Garston and Halewood (UK Parliament constituency)
{{Short description|Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 2010-2024}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox UK constituency main
|name = Garston and Halewood
|parliament = uk
|map1 = GarstonHalewood2007
|map2 = EnglandMerseyside
|map_entity = Merseyside
|map_year =
|year = 2010
|abolished = 2024
|type = Borough
|previous = Liverpool Garston, Knowsley South
|next =
|electorate = 71,618 (December 2010){{cite web
|url=http://www.boundarycommissionforengland.org.uk/electoral-figures/electoral-figures.htm
|title=Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England
|date=4 March 2011
|work=2011 Electorate Figures
|publisher=Boundary Commission for England
|access-date=13 March 2011
|url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101106204053/http://www.boundarycommissionforengland.org.uk/electoral-figures/electoral-figures.htm
|archive-date=6 November 2010
}}
|
|towns = Allerton, Cressington, Garston, Halewood, Hunt's Cross
|region = England
|county = Merseyside
|european = North West England
|elects_howmany = One
}}
Garston and Halewood was a constituency{{refn|A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)|group= n}} created in 2010 and was represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Maria Eagle of the Labour Party.{{refn|As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.|group= n}}
Following the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was abolished at the 2024 general election, with the majority (parts in the City of Liverpool) being included in the re-established constituency of Liverpool Garston. Halewood is included in the new constituency of Widnes and Halewood.{{Cite web |title=The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report – North West {{!}} Boundary Commission for England |url=https://boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk/2023-review/2023-review-volume-one-report/the-2023-review-of-parliamentary-constituency-boundaries-in-england-volume-one-report-north-west/ |access-date=2023-07-30 |website=boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk}}
History
;Creation
The seat was created for the 2010 general election during the Boundary Commission for England's review of constituencies.
;Political history
The 2015 re-election of frontbencher Maria Eagle (Lab) made the seat the 11th safest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.{{cite web |url=http://www.ukpolitical.info/labour-mps-elected-2015.htm |title=Labour Members of Parliament 2015 |website=UK Political.info |archive-date=2018-09-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929214847/http://www.ukpolitical.info/labour-mps-elected-2015.htm |url-status=live}}
Boundaries
{{maplink|raw={{Wikipedia:Map data/Garston and Halewood (UK Parliament constituency)}}|frame=yes|frame-height=230|text=Map of boundaries 2010-2024}}
The City of Liverpool wards of Allerton and Hunts Cross, Belle Vale, Cressington, Speke-Garston, and Woolton, and the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley wards of Halewood North, Halewood South, and Halewood West. The boundaries have been drawn to date almost square, favouring neither riverside nor inland reach.
The constituency covers most of the previous Liverpool Garston (part of the city of Liverpool), together with the most southerly part of the borough of Knowsley (previously in the Knowsley South constituency).
Constituency profile
File:Liverpool_Airport_aerial_Coleman.jpg
Two parts of the political division are green — land surrounding its airport (including the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty's archetypal Tudor Speke Hall and grounds) and in the north east, parts of Hough Green and Tarbock Green. The remainder is urban and forms the southern tip of the Merseyside metropolitan county (of mid-size among the 1974-enacted units). The constituency as drawn stretches along the most up-river part of the Mersey Estuary before its brief start between Cheshire and the remainder of its former county of Lancashire, on a near-flat riverside. The history of the City of Liverpool (right) bank of the Mersey witnessed in the late 20th century the ceasing of shipbuilding and a sharp decline in trade, rail distribution and manufacturing prompting mass unemployment. Its now-modest socially rented housing stock alleviated overcrowding of Liverpool. The seat is centred approximately {{convert|5|mi}} from the city centre. The constituency also includes Liverpool Airport
Deprivation is low for the metropolitan county and marginally higher than the region as a whole. As at the 2011 census 60% of housing was owner-occupied (compared to 64.5% in the North West of England region). At the same census 9.1% of households were deprived in three or the maximum of four dimensions measured by the ONS — in the region the figure is 7.0%.[http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk Parish: Key Statistics: Population.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030211201309/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/ |date=11 February 2003 }} (2011 census) Retrieved 2016-05-04.
Members of Parliament
| class="wikitable" | |
| colspan="2"|Election | Member{{Rayment-hc|g|1|date=March 2012}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/elections/results/general_elections|title=General Election Results from the Electoral Commission}}
!Party |
|---|---|
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| 2010 | Labour |
Elections
=Elections in the 2010s=
{{Election box begin|title=General election 2019: Garston and Halewood{{cite web|last=Reeves|first=Tony|url=https://liverpool.gov.uk/media/1358587/garston-halewood-sopn.docx|format=DOCX|title=Statement of Persons Nominated and Notice of Poll|date=November 14, 2019|publisher=Acting Returning Officer|publication-place=Liverpool, England|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211129071457/https://liverpool.gov.uk/media/1358587/garston-halewood-sopn.docx|archive-date=November 29, 2021|access-date=December 24, 2023}}
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Maria Eagle
|votes = 38,578
|percentage = 72.3
|change = ―5.4
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Neva Novaky
|votes = 6,954
|percentage = 13.0
|change = ―4.7
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
|candidate = Kris Brown
|votes = 3,324
|percentage = 6.2
|change = +3.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Brexit Party
|candidate = Jake Fraser
|votes = 2,943
|percentage = 5.5
|change = New
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Green Party of England and Wales
|candidate = Jean-Paul Roberts
|votes = 1,183
|percentage = 2.2
|change = +0.8
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK, 1989)
|candidate = Hazel Williams
|votes = 344
|percentage = 0.6
|change = New
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 31,624
|percentage = 59.3
|change = ―0.7
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 53,326
|percentage = 70.1
|change = ―1.4
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = Labour Party (UK)
|swing = ―0.3
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin |
|title=General election 2017: Garston and Halewood{{cite web|last=Fitzgerald|first=Ged|url=http://liverpool.gov.uk/media/1356173/sopn-nop-garston-halewood.docx|format=DOCX|title=Statement of Persons Nominated and Notice of Poll|date=May 11, 2017|publisher=Acting Returning Officer|publication-place=Liverpool, England|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191014113109/http://liverpool.gov.uk/media/1356173/sopn-nop-garston-halewood.docx|archive-date=October 14, 2019|access-date=December 24, 2023}}}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Maria Eagle
|votes = 41,599
|percentage = 77.7
|change = +8.6
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Adam Marsden
|votes = 9,450
|percentage = 17.7
|change = +4.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
|candidate = Anna Martin
|votes = 1,723
|percentage = 3.2
|change = ―1.5
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Green Party of England and Wales
|candidate = Lawrence Brown
|votes = 750
|percentage = 1.4
|change = ―2.1
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 32,149
|percentage = 60.0
|change = +4.6
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 53,665
|percentage = 71.5
|change = +5.4
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = Labour Party (UK)
|swing = +2.2
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title= General election 2015: Garston and Halewood{{cite web|title=Election Data 2015|url=http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2015.txt|publisher=Electoral Calculus|access-date=17 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017112223/http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2015.txt|archive-date=17 October 2015}}{{cite news
| title = Garston & Halewood
| url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000708
| work = BBC News
| access-date = 10 May 2015}}}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Maria Eagle
|votes = 33,839
|percentage = 69.1
|change = +9.6
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Martin Williams
|votes = 6,693
|percentage = 13.7
|change = ―2.4
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = UK Independence Party
|candidate = Carl Schears
|votes = 4,482
|percentage = 9.2
|change = +5.6
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
|candidate = Anna Martin
|votes = 2,279
|percentage = 4.7
|change = ―15.4
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Green Party of England and Wales
|candidate = Will Ward
|votes = 1,690
|percentage = 3.5
|change = New
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 27,146
|percentage = 55.4
|change = +16.0
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 48,983
|percentage = 66.1
|change = +6.0
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = Labour Party (UK)
|swing = +6.0
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title= General election 2010: Garston and Halewood{{cite web|title=Election Data 2010|url=http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2010.txt|publisher=Electoral Calculus|access-date=17 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130726162034/http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2010.txt|archive-date=26 July 2013}}}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Maria Eagle*
|votes = 25,493
|percentage = 59.5
|change = +1.6
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
|candidate = Paula Keaveney
|votes = 8,616
|percentage = 20.1
|change = ―9.9
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Richard Downey
|votes = 6,908
|percentage = 16.1
|change = +6.3
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = UK Independence Party
|candidate = Tony Hammond
|votes = 1,540
|percentage = 3.6
|change = +1.8
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Respect Party
|candidate = Diana Raby
|votes = 268
|percentage = 0.6
|change = New
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 16,877
|percentage = 39.4
|change = +11.5
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 42,825
|percentage = 60.1
|change = +6.8
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Labour Party (UK)
|swing = ―5.7
}}
{{Election box end}}
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See also
Notes
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References
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External links
- [https://mapit.mysociety.org/area/65900.html Garston and Halewood UK Parliament constituency] (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) at MapIt UK
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