Liverpool Broadgreen (UK Parliament constituency)

Liverpool Broadgreen
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
County Merseyside
1983–1997
Number of members One
Replaced by Liverpool Wavertree
Created from Liverpool Mossley Hill

Liverpool Broadgreen was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Broadgreen suburb of Liverpool. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1983 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election.

Boundaries

The City of Liverpool wards of Broadgreen, Childwall, Kensington, Old Swan, and Tuebrook.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember[1]Party
1983 Terry Fields Labour
1992 Jane Kennedy Labour
1997 constituency abolished

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Liverpool Broadgreen[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Jane Kennedy 18,062 43.2 −3.3
Liberal Democrat Rosie Cooper 11,035 26.4 −9.6
Independent Terry Fields 5,952 14.2 N/A
Conservative Mrs Helen L. Roche 5,405 12.9 −2.6
Liberal Steve Radford 1,211 2.9 N/A
Natural Law Mrs. A. Brennan 149 0.4 N/A
Majority 7,027 16.8 +4.2
Turnout 41,814 69.6 −6.3
Labour hold Swing +3.2

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Liverpool Broadgreen
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Terry Fields 23,262 48.6 +7.7
Liberal Richard Pine 17,215 35.9 +24.7
Conservative Mark Richard Gwyn Seddon 7,413 15.5 −17.1
Majority 6,047 12.6 +4.3
Turnout 47,890 75.9 +3.8
Labour hold Swing −8.5
General Election 1983: Liverpool Broadgreen
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Terry Fields 18,802 40.9 N/A
Conservative Daniel P. Dougherty 15,002 32.6 N/A
Liberal Richard Pine * 7,021 15.3 N/A
Social Democratic Dick Crawshaw * 5,169 11.2 N/A
Majority 3,800 8.3 N/A
Turnout 45,994 72.1 N/A
Labour win (new seat)

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 6)
  2. ↑ "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.

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