Liverpool Toxteth (UK Parliament constituency)
Liverpool Toxteth | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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1950–1983 | |
Number of members | one |
Replaced by | Liverpool Mossley Hill and Liverpool Riverside |
Created from | Liverpool East Toxteth and Liverpool West Toxteth |
Liverpool Toxteth was a borough 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.
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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 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.
- 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.
- 1955-1974: Arundel, Dingle, Princes Park, and St Michael's.
- 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.
Members of Parliament
Elected | Member [1] | Party | |
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1950 | Reginald Bevins | Conservative | |
1964 | Richard Crawshaw | Labour | |
1981 | Social Democratic | ||
1983 | constituency abolished |
Election results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Richard Crawshaw | 14,833 | 54.7 | −2.2 | |
Conservative | A.W. Shone | 8,690 | 32.1 | +2.1 | |
Liberal | Ruth Addison | 3,206 | 11.8 | +0.0 | |
Socialist Unity | P. Adams | 238 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Workers Revolutionary | D. Elliot | 148 | 0.6 | −0.8 | |
Majority | 6,143 | 22.7 | |||
Turnout | 35,805 | 64.8 | +6.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −2.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Richard Crawshaw | 15,312 | 56.9 | +9.2 | |
Conservative | Humfrey Jonathon Malins | 8,062 | 30.0 | +0.8 | |
Liberal | D.L. Mahon | 3,176 | 11.8 | −10.4 | |
Workers Revolutionary | J. Dillon | 365 | 1.4 | +0.5 | |
Majority | 7,250 | 26.9 | |||
Turnout | 26,915 | 58.7 | −7.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +4.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Richard Crawshaw | 14,354 | 47.7 | −6.7 | |
Conservative | Humfrey Jonathon Malins | 8,797 | 29.2 | −16.4 | |
Liberal | Trevor Jones | 6,678 | 22.2 | N/A | |
Workers Revolutionary | W. Hunter | 263 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,557 | 18.5 | |||
Turnout | 30,092 | 66.0 | +3.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +4.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Richard Crawshaw | 15,276 | 54.4 | −2.2 | |
Conservative | Brian Mervyn Keefe | 12,820 | 45.6 | +2.2 | |
Majority | 2,456 | 8.7 | |||
Turnout | 28,096 | 62.3 | −3.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −2.2 |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Richard Crawshaw | 16,488 | 56.6 | +2.2 | |
Conservative | Brian Mervyn Keefe | 12,643 | 43.4 | −2.2 | |
Majority | 3,845 | 13.2 | |||
Turnout | 29,131 | 65.8 | −1.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Richard Crawshaw | 17,080 | 54.4 | +10.0 | |
Conservative | John Reginald Bevins | 14,296 | 45.6 | −10.0 | |
Majority | 2,784 | 8.9 | |||
Turnout | 31,376 | 67.6 | −3.3 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +10.0 |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Reginald Bevins | 19,575 | 55.6 | −0.6 | |
Labour | William H. Sefton | 15,660 | 44.4 | +0.6 | |
Majority | 3,915 | 11.1 | |||
Turnout | 35,235 | 70.9 | +1.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Reginald Bevins | 20,576 | 56.2 | +2.0 | |
Labour | William E. Lawn | 16,037 | 43.8 | −2.0 | |
Majority | 4,539 | 12.4 | |||
Turnout | 36,613 | 69.6 | −7.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Reginald Bevins | 23,254 | 54.2 | +4.7 | |
Labour | William E. Lawn | 19,620 | 45.8 | +2.3 | |
Majority | 3,634 | 8.5 | |||
Turnout | 42,874 | 77.5 | −2.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Reginald Bevins | 21,658 | 49.5 | N/A | |
Labour | Joseph Gibbins | 19,038 | 43.5 | N/A | |
Liberal | Miss Anne Durning Holt | 3,030 | 6.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,620 | 6.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 43,726 | 80.4 | N/A | ||
Conservative win (new seat) |
References
Sources
- 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)
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- Parliamentary constituencies in North West England (historic)
- Historic parliamentary constituencies of Liverpool
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1950
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1983
- Toxteth