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1951: Liverpool Wavertree

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Tilney	28,179	58.85
	Labour	William Hamling	19,702	41.15
Majority			8,477	17.70
Turnout				78.32
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1950: Liverpool Wavertree

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Tilney	26,164	52.08
	Labour	William Hamling	18,559	36.94
	Liberal	Thomas John Vernon Parry	5,512	10.97
Majority			7,605	15.14
Turnout				82.42
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General election 1945: Liverpool Wavertree

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Victor Raikes	25,470	48.2	−10.3
	Labour	Derek Maurice Van Abbé	20,249	38.4	−3.1
	Liberal	Leslie Hall Storey	7,063	13.4	N/A
Majority			5,221	9.8	−7.2
Turnout				73.1	−0.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	−3.6

A general election was planned for 1939/1940 but was postponed because of war. By the end of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

• Conservative: Peter Stapleton Shaw
• Labour: Clifford Kenyon
• Liberal: Nelia Muspratt

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1935: Liverpool Wavertree

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Peter Stapleton Shaw	26,915	58.5	+27.3
	Labour	Joseph Cleary	19,068	41.5	+6.1
Majority			7,847	17.0
Turnout			45,983	73.2	+0.9
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+10.6

1935 Liverpool Wavertree by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Joseph Cleary	15,611	35.3	+13.2
	Conservative	James Platt	13,711	31.2	−46.7
	Ind. Conservative	Randolph Churchill	10,575	23.9	N/A
	Liberal	Tudor Artro Morris	4,208	9.5	N/A
Majority			1,840	4.1
Turnout			44,165	72.3	−2.9
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	−30.0

General election 1931: Liverpool Wavertree

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Ronald Nall-Cain	33,476	77.9	+12.9
	Labour	Colin Clark	9,504	22.1	−12.9
Majority			23,972	55.8	+25.8
Turnout			42,980	75.2	-3.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	+12.9

1931 Liverpool Wavertree by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Ronald Nall-Cain	18,687	65.0	+25.0
	Labour	Samuel Lewis Treleaven	10,042	35.0	+2.8
Majority			8,645	30.0	+22.2
Turnout			28,729	51.7	−26.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	11.2

Elections in the 1920s

General election 1929: Liverpool Wavertree

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	John Tinné	16,880	40.0	−7.4
	Labour	Samuel Lewis Treleaven	13,585	32.2	−2.8
	Liberal	Hugh Rathbone	11,723	27.8	+10.2
Majority			3,295	7.8	−4.6
Turnout			42,188	78.1	−2.2
Registered electors			53,989
	Unionist hold		Swing	−2.3

General election 1924: Liverpool Wavertree

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	John Tinné	14,063	47.4	+12.7
	Labour	William Robinson	10,383	35.0	+7.0
	Liberal	Hugh Rathbone	5,206	17.6	−19.7
Majority			3,680	12.4	N/A
Turnout			29,652	80.3	+8.4
Registered electors			36,936
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	+16.2

General election 1923: Liverpool Wavertree[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Hugh Rathbone	9,349	37.3	N/A
	Unionist	Harold Smith	8,700	34.7	−26.9
	Labour	James Vint Laughland	7,025	28.0	−10.4
Majority			649	2.6	N/A
Turnout			25,074	71.9	+2.4
Registered electors			34,869
	Liberal gain from Unionist		Swing	N/A

General election 1922: Liverpool Wavertree

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Harold Smith	14,372	61.6	+1.7
	Labour	James Vint Laughland	8,941	38.4	+11.4
Majority			5,431	23.2	−9.7
Turnout			23,313	69.5	+9.0
Registered electors			33,558
	Unionist hold		Swing	−4.9

Elections in the 1910s

General election 1918

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
C	Unionist	Nathan Raw	11,326	59.9	N/A
	Labour	Charles Wilson	5,103	27.0	N/A
	Liberal	Alfred Allen Booth	2,484	13.1	N/A
Majority			6,223	32.9	N/A
Turnout			18,913	60.5	N/A
Registered electors			31,262
	Unionist win (new seat)
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies on Merseyside

Notes and references

Notes

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