Liverpool Fairfield (UK Parliament constituency)
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.
Liverpool Fairfield | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1918–1950 | |
Number of members | one |
Replaced by | Liverpool Edge Hill and Liverpool Wavertree |
Created from | Liverpool West Derby and Liverpool Walton |
Boundaries
The County Borough of Liverpool wards of Fairfield and Old Swan, and part of Kensington ward.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1918 | Jack Cohen | Conservative | |
1931 | Sir Edmund Brocklebank | Conservative | |
1945 | Arthur Moody | Labour | |
1950 | constituency abolished |
Elections
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Jack Cohen | 7,698 | 50.6 | ||
C | Liberal | Francis L'Estrange Joseph | 4,188 | 27.5 | |
Labour | George Porter | 3,337 | 21.9 | ||
Majority | 3,510 | 23.1 | |||
Turnout | 15,223 | 54.9 | |||
Unionist win (new seat) | |||||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Jack Cohen | 14,316 | 72.3 | +21.7 | |
Labour | George Porter | 5,478 | 27.7 | +5.8 | |
Majority | 8,838 | 44.6 | +21.5 | ||
Turnout | 19,794 | 64.0 | +9.1 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | +7.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Jack Cohen | Unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Unionist hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Jack Cohen | 14,277 | 62.9 | N/A | |
Labour | Mary Mercer | 8,412 | 37.1 | New | |
Majority | 5,865 | 25.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 22,689 | 72.2 | N/A | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Jack Cohen | 16,436 | 52.9 | -10.0 | |
Labour | John Hamer Sutcliffe | 14,614 | 47.1 | +10.0 | |
Majority | 1,822 | 5.8 | -20.0 | ||
Turnout | 31,050 | 71.9 | -0.3 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | -10.0 |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edmund Brocklebank | 24,636 | 75.6 | +23.7 | |
Labour | A. Dodd | 7,960 | 24.4 | -23.7 | |
Majority | 16,676 | 51.2 | +47.4 | ||
Turnout | 32,596 | 72.5 | +0.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +23.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edmund Brocklebank | 18,596 | 62.5 | −13.1 | |
Labour | Arthur Moody | 11,155 | 37.5 | +13.1 | |
Majority | 7,441 | 25.0 | -26.2 | ||
Turnout | 29,751 | 61.7 | −10.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −13.1 |
General Election 1939/40
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;
- Conservative: Edmund Brocklebank
- Labour: Arthur Moody[2]
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arthur Moody | 14,475 | 45.7 | +18.2 | |
Conservative | Edmund Brocklebank | 13,328 | 42.2 | −20.3 | |
Liberal | William Henry Ledsom | 3,816 | 12.1 | New | |
Majority | 1,147 | 3.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 31,619 | 65.8 | +4.1 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +19.2 | |||
References
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
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