Liverpool Wavertree (UK Parliament constituency)

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Liverpool Wavertree Borough constituency
Liverpool Wavertree shown within Merseyside, and Merseyside shown within England
Created:	1918, 1997
MP:	Jane Kennedy
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Merseyside
EP constituency:	North West England

Liverpool Wavertree 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.

Contents 1 Boundaries 1.1 Boundary review 2 History 3 Members of Parliament 3.1 MPs 1918-1983 3.2 MPs 1997-present 4 Election results 4.1 Elections in the 1920s 4.2 Elections in the 1930s 4.3 Elections in the 1940s 4.4 Elections in the 1990s 4.5 Elections in the 2000s 5 See also

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency is one of five covering the city of Liverpool, and covers eastern parts of the city. It contains areas such as Broadgreen, Childwall, Old Swan and Knotty Ash as well as Wavertree itself.

[edit] Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Merseyside, the Boundary Commission for England has created a modified Wavertree constitiuency.

The electoral wards used in this future version of Wavertree are:

• Childwall, Church, Kensington and Fairfield, Old Swan, Picton and Wavertree

[edit] History

The present Liverpool Wavertree constituency dates from 1997. Since then it has been held by Jane Kennedy of the Labour Party. The Liberal Democrats are the main challengers to Labour, as is the case in other Liverpool constituencies.

An earlier Liverpool Wavertree constituency existed until 1983; this seat was a safe Conservative seat. While the Conservatives have fared badly in the new Wavertree constituency (polling under 7% in the 2005 general election), it is perhaps not a fair comparison, as the new constituency covers a different area, with more inner-city areas.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] MPs 1918-1983

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Nathan Raw	Coalition Conservative
	1922	Sir Harold Smith	Conservative
	1923	Hugh Reynolds Rathbone	Liberal
	1924	John Abraham Tinne	Conservative
	1931 by-election	Ronald Nall-Cain	Conservative
	1935 by-election	Joseph Jackson Cleary	Labour
	1935	Peter Stapleton Shaw	Conservative
	1945	Victor Raikes	Conservative
	1950	John Tilney	Conservative
	1974	Anthony Steen	Conservative
1983		Constituency abolished

[edit] MPs 1997-present

Election		Member	Party
	1997	Jane Kennedy	Labour
	2001
	2005

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1929: Liverpool Wavertree
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Tinne	16,880	40.0	−7.4
	Labour	S. L. Treleaven	13,585	32.2	−2.8
	Liberal	Hugh Reynolds Rathbone	11,723	27.8	+10.2
Majority			3,295	7.8	−4.6
Turnout			42,188	78.1	−2.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	−2.3

[edit] Elections in the 1930s

Liverpool Wavertree by-election, 23 June 1931
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ronald Nall-Cain	18,687	65.0	+25.0
	Labour	S. L. 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

General Election October 1931: Liverpool Wavertree
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ronald Nall-Cain	33,476	77.9	+12.9
	Labour	C. G. Clark	9,504	22.1	−12.9
Majority			23,972	55.8	+25.8
Turnout			42,980	75.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	+12.9

Liverpool Wavertree by-election, 6 February 1935
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joseph Jackson Cleary	15,611	35.3	+13.2
	Conservative	James Platt	13,711	31.2	−46.7
	Independent Conservative	Randolph Churchill	10,575	23.9	N/A
	Liberal	A.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 November 1935: Liverpool Wavertree
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Shaw	26,915	58.5	+27.3
	Labour	Joseph Jackson 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

[edit] Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Liverpool Wavertree
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Victor Raikes	25,470	48.2	−10.3
	Labour	D. M. Van Abbé	20,249	38.4	−3.1
	Liberal	L. H. Storey	7,063	13.4	N/A
Majority			5,221	9.8	−7.2
Turnout				73.1	−0.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	−3.6

[edit] Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Liverpool Wavertree
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jane Kennedy	29,592	64.4
	Liberal Democrat	Richard Kemp	9,891	21.5
	Conservative	Kit Malthouse	4,944	10.8
	Referendum Party	Peter Worthington	576	1.3
	Liberal	Keith McCullough	391	0.9
	ProLife Alliance	Racheal Kingsley	346	0.8
	Workers' Revolutionary	Carole Corkhill	178	0.4
Majority			19,701	42.9
Turnout			45,918	62.7
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2001: Liverpool Wavertree
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jane Kennedy	20,155	62.7	−1.7
	Liberal Democrat	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
	UK Independence	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

General Election 2005: Liverpool Wavertree
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jane Kennedy	18,441	52.4	-10.3
	Liberal Democrat	Colin Eldridge	13,268	37.7	+13.3
	Conservative	Jason Steen	2,331	6.6	-3.0
	UK Independence	Mark 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

Next United Kingdom general election: Wavertree
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Colin Eldridge

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies on Merseyside

Constituencies in North West England
Labour	Ashton-under-Lyne | Barrow and Furness | Birkenhead | Blackburn | Blackpool North and Fleetwood | Blackpool South | Bolton North East | Bolton South East | Bolton West | Bootle | Burnley | Bury North | Bury South | Carlisle | Chorley | City of Chester | Copeland | Crosby | Denton and Reddish | Eccles | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Halton | Heywood and Middleton | Hyndburn | Knowsley North and Sefton East | Knowsley South | Leigh | Liverpool Garston | Liverpool Riverside | Liverpool Walton | Liverpool Wavertree | Liverpool West Derby | Makerfield | Manchester Blackley | Manchester Central | Manchester Gorton | Morecambe and Lunesdale | Oldham East and Saddleworth | Oldham West and Royton | Pendle | Preston | Rossendale and Darwen | Salford | South Ribble | St Helens North | St Helens South | Stalybridge and Hyde | Stockport | Stretford and Urmston | Wallasey | Warrington North | Warrington South | Weaver Vale | West Lancashire | Wigan | Wirral South | Wirral West | Workington | Worsley | Wythenshawe and Sale East
Conservative	Altrincham and Sale West | Crewe and Nantwich | Congleton | Eddisbury | Fylde | Lancaster and Wyre | Macclesfield | Penrith and The Border | Ribble Valley | Tatton
Liberal Democrat	Cheadle | Hazel Grove | Manchester Withington | Rochdale | Southport | Westmorland and Lonsdale
North West European constituency: Conservative (4) | Labour (3) | Liberal Democrats (1) | UKIP (1)