Liverpool, Wavertree

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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 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
4 Election results
5 See also

Boundaries

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

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

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.

Members of Parliament

Seat created 1918
1918 – 1922: Nathan Raw
1922 – 1923: Sir Harold Smith
1923 – 1924: Hugh Reynolds Rathbone
1924 – 1931: John Abraham Tinne
1931 – 1935: Arthur Nall-Cain
1935 – 1935: Joseph Jackson Cleary
1935 – 1945: Peter Stapleton Shaw
1945 – 1950: Victor Raikes, Conservative
1950 – 1974: Sir John Tilney, Conservative
1974 – 1983: Anthony Steen, Conservative
Seat abolished in 1983; re-created in 1997
1997 – present:Jane Kennedy Labour

Election results

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 \| Crewe and Nantwich \| 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 \| 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: Labour (3) \| Conservative (3) \| Liberal Democrats (2) \| UKIP (1)