BIRKENHEAD (UK PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCY)

'Birkenhead' is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Contents

History

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

1861-1918

1950-present

Election results

2000s

See also

References

History

Birkenhead was enfranchised in 1861, and the constituency was abolished by the Representation of the People Act 1918 with effect from the 1918 general election. It was then replaced by the new Birkenhead East and Birkenhead West constituencies.
Since the constituency was re-established at the 1950 general election, it has returned only Labour MPs.

Boundaries

The constituency covers Birkenhead, in the Wirral on Merseyside.
The boundary commission has recommended that Birkenhead gain the entire Prenton ward from Wirral West (the ward is currently shared between the two constituencies). This is unlikely to affect the ward much as although the Prenton Ward contains a lot of large houses, it also contains large ex/local authority estates and has a Birkenhead postal code.

Members of Parliament

1861-1918

Election		Member	Party
1861		''constituency created''
	1861	John Laird	Conservative
	1874	David MacIver	Conservative
	1885	Edward Bruce Hamley	Conservative
	1892	Arnold Keppel, Viscount Bury	Conservative
	1894	Elliott Lees	Conservative
	1906	Henry Harvey Vivian	Lib-Lab
	1910	Alfred Bigland	Conservative
1918		''constituency abolished: see Birkenhead East and Birkenhead West''

1950-present

Election		Member	Party
1950		''constituency re-established''
	1950	Percy Collick	Labour
	1964	Edmund Dell	Labour
	1979	Frank Field	Labour

Election results

2000s

See also

★ List of Parliamentary constituencies on Merseyside

References

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★ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, , F. W. S., Craig, Parliamentary Research Services, 1983, ISBN 0-900178-06-X