Liverpool Fairfield (UK Parliament constituency)
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Liverpool Fairfield | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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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.
Contents
Boundaries
The County Borough of Liverpool wards of Fairfield and Old Swan, and part of Kensington ward.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1918 | Jack Cohen | Conservative | |
1931 | Sir Edmund Brocklebank | Conservative | |
1945 | Arthur Moody | Labour | |
1950 | constituency abolished |
Elections
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Benn Jack Brunel Cohen | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Unionist hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Benn Jack Brunel Cohen | 16,436 | 52.9 | ||
Labour | John Hamer Sutcliffe | 14,614 | 47.1 | ||
Majority | 1,822 | 5.8 | |||
Turnout | 31,050 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 |
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 |
References
Categories:
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with one unnamed parameter
- Parliamentary constituencies in North West England (historic)
- Historic parliamentary constituencies of Liverpool
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1918
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1950