Waterloo (UK Parliament constituency)

Waterloo
Waterloo
	Former Borough constituency; for the House of Commons
1918–1950
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Crosby
Created from	Southport

Waterloo was a parliamentary constituency centred on the district of Waterloo north of Liverpool in Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

History

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election. It was abolished for the 1950 general election.

The Urban Districts of Great Crosby, Litherland, Little Crosby, and Waterloo with Seaforth.

General election 1918: Waterloo[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
C	Unionist	Albert Buckley	13,255	83.5	n/a
	Labour	Samuel Reeves	2,619	16.5	n/a
Majority			10,636	67.0	n/a
Turnout			15,874		n/a
	Unionist win
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Stewart-Brown

General election 1922: Waterloo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Albert Buckley	12,967	67.3	-16.2
	Liberal	Nessie Stewart-Brown	6,300	32.7	n/a
Majority			6,667	34.6	-32.4
Turnout			19,267	69.4	+2.4
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

General election 1923: Waterloo [2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Malcolm Bullock	10,615	51.2	-16.1
	Liberal	Robert Lowden Connell	9,965	48.4	+16.1
Majority			650	2.4	-32.2
Turnout			20,580
	Unionist hold		Swing	-16.1

General election 1924: Waterloo [3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Malcolm Bullock	15,704	72.0	+20.8
	Labour	George Frank Titt	6,116	28.0	n/a
Majority			9,588	44.0	+41.6
Turnout			21,820
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

Sellars

General election 1929: Waterloo [4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Malcolm Bullock	17,299	52.1	-19.9
	Labour	John Clifford Leigh	8,142	24.5	-3.5
	Liberal	Frederic Aked Sellars	7,728	23.3	n/a
Majority			9,157	27.6	-16.4
Turnout			33,169
	Unionist hold		Swing	-8.2

General election 1945: Waterloo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Malcolm Bullock	19,650	47.4	n/a
	Labour	Philip Vos	13,795	33.3	n/a
	Liberal	Joseph Daniel Weir	7,823	18.8	n/a
	Independent	Cyril Foster	195	0.5	n/a
Majority			5,855	14.1	n/a
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing	-8.2

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