Liverpool Fairfield (UK Parliament constituency)

Liverpool Fairfield
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
1918–1950
Number of members one

Liverpool Fairfield was a borough constituency in Liverpool which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918, until it was abolished for the 1950 general election.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
1918 Jack Benn Brunel Cohen Conservative
1931 Sir Edmund Brocklebank Conservative
1945 Arthur Moody Labour
1950 constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Liverpool Fairfield
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Arthur Seymour Moody 14,475 45.8 +8.3
Conservative Sir Edmund Brocklebank 13,328 42.2 −20.3
Liberal William Henry Ledsom 3,816 13.2 N/A
Majority 1,147 3.6
Turnout 31,619 66.0 +4.3
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +14.3

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1935: Liverpool Fairfield

Electorate

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sir Clement Edmund Royds Brocklebank 18,596 62.5 −13.1
Labour Arthur Moody 11,155 37.5 +13.1
Majority 7,441 25.0
Turnout 29,751 61.7 −10.8
Conservative hold Swing −13.1
General Election 1931: Liverpool Fairfield

Electorate

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sir Clement Edmund Royds Brocklebank 24,636 75.6
Labour A. Dodd 7,960 24.4
Majority 16,676 51.2
Turnout 32,596 72.5
Conservative hold Swing

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