Liverpool Mossley Hill (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 53°22′59″N 2°54′32″W / 53.383°N 2.909°W

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

Liverpool Mossley Hill was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Mossley Hill suburb of Liverpool. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.

History

The City of Liverpool wards of Aigburth, Church, Grassendale, Picton, and Smithdown.

The constituency was created for the 1983 general election; half of its territory was previously in the abolished constituency of Liverpool Edge Hill.

The constituency returned the same MP throughout its existence: David Alton, initially a Liberal, then a Liberal Democrat from 1988, after the merger with the Social Democratic Party. Alton was first elected to parliament at a by-election in March 1979 for Liverpool Edge Hill, and held that seat until its abolition in 1983.

The constituency was abolished for the 1997 general election; Alton retired from the Commons and was appointed a cross-bench member of the House of Lords, and the Mossley Hill area itself was transferred to the redrawn constituency of Liverpool Riverside, a safe Labour seat.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember[1]Party
1983 David Alton Liberal
1988 Liberal Democrats
1997 constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Liverpool Mossley Hill[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrat David Alton 19,809 47.9 +4.2
Labour Neville S. Bann 17,203 41.6 +2.7
Conservative Stephen Alan Syder 4,269 10.3 −7.2
Natural Law Byron P. Rigby 114 0.3 N/A
Majority 2,606 6.3 +1.4
Turnout 41,395 68.5 −6.6
Liberal Democrat hold Swing +0.7

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Liverpool Mossley Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal David Alton 20,012 43.7 +2.8
Labour Joseph Aidan Davaney 17,786 38.8 +12.0
Conservative Warwick Lightfoot 8,005 17.5 −14.3
Majority 2,226 4.7
Turnout 45,803 75.1
Liberal hold Swing +8.6
General Election 1983: Liverpool Mossley Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal David Alton 18,845 40.9 N/A
Conservative Brian Mervyn Keefe 14,650 31.8 N/A
Labour Andrew Charles Snowden 12,352 26.8 N/A
National Front Mark Andrew Erikson-Rohrer 212 0.5 N/A
Majority 4,195 9.1 N/A
Turnout 46,059 73.4 N/A
Liberal win (new seat)

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 3)
  2. ↑ "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.