Bootle (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 53°26′46″N 2°59′20″W / 53.446°N 2.989°W / 53.446; -2.989

Bootle
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Bootle in Merseyside.
Location of Merseyside within England.
County	Merseyside
Population	98,449 (2011 census)^[1]
Electorate	70,824 (December 2010)^[2]
Major settlements	Bootle
Current constituency
Created	1885
Member of parliament	Peter Dowd (Labour)
Number of members	One
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	North West England

Bootle is a constituency^{[n 1]} which has been represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Peter Dowd of the Labour Party since 2015.^{[n 2]}

History

The constituency was originally a Conservative seat, being represented by Conservative Party leader Andrew Bonar Law from 1911 until 1918 when property qualifications for the vote were abolished. A Liberal seat in the 1920s, it then became a Conservative - Labour marginal in the 1930s. The Labour Party has held it continually since the 1945 general election which saw two decades of steep decline in the profitability of Liverpool Docks, manufacturing and shipbuilding which employed many workers. In each general election from 1997 until 2010 it was the safest seat for any party in Britain.

In 1990, there were two by-elections in Bootle. The first followed the death of Allan Roberts on 21 February, and was held on 24 May. That by-election is remembered because Jack Holmes, the candidate of the continuing Social Democratic Party (representing the part of the SDP which did not merge with the Liberal Democrats) was humiliatingly beaten by Screaming Lord Sutch of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party. The victorious Labour candidate, Michael Carr, died on 20 July 1990 after just 57 days in office.

The second by-election, held on 8 November 1990, was won by Labour's Joe Benton. Benton has held the seat since then with large majorities and, except in 2010, a share of the vote greater than 70%. In the 2005 election the seat both was the safest seat and also had the highest winning share of the vote.^[3] In June 2014, Benton announced he would retire at the 2015 general election after 25 years as the seat's MP.

At the 2015 general election, Bootle is the safest seat in the United Kingdom

Constituency profile

The seat has some small neighbourhoods with middle-to-high incomes, but generally residents have some of the lowest UK incomes and there is a higher-than-average proportion of social housing.^[4] The constituency has long been one of the safest seats in the United Kingdom and since 1983 has given majorities in excess of 50% to the Labour Party candidate at General Elections.

Boundaries

1885-1918: The Municipal Boroughs of Bootle-cum-Linacre and Liverpool, the civil parishes of Childwall, Fazakerley, Walton-on-the-Hill, and Wavertree, and parts of the civil parishes of Toxteth Park and West Derby.

1918-1950: The County Borough of Bootle.

1950-1955: The County Borough of Bootle, and the Urban District of Litherland.

1955-1974: The County Borough of Bootle.

1974-1983: The County Borough of Bootle, and the Urban District of Litherland.

1983-1997: The Metropolitan Borough of Sefton wards of Church, Derby, Ford, Linacre, Litherland, Netherton, Orrell, and St Oswald.

1997-2010: The Metropolitan Borough of Sefton wards of Derby, Ford, Linacre, Litherland, Netherton, Orrell, and St Oswald.

2010-present: The Metropolitan Borough of Sefton wards of Church, Derby, Ford, Linacre, Litherland, Netherton and Orrell, St Oswald, and Victoria.

The constituency covers the southern part of the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside. This comprises Bootle itself plus other localities including Crosby, Waterloo, Seaforth, Litherland, Netherton, Orrell and Ford.

Boundary changes that came into force as a result of the 2010 general election being called saw the constituency grow to also include parts of the old Crosby constituency, with the electoral wards of Church and Victoria being added. Although these areas are more affluent than some parts of Bootle, it has not changed the seat from being anything other than a safe Labour one.

Members of Parliament

	Member^[5]	Party
1885	Thomas Myles Sandys	Conservative
1911 by-election	Andrew Bonar Law	Conservative
1918	Sir Thomas Royden, Bt.	Coalition Conservative
1922	James Burnie	Liberal
1924	Vivian Leonard Henderson	Conservative
1929	John Kinley	Labour
1931	Chichester de Windt Crookshank	Conservative
1935	Eric Errington	Conservative
1945	John Kinley	Labour
1955	Simon Mahon	Labour
1979	Allan Roberts	Labour
1990 by-election	Michael Carr	Labour
1990 by-election	Joe Benton	Labour
2015	Peter Dowd	Labour

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Bootle^[6]^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Peter Dowd	33,619	74.5	+8.0
	UKIP	Paul Nuttall	4,915	10.9	+4.8
	Conservative	Jade Marsden	3,639	8.1	-0.9
	Green	Lisa Tallis	1,501	3.3	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	David Newman	978	2.2	-13.0
	TUSC	Peter Glover	500	1.1	0.0
Majority			28,704	63.6	+12.3
Turnout			45,152	64.4	+6.6
	Labour hold		Swing	+1.6

General Election 2010: Bootle^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joe Benton	27,426	66.5	−9.0
	Liberal Democrat	James Murray	6,245	15.1	+3.5
	Conservative	Sohail Qureshi	3,678	8.9	+2.8
	UKIP	Paul Nuttall	2,514	6.1	+2.8
	BNP	Charles Stewart	942	2.3	N/A
	TUSC	Peter Glover	472	1.1	N/A
Majority			21,181	51.3
Turnout			41,227	57.8	7.0
	Labour hold		Swing	−1.6

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Bootle^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joe Benton	19,345	75.5	−2.1
	Liberal Democrat	Chris Newby	2,988	11.7	+3.2
	Conservative	Wafik Moustafa	1,580	6.2	−1.8
	UKIP	Paul Nuttall	1,054	4.1	N/A
	Socialist Alternative	Peter Glover	655	2.6	+0.2
Majority			16,357	63.8
Turnout			25,622	47.7	−2.1
	Labour hold		Swing	−2.6

General Election 2001: Bootle^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joe Benton	21,400	77.6	−5.3
	Liberal Democrat	Jim Murray	2,357	8.5	+2.8
	Conservative	Judith Symes	2,194	8.0	−0.5
	Socialist Labour	Dave Flynn	971	3.5	+2.4
	Socialist Alliance	Peter Glover	672	2.4	N/A
Majority			19,043	69.1
Turnout			27,594	49.8	−17.0
	Labour hold		Swing	−5.3

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Bootle^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joe Benton	31,668	82.9	+8.3
	Conservative	Rupert Matthews	3,247	8.5	−7.5
	Liberal Democrat	Kiron Reid	2,191	5.7	−0.9
	Referendum	James Elliot	571	1.5	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Peter Glover	420	1.1	N/A
	Natural Law	Simon Cohen	126	0.3	−0.2
Majority			28,421	74.4
Turnout			38,223	66.7	−5.8
	Labour hold		Swing	+6.0

General Election 1992: Bootle^[12]^[13]^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joe Benton	37,464	74.6	+7.7
	Conservative	Christopher J. Varley	8,022	16.0	−4.1
	Liberal Democrat	John Cunningham	3,301	6.6	−6.4
	Liberal	Ms Medina Hall	1,174	2.3	N/A
	Natural Law	Thomas Haynes	264	0.5	N/A
Majority			29,442	58.6	+11.8
Turnout			50,225	72.5	−0.4
	Labour hold		Swing	+5.9

Bootle by-election, November 1990
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joe Benton	22,052	78.2	+2.8
	Conservative	James Clappison	2,587	9.2	−0.1
	Liberal Democrat	John Cunningham	2,216	7.9	−1.0
	Green	Sean Brady	557	2.0	−1.6
	Monster Raving Loony	Lord David Sutch	310	1.1	−0.1
	Liberal	Kevin White	291	1.0	+0.3
	Christian Alliance	David Black	132	0.5	+0.5
Majority			19,465	69.1
Turnout			28,145	39.7	−10.9
	Labour hold		Swing	+1.5

Bootle by-election, May 1990
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Carr	26,737	75.4	+8.5
	Conservative	James Clappison	3,220	9.1	−11.0
	Liberal Democrat	John Cunningham	3,179	8.9	−4.1
	Green	Sean Brady	1,269	3.6	+3.6
	Liberal	Kevin White	474	1.3	+1.3
	Monster Raving Loony	Lord David Sutch	418	1.2	+1.2
	Social Democratic	Jack Holmes	155	0.4	+0.4
	Independent	T. J. Schofield	27	0.1	+0.1
Majority			23,517	66.3
Turnout			35,477	50.6	−22.3
	Labour hold		Swing	+9.8

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Bootle^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Allan Roberts	34,975	66.9	+13.9
	Conservative	Peter Robert Papworth	10,498	20.1	−3.5
	Social Democratic	Paul Victor Denham	6,820	13.0	−10.4
Majority			24,477	46.8	+17.4
Turnout			52,293	72.9	+4.6
	Labour hold		Swing	+8.7

General Election 1983: Bootle^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Allan Roberts	27,282	53.0	−8.0
	Conservative	Ronald Watson	12,143	23.6	−3.0
	Social Democratic	John Wall	12,068	23.4	+13.1
Majority			15,139	29.4	−5.0
Turnout			51,493	68.3	−2.1
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1979: Bootle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Allan Roberts	26,900	61.0	−3.0
	Conservative	Ronald Watson	11,741	26.6	+1.7
	Liberal	D.L. Mahon	4,531	10.3	+0.4
	Independent Liberal	H.I. Fjortoft	911	2.1	N/A
Majority			15,159	34.4	−4.7
Turnout			44,083	70.4	+3.2
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election October 1974: Bootle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Simon Mahon	27,633	64.0	+5.4
	Conservative	J F Borrows	10,743	24.9	−1.7
	Liberal	H.I. Fjortoft	4,266	9.9	3−.6
	Communist	R. Morris	512	1.2	−0.1
Majority			16,890	39.1	+7.1
Turnout			43,158	67.2	−6.1
	Labour hold		Swing	+3.6

General Election February 1974: Bootle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Simon Mahon	27,301	58.6	−5.0
	Conservative	J.F. Borrows	12,366	26.6	−9.8
	Liberal	H.I. Fjortoft	6,258	13.5	N/A
	Communist	R. Morris	586	1.3	N/A
Majority			14,935	32.0
Turnout			46,511	73.3	+8.1
	Labour hold		Swing	+2.4

General Election 1970: Bootle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Simon Mahon	20,101	63.6	+3.2
	Conservative	G. Halliwell	11,496	36.4	+2.8
Majority			8,614	27.3
Turnout			31,633	65.2	−3.0
	Labour hold		Swing	+0.2

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1966: Bootle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Simon Mahon	19,412	60.4	−1.6
	Conservative	G. Halliwell	10,813	33.6	−4.4
	Independent Labour	W. Grant	1,931	6.0	N/A
Majority			8,599	26.7
Turnout			32,156	68.2	−2.7
	Labour hold		Swing	+1.4

General Election 1964: Bootle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Simon Mahon	21,677	62.0	+8.3
	Conservative	G Halliwell	13,285	38.0	−8.3
Majority			8,392	24.0
Turnout			34,962	70.9	−7.4
	Labour hold		Swing	+8.3

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1959: Bootle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Simon Mahon	21,294	53.7	+1.7
	Conservative	H.O. Cullen	18,379	46.3	−1.7
Majority			2,915	7.4
Turnout			39,673	78.3	+2.6
	Labour hold		Swing	+1.7

General Election 1955: Bootle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Simon Mahon	19,020	52.0	−0.7
	Conservative	H.W. Jones	17,582	48.0	+3.3
Majority			1,438	3.9
Turnout			36,602	75.7	−5.5
	Labour hold		Swing	−2.0

General Election 1951: Bootle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Kinley	26,597	52.7	−0.1
	Conservative	A O Hughes	22,535	44.7	−0.2
	Anti-Partition	H. McHugh	1,340	2.7	+0.4
Majority			4,062	8.1
Turnout			50,472	81.2	−0.9
	Labour hold		Swing	+0.2

General Election 1950: Bootle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Kinley	25,472	52.8	−5.8
	Conservative	W. Hill	21,673	44.9	+3.5
	Anti-Partition	B McGinnity	1,029	2.3	N/A
Majority			3,799	7.9
Turnout			48,174	82.1	+12.4
	Labour hold		Swing	−4.7

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Bootle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Kinley	15,823	58.6	+19.8
	Conservative	Eric Errington	11,180	41.4	−7.2
Majority			4,643	17.2
Turnout			27,003	69.7	−1.6
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1935: Bootle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Eric Errington	16,653	48.6	−13.3
	Labour	John Kinley	13,285	38.8	+0.7
	Liberal	James Burnie	4,319	12.6
Majority			3,368	9.8	−14.0
Turnout			34,257	71.3	−7.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1931: Bootle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Chichester de Windt Crookshank	22,966	61.9	+21.2
	Labour	John Kinley	14,160	38.1	−5.5
Majority			8,806	23.8
Turnout			37,126	78.9	+1.0
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1929: Bootle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Kinley	15,294	43.6	+8.9
	Unionist	Vivian Leonard Henderson	14,263	40.7	−4.8
	Liberal	Ernest Eric Edwards	5,523	15.7	−4.1
Majority			1,031	2.9	13.7
Turnout			35,080	77.9	+0.9
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing	+6.8

General Election 1924: Bootle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Vivian Leonard Henderson	12,361	45.5	+3.4
	Labour	John Kinley	9,427	34.7	+20.9
	Liberal	James Burnie	5,386	19.8	−24.3
Majority			2,934	10.8
Turnout			27,174	77.0	+8.9
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing

General Election 1923: Bootle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Burnie	10,444	44.1	−12.2
	Unionist	Vivian Leonard Henderson	9,991	42.1	+0.2
	Labour	John Kinley	3,272	13.8	n/a
Majority			453	2.0	−12.4
Turnout			23,707	68.1	−3.0
	Liberal hold		Swing	-6.2

General Election 1922: Bootle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Burnie	13,276	56.3
	Unionist	Sir Alexander Bicket	9,867	41.9
	Independent	J E Burke	425	1.8
Majority			3,409	14.4
Turnout			23,568	71.1
	Liberal gain from Unionist		Swing

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Bootle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Thomas Royden	12,312	63.0
	Sailors' Union	Edmund Cathery	7,235	37.0
Majority			5,077	26.0
Turnout			19,547	58.5
	Unionist hold		Swing

endorsed by Coalition Government

Bootle by-election, 1911
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Andrew Bonar Law	9,976	56.2
	Liberal	Max Muspratt	7,782	43.8
Majority			2,194	12.4
Turnout			17,758	69.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election December 1910: Crosby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Myles Sandys	Unopposed
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election January 1910: Bootle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Myles Sandys	9,954	52.9	+1.8
	Liberal	Dr W Permewan	8,869	47.1	-1.8
Majority			1,085	5.8	+3.6
Turnout			18,823	78.7	+4.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1906: Bootle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Myles Sandys	7,821	51.1
	Liberal	Dr A P Thomas	7,481	48.9
Majority			340	2.2
Turnout			15,302	73.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1900: Crosby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Myles Sandys	Unopposed
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1895: Crosby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Myles Sandys	Unopposed
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1892: Bootle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Myles Sandys	6,532	59.4
	Liberal	A McDougall	4,460	40.6
Majority			2,072	18.8
Turnout			10,992	69.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1886: Crosby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Myles Sandys	Unopposed
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1885: Bootle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Myles Sandys	6,715	63.1	N/A
	Liberal	S H Whitbread	3,933	36.9	N/A
Majority			2,782	26.2	N/A
Turnout			10,648	72.6	N/A
	Conservative win (new seat)

Notes and references

Notes

↑ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
↑ 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.

References

↑ "Bootle: Usual Resident Population, 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
↑ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
↑ report, p14
↑ 2001 Census
↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 4)
↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ "Bootle". BBC News. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
↑ The changes and swing are calculated relative to the 1987 general election, not to either of the 1990 by-elections.
↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.

Sources

Election results, 1950 - 2005
F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1885 - 1918
F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918 - 1949

External Links

nomis Constituency Profile for Bootle — presenting data from the ONS annual population survey and other official statistics.

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