Liverpool Toxteth (UK Parliament constituency)

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Liverpool Toxteth Borough constituency
Created:	1950
Abolished:	1983
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Liverpool Toxteth was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 4 References

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency was named after the Toxteth district, in the south inner-city area of Liverpool. The city is in the south west of the historic county of Lancashire. It is now (2007) part of the Metropolitan county of Merseyside and the North West of England region.

The constituency was created from the United Kingdom general election, 1950. It included parts of the former Liverpool East Toxteth and Liverpool West Toxteth constituencies.

The constituency comprised the following wards of Liverpool.

1. 1950-1955: Dingle, Princes Park, Sefton Park East, and Sefton Park West. Dingle and Princes Park had formed part of the old West Toxteth division, whilst the two Sefton Park wards were transferred from the old East Toxteth.
2. 1955-1974: Arundel, Dingle, Princes Park, and St Michael's.
3. 1974-1983: Arundel, Dingle, Granby, Princes Park, and St Michael's.

From the United Kingdom general election, 1983 the constituency was abolished. Its territory contributed 53.1% of the new constituency of Liverpool Riverside and 8.6% of Liverpool Mossley Hill. Liverpool Riverside broadly combined the old Scotland Exchange and Toxteth divisions. Scotland Exchange itself was a 1974 amalgamation of two earlier constituencies. This was a result of the long term decline in the population of inner city Liverpool in the latter part of the twentieth century.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Elected		Member	Party
	1950	Rt Hon. (John) Reginald Bevins	Conservative
	1964	Richard Crawshaw	Labour
	1981		Social Democratic
1983		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

[edit] References

• Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
• British Parliamentary Constituencies: A Statistical Compendium, by Ivor Crewe and Anthony Fox (Faber and Faber 1984)
• British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1983)
• Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume IV 1945-1979, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1981)