Liverpool Fairfield (UK Parliament constituency)

Liverpool Fairfield
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1918–1950
Number of members	one

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.

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 1920s

United Kingdom general election, 1923: Liverpool Fairfield [1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Benn Jack Brunel Cohen	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1929: Liverpool Fairfield [2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Benn Jack Brunel Cohen	16,436	52.9
	Labour	John Hamer Sutcliffe	14,614	47.1
Majority			1,822	5.8
Turnout			31,050
	Unionist hold		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Liverpool Fairfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Clement Edmund Royds Brocklebank	24,636	75.6
	Labour	A. Dodd	7,960	24.4
Majority			16,676	51.2
Turnout			32,596	72.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1935: Liverpool Fairfield Electorate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Clement Edmund Royds Brocklebank	18,596	62.5	−13.1
	Labour	Arthur Moody	11,155	37.5	+13.1
Majority			7,441	25.0
Turnout			29,751	61.7	−10.8
	Conservative hold		Swing	−13.1

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Liverpool Fairfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Seymour Moody	14,475	45.8	+8.3
	Conservative	Sir Edmund Brocklebank	13,328	42.2	−20.3
	Liberal	William Henry Ledsom	3,816	13.2	N/A
Majority			1,147	3.6
Turnout			31,619	66.0	+4.3
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	+14.3

References

1. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
2. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "F"