Liverpool Riverside was created in 1983, merging most of the old Liverpool Scotland Exchange and Liverpool Toxteth constituencies. I can no longer advocate voting Labour when it risks Corbyn becoming PM. A public inquiry found the number of constituencies needed to be cut from 16 to 15, due to declining population. Politics Quiz, United Kingdom Quiz, election, Liverpool, map, Merseyside, mps, UK Constituencies. 1983–1997: The City of Liverpool wards of Abercromby, Arundel, Dingle, Everton, Granby, and Vauxhall. In the 2001 and 2005 general elections it had the lowest turnout of all constituencies of the UK. I will continue to serve the people of Liverpool Riverside as I have had the honour to do since 1997", http://liverpool.gov.uk/media/1356174/sopn-nop-liverpool-riverside.docx, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liverpool_Riverside_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&oldid=964520224, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 26 June 2020, at 00:19. Top Quizzes Today in Geography. St Helens and Halton topped the leave votes at 58% and 57.4% followed by Warrington, Knowsley and … The Boundary Commission made its final recommendation on Wednesday morning. It is one of the UK’s safest Labour constituencies with over 85% of the population voting for the party. ... One thought on “ Liverpool, Merseyside ” Brogan Bunt says: Tel: 0151 448 1167. The 2005 general election saw much more than the national average swing (+8.1%) to the Liberal Democrat candidate (compared with 3.4% nationwide), however Labour's candidate won more than double that share of the vote, scoring 57%. That party took third place in 2015 behind the highest polling to date for any candidate from the Green Party across Merseyside. In a contest where positions of runner-up candidates greatly changed, turnout exceeded 62% in the 2015 election. ", Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 1), "I have made the truly agonising decision to leave the Labour Party after 55 years. There are eight MEPs in the North West region who represent the interests of the people of Liverpool and consist of members from Green Party, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats and the Brexit Party. A public inquiry found the number of constituencies needed to be cut from 16 to 15, due to declining population.

A provisional recommendation by the Boundary Commission was for the name Liverpool Abercromby, dropped during the local consultations, during which an alternate name of Liverpool Cathedrals was also proposed.

Liverpool Riverside is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Kim Johnson, who is a member of the Labour Party.

In the 2017 General Election, the people of Liverpool, West Derby voted for Stephen Twigg of the Labour Party. Liverpool MPs. Boundary Commission for England, Third Periodic Review, 1983, List of Parliamentary constituencies on Merseyside, "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England", "Can Liverpool Riverside improve its voting turnout? Coordinates: 53°21′18″N 2°56′49″W / 53.355°N 2.947°W / 53.355; -2.947. A public inquiry recommended the number of constituencies were cut, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. Test your knowledge on this geography quiz to see how you do and compare your score to others. A provisional recommendation by the Boundary Commission was for the name Liverpool Abercromby, dropped during the local consultations, during which an alternate name of Liverpool Cathedrals was also proposed. It has decided to keep an under sized constituency in the Wirral.

The average turnout in that year was 59.2%. Liverpool, Riverside was founded in Merseyside in 1983. [2], The area has been held by the Labour Party since the 1964 election (including predecessor seats); 1983—1997 by Robert Parry (ex-MP for Scotland Exchange, from 1974), 1997—2019 by Louise Ellman, and 2019—date by Kim Johnson. The re-investment has been heightened by heavily used high rise buildings by leading architects, principally the Tate Liverpool and an adjoining block, and publicly funded transport and services improvements.

The last time until 2017 that the Conservatives fielded a candidate who achieved second place was in 1992. It is home to two of the world’s greatest football teams, a cultural hub, a musical watershed. [4] This slightly increased to 62.9% in 2017, which remains below the average (the 2017 election had a total turnout of 68.8%), but significantly less so than has previously been the case in the constituency. In the same election the area was one of several urban seats in which the Green Party retained its deposit by its candidate scoring just over 5% of the vote. However, this was still the lowest throughout the United Kingdom which averaged 61.3% with a 1.2% increase.