Waterloo (UK Parliament constituency)

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

Waterloo was a parliamentary constituency centred on the district of Waterloo north of Liverpool in Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

History

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election. It was abolished for the 1950 general election.

Boundaries

The Urban Districts of Great Crosby, Litherland, Little Crosby, and Waterloo-with-Seaforth.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Albert Buckley	Coalition Conservative
	1922		Conservative
	1923	Malcolm Bullock	Conservative
1950		constituency abolished: see Crosby

Election results

Elections in the 1920s

Stewart-Brown

General Election 1922: Waterloo
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Albert Buckley	12,967	67.3
	Liberal	Nessie Stewart-Brown	6,300	32.7
Majority			6,667	34.6
Turnout			19,267	69.4
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1923: Waterloo [1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Harold Malcolm Bullock	10,615	51.2
	Liberal	Sir Robert Lowden Connell	9,965	48.4
Majority			650	2.4
Turnout			20,580
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1924: Waterloo [2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Harold Malcolm Bullock	15,704
	Labour	George Frank Titt	6,116
Majority			9,588
Turnout
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1929: Waterloo [3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Harold Malcolm Bullock	17,299	52.1
	Labour	John Clifford Leigh	8,142	24.5
	Liberal	Frederic Aked Sellars	7,728	23.3	n/a
Majority			9,157	27.6
Turnout			33,169
	Unionist hold		Swing

• United Kingdom general election, 1931: Capt M Bullock unopposed^[4]
• United Kingdom general election, 1935: Capt M Bullock unopposed^[5]

General Election 1945
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Harold Malcolm Bullock	19,650	47.4
	Labour	P Vos	13,795	33.3
	Liberal	JD Weir	7,823	18.8
	Independent	C Foster	195	0.5
Majority			5,855	14.1

References

1. The Times House of Commons, 1929
2. The Times House of Commons, 1929
3. The Times House of Commons, 1929
4. Election results 1931 PoliticsResources
5. Election results 1931 PoliticsResources

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 2)