Liverpool Edge Hill (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Liverpool Edge Hill Borough constituency |
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| Created: | 1918 |
| Abolished: | 1983 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
Liverpool Edge Hill was a constituency within the city and metropolitan borough of Liverpool, in the English county of Merseyside, centred around Edge Hill. It was created in 1918 and abolished in 1983.
The seat saw two by-elections, in 1947 and 1979, following the deaths of its incumbent Members of Parliament the second by-election seeing a large swing against Labour who lost the seat to the Liberals - a defeat which overshadowed Labour's defeat in the 1979 General Election.
Half of the constituency formed the new Mossley Hill constituency in 1983 which its outgoing MP David Alton also represented.
Michael Howard, later leader of the Conservative Party, was twice a candidate in the constituency. During that time he started to support Liverpool FC.
[edit] Members of Parliament
- Constituency created 1918
- 1918 - 1923: Sir William Watson Rutherford, Conservative
- 1923 - 1931: John Henry Hayes, Labour
- 1931 - 1935: Sir Hugo Rutherford Bt, Conservative
- 1935 - 1945: A Critchley, Conservative
- 1945 - 1947: Richard Clitherow, Labour
- 1947 - 1979: Sir Arthur Irvine, Labour
- 1979 - 1983: David Alton, Liberal
- Constituency abolished 1983
