Liverpool (UK Parliament constituency)
{{Short description|Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1868–1885}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2024}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}}
{{Infobox UK constituency main
|name = Liverpool
|parliament = uk
|map1 =
|map2 =
|map_entity =
|map_year =
|year = 1295
|abolished = 1885
|type = borough
|elects_howmany = 1295–1868: Two
1868–1885: Three
|previous =
|next = Abercromby, East Toxteth, Everton, Exchange, Kirkdale, Scotland, Walton, West Derby and West Toxteth
|electorate =
|region = England
|county = Lancashire
}}
Liverpool was a borough constituency in the county of Lancashire of the House of Commons for the Parliament of England to 1706 then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885. It was represented by two Members of Parliament (MPs). In 1868, this was increased to three Members of Parliament.
The borough franchise was held by the freemen of the borough. Each elector had as many votes as there were seats to be filled. Votes had to be cast by a spoken declaration, in public, at the hustings. In 1800 there were around 3000 electors, with elections in this seat being nearly always contested.
The borough returned several notable Members of Parliament including Prime Minister George Canning, William Huskisson, President of the Board of Trade, Banastre Tarleton, noted soldier in the American War of Independence and most notably, William Roscoe the abolitionist and Anti Slave Trade campaigner.
The constituency was abolished in 1885, the city being split into nine divisions of Abercromby, East Toxteth, Everton, Exchange, Kirkdale, Scotland, Walton, West Derby and West Toxteth.
History
The borough of Liverpool exercised the privilege of sending two members to Parliament in 1295 and 1307, but then for 240 years the right was wholly suspended. In the first Parliament of Edward VI, which met 4 November 1547, though Elective Franchise was restored to the two Lancashire boroughs of Liverpool and Wigan and has since continued almost without further interruption.
Representation was increased to three Members in 1868 and the constituency abolished in 1885, to be replaced by the nine new constituencies of Abercromby, East Toxteth, Everton, Exchange, Kirkdale, Scotland, Walton, West Derby and West Toxteth.
Members of Parliament
=1295–1640=
=1640–1868=
| class="wikitable" | ||||
| Election | colspan="2"|First member | First party | colspan="2"|Second member | Second party |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1640
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | |style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||
| November 1640
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | Parliamentarian
|rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="3"|John Moore | rowspan="3"|Parliamentarian | ||
| December 1648
|colspan="3"|Wynn excluded in Pride's Purge – seat vacantWynn died in July 1649, and a by-election was held to replace him. | ||||
| October 1649
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"|Thomas Birch | rowspan="2"| | |||
| June 1650
|colspan="3"|Moore died June 1650 – seat left vacant | ||||
| 1653
|colspan="6"|Liverpool was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament | ||||
| 1654
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"|Thomas Birch | rowspan="2"|
|rowspan="2" colspan="3"| Liverpool had only one seat in the First and | |||
| 1656
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | ||||
| January 1659
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | |||
| May 1659
|colspan="6"|Liverpool was unrepresented in the restored Rump | ||||
| April 1660
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"| Sir Gilbert Ireland |rowspan="2"| |style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||
| 1670
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"| Sir William Bucknall |rowspan="2"| | ||||
| 1675
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||
| 1677
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | |style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||
| 1679
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | |style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||
| 1685
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | |style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||
| 1689
|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | Richard Savage, Viscount Colchester | Whig |rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"| Thomas Norris |rowspan="2"| | ||||
| 1694
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"| Thomas Brotherton |rowspan="2"| | ||||
| January 1695
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"| Jasper Maudit |rowspan="2"| | ||||
| November 1695
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"| Sir William Norris, Bt. |rowspan="2"| | ||||
| 1698
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"| William Clayton |rowspan="2"| | ||||
| 1701 (Dec)
|rowspan="6" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | |rowspan="6"| (Sir) Thomas JohnsonKnighted 1708. |rowspan="6"| Whig | ||||
| 1708
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||
| 1710
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||
| 1713
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||
| 1715
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||
| 1722
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"| William Cleiveland |rowspan="2"| | ||||
| 1723
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="2"| Langham Booth |rowspan="2"| | ||||
| April 1724
|rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="3"| Thomas Bootle |rowspan="3"| | ||||
| November 1724
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||
| 1729
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||
| 1734
|rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="3"| Thomas BreretonChanged his surname to Salusbury on inheriting an estate from his father-in-law in 1734. |rowspan="3"| |style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||
| 1754
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||
| 1755
|rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | |rowspan="3"| (Sir) Ellis CunliffeCreated a baronet, March 1759. |rowspan="3"| | ||||
| 1756
|style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||
| 1761
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | |rowspan="2"| Sir William Meredith, Bt. |rowspan="2"| Tory | ||||
| 1767
|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | Tory | ||||
| 1780
|rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | |rowspan="3"| Bamber Gascoyne |rowspan="3"| Tory{{cite book |last=Stooks Smith |first=Henry. |editor=Craig, F. W. S. |editor-link=F. W. S. Craig |title=The Parliaments of England |orig-year=1844–1850 |edition=2nd |year=1973 |publisher=Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn=0-900178-13-2 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/parliamentsofeng0000smit/page/180 180–184] |url=https://archive.org/details/parliamentsofeng0000smit/page/180 }} |style="color:inherit;background-color: white" | | | ||||
| 1784
|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | Whig | ||||
| 1790
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | |rowspan="2"| Banastre Tarleton |rowspan="2"| Tory | ||||
| 1796
|rowspan="6" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | |rowspan="6"| Isaac Gascoyne |rowspan="6"| Tory/Ultra-Tory | ||||
| 1806
|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | Whig | ||||
| 1807
|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | Tory | ||||
| 1812
|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | George CanningThe future Prime Minister (in 1827), the Right Hon. George Canning was also returned in 1812 for the Irish borough of Sligo. He elected to sit for Liverpool. | Tory | ||||
| 1823
|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | | Tory | ||||
| November 1830
|rowspan="4" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Radicals (UK)}}" | |rowspan="4"| William Ewart |rowspan="4"| Radicals{{cite book|author1=Dod, Charles Roger|author2=Dod, Robert Phipps|author-link1=Charles Roger Dod|title=Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Volume 15|date=1847|publisher=Dod's Parliamentary Companion|page=[https://archive.org/details/dodsparliamenta12dodgoog/page/n158 164]|url=https://archive.org/details/dodsparliamenta12dodgoog |via = Internet Archive }}{{cite DNB|wstitle=Ewart, William|volume=18|last=Boase|first=George Clement}}{{cite ODNB| title=Ewart, William (1798–1869) |last= Farrell |first = S. M. |id=9011 |orig-year = 2004 |date = 9 January 2014 |url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-9011 |freearticle=y}}{{cite news |title=Leeds Intelligencer |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000193/18410731/029/0007 |date=31 July 1841|page=7 |via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}{{cite news |title=Dumfries Burghs |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000090/18410710/022/0007|work=Northern Star and Leeds General Advertiser |date=10 July 1841 |page=7 |via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }} | ||||
| May 1831
|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | Evelyn DenisonDenison was also elected for Nottinghamshire, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Liverpool. | Whig | ||||
| October 1831
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Tories (British political party)}}" | |rowspan="4"| Dudley Ryder | Tory | ||||
| 1834
| rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | rowspan="3" | Conservative | ||||
| 1837
|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | ||||
| 1842
|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | ||||
| 1847
|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Peelite}}" | | Peelite{{cite DNB|wstitle=Cardwell, Edward (1813-1886)|last=Smith|first=Goldwin|volume=9}}{{cite web|title=Cardwell, Viscount (UK, 1874 – 1886)|url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/cardwell1874.htm|website=Cracroft's Peerage|publisher=Heraldic Media Limited|date=7 March 2012}}{{cite book|last1=Collins|first1=Neil|title=Politics and Elections in Nineteenth-Century Liverpool|date=2017|publisher=Routledge|location=Abingdon|isbn=978-1-85928-076-8|page=73|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XTUrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA73}}{{cite book|last1=Neal|first1=Frank|title=Sectarian Violence: The Liverpool Experience 1819-1914|date=1988|publisher=Manchester University Press|location=Manchester|isbn=0-7190-1483-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/sectarianviolenc00neal/page/154 154]|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EqfnAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA154|chapter=Heightened Religious Tension|url=https://archive.org/details/sectarianviolenc00neal/page/154}}{{cite web|title=Edward Cardwell|url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095549564|website=Oxford Reference|publisher=Oxford University Press}} |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | | Whig{{cite news|title=Liverpool|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001424/18470731/048/0012|work=Dublin Weekly Nation|date=31 July 1847|page=12|via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}{{cite news|title=Electioneering News|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000038/18470803/015/0004|work=Belfast News-Letter|date=3 August 1847|page=4|via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}{{cite news|title=The Dissolution|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001083/18470723/025/0003|work=Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal|date=23 July 1847|page=3|via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }} | ||||
| 1852
|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | ||||
| 1853
|rowspan="4" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |rowspan="4"| Thomas Horsfall |rowspan="4"| Conservative |style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | ||||
| 1855
|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Whigs (British political party)}}" | |rowspan="2" | Joseph Christopher Ewart | Whig{{cite news|title=Liverpool Election|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000830/18550331/042/0003|work=Newry Examiner and Louth Advertiser|date=31 March 1855|page=3|via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}{{cite news|title=Bell's Weekly Messenger|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001286/18550331/031/0004|date=31 March 1855|page=4|via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }} | ||||
| 1859
|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | Liberal | ||||
| 1865
|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |
=1868–1885=
- Constituency increased to three Members (1868)
| class="wikitable" | ||||||
| Election | colspan="2"|First member | First party | colspan="2"|Second member | Second party | colspan="2"|Third member | Third party |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1868
|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |rowspan="5" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |rowspan="5"| Viscount Sandon |rowspan="5"| Conservative |rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | |rowspan="3"| William Rathbone |rowspan="3"| Liberal | ||||||
| 1873 by-election
|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | ||||||
| Feb 1880 by-election
|rowspan="4" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |rowspan="4"| Edward Whitley |rowspan="4"| Conservative | ||||||
| 1880
|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | Liberal | ||||||
| Aug 1880 by-election
|rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | |rowspan="2"| Lord Claud Hamilton |rowspan="2"| Conservative | ||||||
| 1882 by-election
|style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" | | Liberal | ||||||
| 1885
|colspan="9"|Constituency abolished (Redistribution of Seats Act 1885) |
Elections
{{Expand list|date=August 2008}}
=Pre-1832=
{{Election box begin | title=General election 1830: Liverpool (2 seats){{cite web |last1=Escott |first1=Margaret |title=Liverpool |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/constituencies/liverpool |website=The History of Parliament |access-date=16 April 2020}}}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Tories (British political party)
|candidate = Isaac Gascoyne
|votes = 191
|percentage = 40.5
|change =
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Tories (British political party)
|candidate = William Huskisson
|votes = 188
|percentage = 39.8
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Radicals (UK)
|candidate = George Williams
|votes = 93
|percentage = 19.7
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 95
|percentage = 20.1
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = {{circa|283}}
|percentage = {{circa|5.3}}
|change =
}}
{{Election box Registered electors|
|reg. electors = {{circa|5,350}}
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Tories (British political party)
|swing =
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{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Tories (British political party)
|swing =
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{{Election box end}}
Huskisson's death caused a by-election.
{{Election box begin | title=By-election, 30 November 1830: Liverpool}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Radicals (UK)
|candidate = William Ewart
|votes = 2,215
|percentage = 50.3
|change = +30.6
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Whigs (British political party)
|candidate = Evelyn Denison
|votes = 2,186
|percentage = 49.7
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 29
|percentage = 0.6
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 4,401
|percentage = {{circa|82.3}}
|change = {{circa|+77.0}}
}}
{{Election box Registered electors|
|reg. electors = {{circa|5,350}}
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Radicals (UK)
|loser = Tories (British political party)
|swing = N/A
}}
{{Election box end}}
- The by-election was declared void but no new writ was issued before dissolution
{{Election box begin | title=General election 1831: Liverpool (2 seats)}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Radicals (UK)
|candidate = William Ewart
|votes = 1,919
|percentage = 43.5
|change = +23.8
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Whigs (British political party)
|candidate = Evelyn Denison
|votes = 1,890
|percentage = 42.8
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Tories (British political party)
|candidate = Isaac Gascoyne
|votes = 607
|percentage = 13.7
|change = −66.6
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 2,721
|percentage = {{circa|50.9}}
|change = {{circa|+45.6}}
}}
{{Election box Registered electors|
|reg. electors = {{circa|5,350}}
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 29
|percentage = 0.7
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Radicals (UK)
|loser = Tories (British political party)
|swing = +28.9
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 1,283
|percentage = 29.1
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Whigs (British political party)
|loser = Tories (British political party)
|swing = N/A
}}
{{Election box end}}
Denison was also elected for Nottinghamshire and chose to sit there, causing a by-election.
{{Election box begin | title=By-election, 21 October 1831: Liverpool}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Tories (British political party)
|candidate = Dudley Ryder
|votes = 1,519
|percentage = 69.4
|change = +55.7
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Radicals (UK)
|candidate = Thomas Thornely
|votes = 670
|percentage = 30.6
|change = −12.9
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 849
|percentage = 38.8
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 2,189
|percentage = {{circa|40.9}}
|change = {{circa|−10.0}}
}}
{{Election box Registered electors|
|reg. electors = {{circa|5,350}}
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Tories (British political party)
|loser = Whigs (British political party)
|swing = +34.3
}}
{{Election box end}}
=1832–1868=
{{Election box begin | title=General election 1832: Liverpool (2 seats)}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Radicals (UK)
|candidate = William Ewart
|votes = 4,931
|percentage = 29.8
|change = +8.1
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Tories (British political party)
|candidate = Dudley Ryder
|votes = 4,260
|percentage = 25.8
|change = +19.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Radicals (UK)
|candidate = Thomas Thornely{{cite book |title=The Christian Reform; Or, Unitarian Magazine and Review: New Series, Vol. XVIII |date=1862 |publisher=Edward T. Whitfield |location=London |pages=[https://archive.org/details/christianreform08unkngoog/page/n369 361]–384 |url=https://archive.org/details/christianreform08unkngoog|via= Internet Archive }}{{cite book |last1=Turner |first1=Michael J. |title=Liberty and Liberticide: The Role in Nineteenth-Century British Radicalism |date=2014 |publisher=Lexington Books |location=Lanham |isbn=978-0-7391-7817-1 |page=99 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DXEeAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA99|via= Google Books }}
|votes = 4,096
|percentage = 24.8
|change = +3.1
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Tories (British political party)
|candidate = Howard Douglas
|votes = 3,249
|percentage = 19.6
|change = +12.8
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 8,851
|percentage = 78.4
|change = {{circa|+27.5}}
}}
{{Election box Registered electors|
|reg. electors = 11,283
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 671
|percentage = 4.0
|change = +3.3
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Radicals (UK)
|swing = −3.9
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 164
|percentage = 1.0
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Tories (British political party)
|loser = Whigs (British political party)
|swing = +1.3
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=General election 1835: Liverpool (2 seats)}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Dudley Ryder
|votes = 4,407
|percentage = 27.6
|change = +1.8
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Radicals (UK)
|candidate = William Ewart
|votes = 4,075
|percentage = 25.5
|change = −29.1
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Howard Douglas
|votes = 3,869
|percentage = 24.2
|change = +4.6
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Whigs (British political party)
|candidate = James Morris
|votes = 3,627
|percentage = 22.7
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 8,167
|percentage = 65.4
|change = −13.0
}}
{{Election box Registered electors|
|reg. electors = 12,492
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 332
|percentage = 2.1
|change = +1.1
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
|swing = +8.2
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 206
|percentage = 1.3
|change = −2.7
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Radicals (UK)
|swing = −16.2
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=General election 1837: Liverpool (2 seats)}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Dudley Ryder
|votes = 4,786
|percentage = 26.6
|change = −1.0
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Cresswell Cresswell
|votes = 4,652
|percentage = 25.8
|change = +1.6
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Radicals (UK)
|candidate = William Ewart
|votes = 4,381
|percentage = 24.3
|change = +11.6
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Radicals (UK)
|candidate = Howard Elphinstone
|votes = 4,206
|percentage = 23.3
|change = +10.6
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 271
|percentage = 1.5
|change = −0.6
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 9,091
|percentage = 81.3
|change = +15.9
}}
{{Election box Registered electors|
|reg. electors = 11,179
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
|swing = −6.1
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
|loser = Radicals (UK)
|swing = −4.8
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=General election 1841: Liverpool (2 seats)}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Dudley Ryder
|votes = 5,979
|percentage = 28.7
|change = +2.1
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Cresswell Cresswell
|votes = 5,792
|percentage = 27.8
|change = +2.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Whigs (British political party)
|candidate = Joshua Walmsley
|votes = 4,647
|percentage = 22.3
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Whigs (British political party)
|candidate = Henry Temple
|votes = 4,431
|percentage = 21.3
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 1,145
|percentage = 5.5
|change = +4.0
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 10,425 (est)
|percentage = 67.1 (est)
|change = {{circa|−14.2}}
}}
{{Election box Registered electors|
|reg. electors = 15,539
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
|swing = N/A
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
|swing = N/A
}}
{{Election box end}}
Cresswell resigned after being appointed a judge of the Court of Common Pleas, causing a by-election.
{{Election box begin | title=By-election, 8 February 1842: Liverpool}}
{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Howard Douglas
}}
{{Election box hold with party link no swing|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=General election 1847: Liverpool (2 seats)}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Peelite
|candidate = Edward Cardwell
|votes = 5,581
|percentage = 32.9
|change = New
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Whigs (British political party)
|candidate = Thomas Birch
|votes = 4,882
|percentage = 28.8
|change = −14.8
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Sir Digby Mackworth, 4th Baronet|Digby Mackworth
|votes = 4,089
|percentage = 24.1
|change = −4.6
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = John Manners
|votes = 2,413
|percentage = 14.2
|change = −13.6
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 8,483 (est)
|percentage = 49.9 (est)
|change = −17.2
}}
{{Election box Registered electors|
|reg. electors = 17,004
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 699
|percentage = 4.1
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Peelite
|loser = Conservative Party (UK)
|swing = N/A
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 793
|percentage = 4.7
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Whigs (British political party)
|loser = Conservative Party (UK)
|swing = −2.9
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=General election 1852: Liverpool (2 seats)}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Charles Turner
|votes = 6,693
|percentage = 28.8
|change = +4.7
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = William Forbes Mackenzie
|votes = 6,367
|percentage = 27.4
|change = +13.2
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Peelite
|candidate = Edward Cardwell
|votes = 5,247
|percentage = 22.6
|change = −10.3
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Whigs (British political party)
|candidate = Joseph Christopher Ewart
|votes = 4,910
|percentage = 21.1
|change = −7.7
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 1,120
|percentage = 4.8
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 11,609 (est)
|percentage = 66.6 (est)
|change = +16.7
}}
{{Election box Registered electors|
|reg. electors = 17,433
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
|loser = Peelite
|swing = +6.9
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
|loser = Whigs (British political party)
|swing = +11.1
}}
{{Election box end}}
Election declared void on petition, due to bribery and treating by Mackenzie and Turner, causing a by-election.{{cite news|title=Local and Provincial|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000206/18530730/031/0009|work=Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser|date=30 July 1853|page=9|via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}
{{Election box begin | title=By-election, 9 July 1853: Liverpool (2 seats)}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Thomas Horsfall
|votes = 6,034
|percentage = 34.4
|change = +5.6
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Henry Liddell
|votes = 5,543
|percentage = 31.6
|change = +4.2
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Whigs (British political party)
|candidate = Thomas Erskine Perry{{cite book|last1=Atkinson|first1=Diane|title=The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton|date=2012|publisher=Arrow Books|location=London|isbn=9780099556480|page=390|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Z1U9W5DyzEC&pg=PA390}}{{cite journal|last1=Stubbings|first1=Matthew|title=British Conservatism and the Indian Revolt: The Annexation of Awadh and the Consequences of Liberal Empire, 1856–1858|journal=Journal of British Studies|date=October 2016|volume=55|issue=4|pages=728–749|doi=10.1017/jbr.2016.73|s2cid=152098641}}
|votes = 4,673
|percentage = 26.7
|change = +5.6
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Independent Conservative
|candidate = John Bramley-Moore{{cite news|title=Liverpool Election|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001312/18530711/022/0002|work=The Evening Freeman|date=11 July 1853|page=2|via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}
|votes = 1,274
|percentage = 7.3
|change = New
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 870
|percentage = 4.9
|change = +0.1
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 10,462 (est)
|percentage = 64.7 (est)
|change = −1.9
}}
{{Election box Registered electors|
|reg. electors = 16,182
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
|swing = +1.4
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
|swing = +0.7
}}
{{Election box end}}
Liddell succeeded to the peerage, becoming 2nd Baron Ravensworth and causing a by-election.
{{Election box begin | title=By-election, 29 March 1855: Liverpool}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Whigs (British political party)
|candidate = Joseph Christopher Ewart
|votes = 5,718
|percentage = 57.3
|change = +36.2
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = George Bonham
|votes = 4,262
|percentage = 42.7
|change = −13.5
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 1,456
|percentage = 14.6
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 9,980
|percentage = 56.1
|change = −10.5
}}
{{Election box Registered electors|
|reg. electors = 17,795
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Whigs (British political party)
|loser = Conservative Party (UK)
|swing = +24.9
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=General election 1857: Liverpool (2 seats)}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Thomas Horsfall
|votes = 7,566
|percentage = 36.0
|change = +7.2
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Whigs (British political party)
|candidate = Joseph Christopher Ewart
|votes = 7,121
|percentage = 33.9
|change = +12.8
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Charles Turner
|votes = 6,316
|percentage = 30.1
|change = +2.7
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 10,502 (est)
|percentage = 57.3 (est)
|change = −9.3
}}
{{Election box Registered electors|
|reg. electors = 18,314
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 445
|percentage = 2.1
|change = −2.7
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
|swing = +0.4
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 805
|percentage = 3.8
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Whigs (British political party)
|loser = Conservative Party (UK)
|swing = +1.5
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=General election 1859: Liverpool (2 seats)}}
{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = Joseph Christopher Ewart
}}
{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Thomas Horsfall
}}
{{Election box Registered electors|
|reg. electors = 18,779
}}
{{Election box hold with party link no swing|
|winner = Liberal Party (UK)
}}
{{Election box hold with party link no swing|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=General election 1865: Liverpool (2 seats)}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Thomas Horsfall
|votes = 7,866
|percentage = 34.9
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Samuel Robert Graves
|votes = 7,500
|percentage = 33.3
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = Joseph Christopher Ewart
|votes = 7,160
|percentage = 31.8
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 340
|percentage = 1.5
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 14,843 (est)
|percentage = 72.0 (est)
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box Registered electors|
|reg. electors = 20,618
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
|swing = N/A
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
|loser = Liberal Party (UK)
|swing = N/A
}}
{{Election box end}}
=1868–1885=
Seat increased to three members
{{Election box begin | title=General election 1868: Liverpool (3 seats)}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Samuel Robert Graves
|votes = 16,766
|percentage = 26.5
|change = −6.8
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Dudley Ryder
|votes = 16,222
|percentage = 25.6
|change = −9.3
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = William Rathbone
|votes = 15,337
|percentage = 24.2
|change = +8.3
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = William Nathaniel Massey{{cite news |title=Obituary |work=The Times |location=London |page=9 |date=27 October 1881 }}
|votes = 15,017
|percentage = 23.7
|change = +7.8
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 885
|percentage = 1.4
|change = −0.1
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 31,671 (est)
|percentage = 79.9 (est)
|change = +7.9
}}
{{Election box Registered electors|
|reg. electors = 39,645
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
|swing = −7.6
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
|swing = −8.6
}}
{{Election box new seat win|
|winner = Liberal Party (UK)
}}
{{Election box end}}
Graves' death caused a by-election.
{{Election box begin | title=By-election, 10 February 1873: Liverpool}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = John Torr
|votes = 18,702
|percentage = 52.7
|change = +0.6
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = William Sproston Caine
|votes = 16,790
|percentage = 47.3
|change = −0.6
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 1,912
|percentage = 5.4
|change = +4.0
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 35,492
|percentage = 67.1
|change = −12.8
}}
{{Election box Registered electors|
|reg. electors = 52,912
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
|swing = +0.6
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=General election 1874: Liverpool (3 seats)}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Dudley Ryder
|votes = 20,206
|percentage = 27.0
|change = +1.4
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = John Torr
|votes = 19,763
|percentage = 26.4
|change = −0.1
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = William Rathbone
|votes = 16,706
|percentage = 22.3
|change = −1.9
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = William Sproston Caine
|votes = 15,801
|percentage = 21.1
|change = −2.6
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal-Labour (UK)
|candidate = William Shaw Simpson
|votes = 2,435
|percentage = 3.3
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 3,057
|percentage = 4.1
|change = +2.7
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 38,673 (est)
|percentage = 70.4 (est)
|change = −9.5
}}
{{Election box Registered electors|
|reg. electors = 54,952
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
|swing = +1.8
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
|swing = −1.2
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Liberal Party (UK)
|swing = −1.3
}}
{{Election box end}}
Ryder was appointed Vice-President of the Committee of the Council on Education, requiring a by-election.
{{Election box begin | title=By-election, 14 March 1874: Liverpool}}
{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate =Dudley Ryder
}}
{{Election box hold with party link no swing|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
}}
{{Election box end}}
Torr's death caused a by-election.
{{Election box begin | title=By-election, 6 February 1880: Liverpool}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Edward Whitley
|votes = 26,106
|percentage = 52.2
|change = −1.2
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = John Ramsay
|votes = 23,885
|percentage = 47.8
|change = +4.4
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 2,221
|percentage = 4.4
|change = +0.3
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 49,991
|percentage = 78.2
|change = +7.8
}}
{{Election box Registered electors|
|reg. electors = 63,946
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
|swing = −2.8
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=General election 1880: Liverpool (3 seats){{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|type=e-book|pages=191–192}}}}
{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = John Ramsay
}}
{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Dudley Ryder
}}
{{Election box winning candidate unopposed with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Edward Whitley
}}
{{Election box Registered electors|
|reg. electors = 63,946
}}
{{Election box hold with party link no swing|
|winner = Liberal Party (UK)
}}
{{Election box hold with party link no swing|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
}}
{{Election box hold with party link no swing|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
}}
{{Election box end}}
Ramsay succeeded to the peerage, becoming Earl of Dalhousie, causing a by-election.
{{Election box begin | title=By-election, 9 August 1880: Liverpool}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Claud Hamilton
|votes = 21,019
|percentage = 52.4
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = Samuel Plimsoll
|votes = 19,118
|percentage = 47.6
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 1,901
|percentage = 4.8
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 40,137
|percentage = 62.8
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box Registered electors|
|reg. electors = 63,946
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
|loser = Liberal Party (UK)
|swing = N/A
}}
{{Election box end}}
Ryder succeeded to the peerage, becoming Earl of Harrowby, causing a by-election.
{{Election box begin | title=By-election, 11 December 1882: Liverpool}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = Samuel Smith
|votes = 18,198
|percentage = 50.4
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Arthur Forwood
|votes = 17,889
|percentage = 49.6
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 309
|percentage = 0.8
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 36,087
|percentage = 58.2
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box Registered electors|
|reg. electors = 62,039
}}
{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Liberal Party (UK)
|loser = Conservative Party (UK)
|swing = N/A
}}
{{Election box end}}
Notes and references
Notes
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References
{{Reflist}}
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [https://archive.org/details/achronologicalr00beatgoog ]
- D. Brunton & D. H. Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [https://web.archive.org/web/20150904125310/http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=p-000-00---0modhis06--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=d&cl=CL1]
- F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- J. E. Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
- {{Rayment-hc|l|3|date=March 2012}}
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