Liverpool Garston

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Liverpool Garston
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Map of constituency
Boundary of Liverpool Garston in North West England
CountyMerseyside
Electorate70,372 (2023)[1]
Current constituency
Created2024
Member of ParliamentMaria Eagle (Script error: No such module "political party".)
SeatsOne
Created fromGarston and Halewood
1950–2010
Type of constituencyBorough constituency
Created fromPage Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content.
Replaced byGarston and Halewood

Liverpool Garston 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. Since its recreation for the 2024 general election, its MP is Maria Eagle of the Labour Party.

The seat was first established in 1950, but was abolished in 2010, before being re-established in 2024.

Constituency profile

Liverpool Garston is a constituency in Merseyside. It covers the southern neighbourhoods of the city of Liverpool, including Garston, Speke, Hunt's Cross, Allerton, Woolton, Gateacre, Belle Vale and Netherley. Liverpool is a large port city with a history of slave trading and importation of goods for Lancashire's industry. The city underwent economic decline in the 1970s as the docks and manufacturing industries declined in importance, but has experienced regeneration in the 21st century. This constituency has average levels of deprivation and is the wealthiest of Liverpool's five constituencies. Netherley, Belle Vale and Speke are highly-deprived with large quantities of council housing. Speke is located next to a large industrial estate which includes the Jaguar Land Rover and Ford automotive factories, and is also next to Liverpool John Lennon Airport, all of which are significant local employers. Allerton and Gateacre are affluent and suburban in character.[2] House prices in the constituency are higher than the rest of North West England but lower than the national average.[3]

In general, residents of Liverpool Garston have average levels of education, homeownership, income and unemployment.[3][4] A high proportion of residents work in the retail and transport sectors.[5] White people made up 91% of the population at the 2021 census. Like the rest of Liverpool, the percentage of residents identifying as Christian is high and there is a large population of Catholics due to historic Irish migration.[3] At the local city council, the more deprived areas of Netherley, Belle Vale and Speke are represented by Labour Party councillors, the affluent areas of Allerton, Woolton, Gateacre and Hunt's Cross by Liberal Democrats, and Garston by a local independent group. An estimated 58% of voters in Liverpool Garston supported remaining in the European Union in the 2016 referendum, higher than the nationwide figure of 48%.[3]

Boundaries

Historic

Template:Maplink 1950–1955: The County Borough of Liverpool wards of Aigburth, Allerton, Childwall, Garston, Little Woolton, and Much Woolton.

1955–1983: The County Borough of Liverpool wards of Aigburth, Allerton, St Mary's, Speke, and Woolton.[6]

1983–1997: The City of Liverpool wards of Allerton, Netherley, St Mary's, Speke, Valley, and Woolton.

1997–2010: The City of Liverpool wards of Allerton, Grassendale, Netherley, St Mary's, Speke, Valley, and Woolton.

The constituency was one of five covering the city of Liverpool, covering the southern part of the city. As well as Garston, it contained areas such as Allerton, Netherley, Speke and Woolton. Liverpool John Lennon Airport was located in the constituency.

The Liverpool Garston seat was abolished at the 2010 general election following boundary changes. It was replaced with a new Garston and Halewood constituency, also covering part of the Knowsley borough.

Current

Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the re-established constituency was defined as being composed of the following wards of the City of Liverpool as they existed on 1 December 2020:

  • Allerton and Hunts Cross; Belle Vale; Church; Cressington; Speke-Garston; Woolton.[7]

The seat comprises the (former) City of Liverpool wards previously in the abolished constituency of Garston and Halewood, with the addition of Church ward from Liverpool Wavertree.

Liverpool was subject to a comprehensive local government boundary review which came into effect in May 2023.[8][9] As a result, the new constituency boundaries do not align with the revised ward boundaries. The constituency now comprises the following wards or part wards of the City of Liverpool from the 2024 general election:

  • Allerton; Belle Vale; Calderstones; Childwall (small part); Church (small part); Garston; Gateacre (nearly all); Grassendale & Cressington; Mossley Hill (small part); Much Woolton & Hunts Cross; Penny Lane (majority); Speke; Springwood; Woolton Village.[10]

History

Following its 1950 creation, Liverpool Garston was initially a safe Conservative seat, being won by the party by wide margins in the 1950s. It became more marginal in the 1960s and was gained by the Labour Party for the first time at the February 1974 general election. The Conservatives regained the seat amid their national election victory in 1979, but despite retaining Conservative-leaning areas as Allerton and Woolton, boundary changes for the 1983 general election removed the middle-class, Conservative-voting Aigburth area, making the seat notionally Labour again.[11] Labour duly won the seat in 1983 and held it with increasingly large majorities until its abolition in 2010. Its MP since 1997 had been Maria Eagle, who represented the constituency which largely replaced it, the similarly safely Labour Garston and Halewood, between 2010 and 2024, before once again representing Liverpool Garston upon its re-establishment in 2024.

Members of Parliament

Year Member [12] Party
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | 1950 Victor Raikes Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | 1957 Richard Bingham Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | 1966 Tim Fortescue Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | 1974 Eddie Loyden Labour
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | 1979 Malcolm Thornton Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | 1983 Eddie Loyden Labour
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | 1997 Maria Eagle Labour
2010 constituency abolished
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | 2024 Maria Eagle Labour

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

General election 2024: Liverpool Garston[13]
Party Candidate Votes % Page Template:Tooltip/styles.css has no content.Template:Encodefirst
Script error: No such module "Political party". Maria Eagle[14] 24,510 58.4 −11.8
Script error: No such module "Political party". Kiera Hubbard 4,406 10.5 +5.6
Script error: No such module "Political party". Sam Gorst 3,294 7.8 N/A
Script error: No such module "Political party". John Hyland[15] 3,239 7.7 −2.2
Script error: No such module "Political party". Danny Bowman[16] 2,943 7.0 −4.7
Script error: No such module "Political party". Muryam Sheikh[17] 2,816 6.7 +4.0
Script error: No such module "Political party". Alan Tormey 401 1.0 +0.3
Script error: No such module "Political party". Jane Lawrence 272 0.7 N/A
Script error: No such module "Political party". Frank Sweeney 112 0.3 N/A
Majority 20,104 47.9 −10.6
Turnout 41,993 60.6 −9.2
Script error: No such module "Political party". hold Swing

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2005: Liverpool Garston[18]
Party Candidate Votes % Page Template:Tooltip/styles.css has no content.Template:Encodefirst
Script error: No such module "Political party". Maria Eagle 18,900 54.0 ―7.4
Script error: No such module "Political party". Paula Keaveney 11,707 33.5 +10.4
Script error: No such module "Political party". Amber Rudd 3,424 9.8 ―5.7
Script error: No such module "Political party". Kevin Kearney 780 2.2 New
Script error: No such module "Political party". David Oatley 163 0.5 New
Majority 7,193 20.5 ―17.8
Turnout 34,974 54.9 +4.7
Script error: No such module "Political party". hold Swing ―8.9
General election 2001: Liverpool Garston[19]
Party Candidate Votes % Page Template:Tooltip/styles.css has no content.Template:Encodefirst
Script error: No such module "Political party". Maria Eagle 20,043 61.4 +0.1
Script error: No such module "Political party". Paula Keaveney 7,549 23.1 +4.1
Script error: No such module "Political party". Helen Sutton 5,059 15.5 ―0.2
Majority 12,494 38.3 ―4.0
Turnout 32,651 50.2 ―14.8
Script error: No such module "Political party". hold Swing ―2.0

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1997: Liverpool Garston[20]
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Script error: No such module "Political party". Maria Eagle 26,667 61.3 +10.2
Script error: No such module "Political party". Flo Clucas 8,250 19.0 ―2.7
Script error: No such module "Political party". Nigel Gordon-Johnson 6,819 15.7 ―9.2
Script error: No such module "Political party". Frank Dunne 833 1.9 New
Script error: No such module "Political party". Gary Copeland 666 1.5 ―0.7
Script error: No such module "Political party". John Parsons 127 0.3 ―0.2
Script error: No such module "Political party". Stuart Nolan 120 0.3 New
Majority 18,417 42.3 +12.1
Turnout 43,482 65.0 ―5.6
Script error: No such module "Political party". hold Swing +7.7
General election 1992: Liverpool Garston[21][22]
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Script error: No such module "Political party". Eddie Loyden 23,212 57.1 +3.5
Script error: No such module "Political party". John Backhouse 10,933 26.9 +3.0
Script error: No such module "Political party". Charles Roberts 5,398 13.3 ―9.1
Script error: No such module "Political party". William Conrad 894 2.2 New
Script error: No such module "Political party". Peter Chandler 187 0.5 New
Majority 12,279 30.2 +0.5
Turnout 40,624 70.6 ―5.1
Script error: No such module "Political party". hold Swing +0.3

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1987: Liverpool Garston[23]
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Script error: No such module "Political party". Eddie Loyden 24,848 53.6 +7.0
Script error: No such module "Political party". Paul Feather 11,071 23.9 ―14.0
Script error: No such module "Political party". Richard Isaacson 10,370 22.4 +6.9
Script error: No such module "Political party". Kevin Timlin 98 0.2 New
Majority 13,777 29.7 +21.0
Turnout 46,387 75.7 +4.1
Script error: No such module "Political party". hold Swing +10.5
General election 1983: Liverpool Garston[24]
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Script error: No such module "Political party". Eddie Loyden 21,450 46.6
Script error: No such module "Political party". James Ross 17,448 37.9
Script error: No such module "Political party". Rosie Cooper 7,153 15.5
Majority 4,002 8.7
Turnout 46,051 71.6
Script error: No such module "Political party". hold Swing

Note: This constituency underwent major boundary changes in 1983 and so was notionally a hold.

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1979: Liverpool Garston
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Script error: No such module "Political party". Malcolm Thornton 28,105 48.1 +6.0
Script error: No such module "Political party". Eddie Loyden 25,318 43.3 ―4.5
Script error: No such module "Political party". Wilfred John Davidson 4,890 8.4 ―1.7
Script error: No such module "Political party". Terence Kelly 142 0.2 New
Majority 2,787 4.8 N/A
Turnout 58,455 73.8 +1.9
Script error: No such module "Political party". gain from Script error: No such module "Political party". Swing +5.3
General election October 1974: Liverpool Garston
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Script error: No such module "Political party". Eddie Loyden 27,857 47.8 +5.4
Script error: No such module "Political party". David Charles Stanley 24,557 42.1 +0.9
Script error: No such module "Political party". Geoffrey Howard Black 5,865 10.1 ―6.3
Majority 3,300 5.7 +4.5
Turnout 58,299 71.9 ―2.7
Script error: No such module "Political party". hold Swing +2.3
General election February 1974: Liverpool Garston
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Script error: No such module "Political party". Eddie Loyden 25,332 42.4 ―0.7
Script error: No such module "Political party". Nigel Neville Laville 24,651 41.2 ―15.7
Script error: No such module "Political party". Geoffrey Howard Black 9,834 16.4 New
Majority 681 1.2 N/A
Turnout 59,817 74.6 +8.9
Script error: No such module "Political party". gain from Script error: No such module "Political party". Swing +7.4
General election 1970: Liverpool Garston
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Script error: No such module "Political party". Tim Fortescue 28,381 56.9 +2.5
Script error: No such module "Political party". Colin J. Smith 21,456 43.1 ―2.5
Majority 6,925 13.8 +5.0
Turnout 49,837 65.7 ―2.5
Script error: No such module "Political party". hold Swing +2.5

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1966: Liverpool Garston
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Script error: No such module "Political party". Tim Fortescue 24,716 54.4 +4.6
Script error: No such module "Political party". William H. Waldron 20,746 45.6 +9.2
Majority 3,970 8.8 ―4.6
Turnout 45,462 68.2 ―4.7
Script error: No such module "Political party". hold Swing ―2.3
General election 1964: Liverpool Garston
Party Candidate Votes % Page Template:Tooltip/styles.css has no content.Template:Encodefirst
Script error: No such module "Political party". Richard Bingham 24,100 49.8 ―14.7
Script error: No such module "Political party". John D. Hamilton 17,626 36.4 +0.9
Script error: No such module "Political party". Frank Kirk 6,708 13.9 New
Majority 6,474 13.4 ―15.6
Turnout 48,434 72.9 ―1.5
Script error: No such module "Political party". hold Swing ―7.8

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1959: Liverpool Garston
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Script error: No such module "Political party". Richard Bingham 31,441 64.5 +1.0
Script error: No such module "Political party". Brian Crookes 17,284 35.5 ―1.0
Majority 14,157 29.0 +2.0
Turnout 48,725 74.4 +3.4
Script error: No such module "Political party". hold Swing +1.0
1957 Liverpool Garston by-election
Party Candidate Votes % Page Template:Tooltip/styles.css has no content.Template:Encodefirst
Script error: No such module "Political party". Richard Bingham 15,521 49.2 ―14.3
Script error: No such module "Political party". Ian Isidore Levin 11,217 35.6 ―0.9
Script error: No such module "Political party". Arthur Donald Dennis 4,807 15.2 New
Majority 4,304 13.6 ―13.4
Turnout 31,545
Script error: No such module "Political party". hold Swing ―6.7
General election 1955: Liverpool Garston
Party Candidate Votes % Page Template:Tooltip/styles.css has no content.Template:Encodefirst
Script error: No such module "Political party". Victor Raikes 28,130 63.5 ―1.7
Script error: No such module "Political party". Thomas Edward Nixon 16,161 36.5 +1.7
Majority 11,969 27.0 ―3.4
Turnout 44,291 71.0 ―1.7
Script error: No such module "Political party". hold Swing ―1.7
General election 1951: Liverpool Garston
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Script error: No such module "Political party". Victor Raikes 35,650 65.2 +7.6
Script error: No such module "Political party". Alf Morris 19,025 34.8 +3.2
Majority 16,625 30.4 +4.4
Turnout 54,675 80.0 ―4.9
Script error: No such module "Political party". hold Swing +2.2
General election 1950: Liverpool Garston
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Script error: No such module "Political party". Victor Raikes 31,750 57.6
Script error: No such module "Political party". Edgar Hewitt 17,477 31.6
Script error: No such module "Political party". Lyon Blease 5,966 10.8
Majority 14,303 26.0
Turnout 55,163 84.9
Script error: No such module "Political party". win (new seat)

See also

Notes and references

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  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Craig, F.W.S., ed. (1972). Boundaries of parliamentary constituencies 1885-1972. Chichester, Sussex: Political Reference Publications. ISBN 0-900178-09-4.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule 1 Part 5 North West region.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.LGBCE. "Liverpool | LGBCE". www.lgbce.org.uk. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
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  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."New Seat Details - Liverpool Garston". www.electoralcalculus.co.uk. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Waller, Robert (1983). The Almanac of British Politics (1st ed.). London: Croom Helm. p. 117. ISBN 0-7099-2767-3.
  12. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 1)
  13. ^ [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/uk/constituencies/E14001337 Liverpool Garston
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Re-selection as Garston and Halewood Labour candidate". Maria Eagle. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Liberal Democrat Prospective Parliamentary Candidates". Mark Pack. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
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