| Liverpool, Wavertree Borough constituency |
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| 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.
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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.
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:
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, though in the 2005 election the Labour lead over the Liberal Democrats was cut from 38 points to 15 points, and opinion polls have suggested that the Labour lead will be further cut in the 2010 election and that there is an estimated 25% chance of the Liberal Democrats gaining the seat. [1]
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.
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Jane Kennedy | Labour | |
| General Election 1929: Liverpool Wavertree | |||||
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| 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 | |||
| Liverpool Wavertree by-election, 23 June 1931 | |||||
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| 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 | |||||
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| 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 | |||||
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| 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 | |||
| General Election 1945: Liverpool Wavertree | |||||
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| 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 | |||
| General Election 1997: Liverpool Wavertree | |||||
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| 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 | ||||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |
| UKIP | 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 | |||
| General Election 2010: Liverpool Wavertree[1] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour Co-op | Luciana Berger | ||||
| English Radical | David Brennan | ||||
| Liberal Democrat | Colin Eldridge | ||||
| Conservative | Andrew Garnett | ||||
| English Democrats | Derek Grue | ||||
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