Birkenhead (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Birkenhead Borough constituency |
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| Birkenhead shown within Merseyside, and Merseyside shown within England | |
| Created: | 1861, 1950 |
| MP: | Frank Field |
| Party: | Labour |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Merseyside |
| EP constituency: | North West England |
Birkenhead is a parliamentary 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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[edit] History
Birkenhead was enfranchised in 1861, and the constituency was abolished by the Representation of the People Act 1918 with effect from the 1918 general election. It was then replaced by the new Birkenhead East and Birkenhead West constituencies.
Since the constituency was re-established at the 1950 general election, it has returned only Labour MPs.
[edit] Boundaries
The constituency covers Birkenhead, in the Wirral on Merseyside.
The boundary commission has recommended that Birkenhead gain the entire Prenton ward from Wirral West (the ward is currently shared between the two constituencies). This is unlikely to affect the ward much as although the Prenton Ward contains a lot of large houses, it also contains large ex/local authority estates and has a Birkenhead postal code.
[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] 1861-1918
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1861 | constituency created | ||
| 1861 | John Laird | Conservative | |
| 1874 | David MacIver | Conservative | |
| 1885 | Edward Bruce Hamley | Conservative | |
| 1892 | Arnold Keppel, Viscount Bury | Conservative | |
| 1894 | Elliott Lees | Conservative | |
| 1906 | Henry Harvey Vivian | Lib-Lab | |
| 1910 | Alfred Bigland | Conservative | |
| 1918 | constituency abolished: see Birkenhead East and Birkenhead West | ||
[edit] 1950-present
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1950 | constituency re-established | ||
| 1950 | Percy Collick | Labour | |
| 1964 | Edmund Dell | Labour | |
| 1979 | Frank Field | Labour | |
[edit] Election results
[edit] 2000s
| General Election 2005: Birkenhead | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Frank Field | 18,059 | 65.0 | -5.5 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Stuart Kelly | 5,125 | 18.4 | +5.6 | |
| Conservative | Howard Morton | 4,602 | 16.6 | -0.1 | |
| Majority | 12,934 | 46.5 | |||
| Turnout | 27,786 | 48.7 | +0.4 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -5.6 | |||
| General Election 2001: Birkenhead | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Frank Field | 20,418 | 70.5 | -0.3 | |
| Conservative | Brian Stewart | 4,827 | 16.7 | +1.5 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Roy Wood | 3,722 | 12.8 | +3.8 | |
| Majority | 15,591 | 53.8 | |||
| Turnout | 28,967 | 48.3 | -17.7 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
- Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
