Liverpool Fairfield (UK Parliament constituency)
Liverpool Fairfield | |
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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 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Benn Jack Brunel Cohen | 7,698 | 50.6 | n/a | |
Liberal | 4,188 | 27.5 | n/a | ||
Labour | George Porter | 3,337 | 21.9 | n/a | |
Majority | 3,510 | 23.1 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 54.9 | n/a | |||
Unionist win | |||||
- endorsed by Coalition Government
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Benn Jack Brunel Cohen | 14,316 | 72.3 | +21.7 | |
Labour | George Porter | 5,478 | 27.7 | +5.8 | |
Majority | 8,838 | 44.6 | +21.5 | ||
Turnout | 64.0 | +9.1 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | +7.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Benn Jack Brunel Cohen | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Unionist hold | Swing | n/a | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Benn Jack Brunel Cohen | 14,277 | 62.9 | n/a | |
Labour | Mrs Mary Ann Mercer | 8,412 | 37.1 | n/a | |
Majority | 5,865 | 25.8 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 72.2 | n/a | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | n/a | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Benn Jack Brunel Cohen | 16,436 | 52.9 | -10.0 | |
Labour | John Hamer Sutcliffe | 14,614 | 47.1 | +10.0 | |
Majority | 1,822 | 5.8 | -20.0 | ||
Turnout | 31,050 | 71.9 | -0.3 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | -10.0 | |||
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Clement Edmund Royds Brocklebank | 24,636 | 75.6 | +23.7 | |
Labour | A. Dodd | 7,960 | 24.4 | -23.7 | |
Majority | 16,676 | 51.2 | +47.4 | ||
Turnout | 32,596 | 72.5 | +0.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +23.7 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Clement Edmund Royds Brocklebank | 18,596 | 62.5 | −13.1 | |
Labour | Arthur Seymour Moody | 11,155 | 37.5 | +13.1 | |
Majority | 7,441 | 25.0 | -26.2 | ||
Turnout | 29,751 | 61.7 | −10.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −13.1 | |||
General Election 1939/40
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;
- Conservative: Sir Clement Edmund Royds Brocklebank
- Labour: Arthur Seymour Moody[2]
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arthur Seymour Moody | 14,475 | 45.7 | +18.2 | |
Conservative | Sir Clement Edmund Royds Brocklebank | 13,328 | 42.2 | −20.3 | |
Liberal | William Henry Ledsom | 3,816 | 12.1 | n/a | |
Majority | 1,147 | 3.5 | 28.5 | ||
Turnout | 31,619 | 65.8 | +4.1 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +19.2 | |||
References
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