County Merseyside Created 1885 Created from Liverpool | Electorate 61,974 (December 2010) Number of members One | |
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Member of parliament Steve Rotheram (Labour) | ||
Liverpool, Walton is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Steve Rotheram of the Labour Party.
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Boundaries
1918-1950: The County Borough of Liverpool wards of Fazakerley, Walton, and Warbreck.
1950-1955: As above plus the civil parish of Aintree in the Rural District of West Lancashire.
1955-1983: As before 1950.
1983-2010: The City of Liverpool wards of Anfield, Breckfield, County, Fazakerley, Melrose, and Warbreck.
2010-present: The City of Liverpool wards of Anfield, Clubmoor, County, Everton, Fazakerley, and Warbreck.
The constituency is one of five covering the city of Liverpool and covers the north-centre of the city thereby taking in Walton, Clubmoor, Orrell Park, Anfield, Everton and Fazakerley. The grounds of Liverpool F.C. (Anfield) and Everton F.C. (Goodison Park), the city's two major football clubs, are in the constituency.
History
Created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Liverpool Walton has been held by the Labour Party since the 1960s, and is the party's safest seat by size of majority. In 2010 and 2015, it had the largest Labour majority in the country by percentage terms. Labour won over 70% of the vote in every general election since 1992, though for many years it a Conservative seat; until 1964, Labour had only gained Walton once, in their landslide victory in 1945; Conservatives candidates for MP have struggled to get 6% in recent elections and have failed to poll second-place since 1992. From 1964 until his death in 1991 the seat was held by the notable left-winger Eric Heffer; the subsequent by-election was won by Peter Kilfoyle, who held the seat until 2010. Steve Rotheram won in 2010, after Kilfoyle had stood down.
In both the 2010 and 2015 general elections, Liverpool Walton also saw the highest share of the vote for a winning candidate in the country, and in the latter election, the 81.3% of the vote won by Rotheram was the highest of any candidate in an election in the UK since 1997.
In 2015, Liverpool Walton was the only English seat where the Conservative candidate lost their deposit.
The constituency voted by a majority for leaving the EU in the referendum of June 2016 in contrast to its MP Steve Rotheram who was an unreserved supporter of remaining in the EU.
Elections in the 1910s
General Election 1914/15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;