Wirral West
County constituency for theHouse of Commons
Boundary of Wirral West in North West England
County	Merseyside
Electorate	72,126 (2023)[1]
Major settlements	Greasby,Heswall,Hoylake,Irby,Pensby,West Kirby
Current constituency
Created	1983
Member of Parliament	Matthew Patrick (Labour)
Seats	One
Created from	Wirral

Wirral West is aconstituency represented in theHouse of Commons of theUK Parliament byMatthew Patrick of theLabour Party since2024.

The constituency is one of four covering theMetropolitan Borough of Wirral. It includesGreasby,Hoylake,West Kirby,Woodchurch, parts ofUpton (with other parts of Upton in theWallasey constituency),Irby,Pensby andHeswall. This is one of the more affluent areas withinMerseyside,^[2] reflected in higher house prices and wages than the wider North West region.^[3]

Wirral West was created in1983 from the northern part of the formerWirral constituency, which had traditionally electedConservative MPs.Selwyn Lloyd was the predecessor constituency's MP from 1945 to 1976, serving asForeign Secretary during theEden ministry,Chancellor of the Exchequer during theMacmillan ministry and becomingSpeaker of the Commons in 1971. Raised to the peerage in 1976, Lloyd resigned his seat and the ensuingby-election was won byDavid Hunt, who became the first MP for Wirral West in 1983. Hunt was a Cabinet member underMargaret Thatcher andJohn Major, serving asSecretary of State for Employment and twice asSecretary of State for Wales.

Hunt held the seat until1997, when he lost to barristerStephen Hesford of theLabour Party, but remained in Parliament as a member of theHouse of Lords. Hesford increased his majority in2001 and narrowly retained the seat in2005, despite a challenge at the latter election from former TV presenter and ConservativeEsther McVey. On 22 January 2010, he announced his intention to step down at the next general election for family reasons.

New boundary changes implemented, McVey stood again and won the seat for the Conservatives at the2010 general election, serving in thecoalition government as aWork and Pensions minister during her tenure. If implemented in 2005, the 2010 boundary changes would have seen the Conservatives win the seat by 569 votes.

Wirral West had been described as abellwether since its establishment,^[4][5] but bucked the trend at the2015 general election when Labour'sMargaret Greenwood narrowly defeated McVey, despite the Conservatives winning a parliamentary majority. McVey would successfully contest theTatton constituency in 2017. Like the nearbyCity of Chester, the seat was one of the few Conservative-heldmarginals outside of London to be gained by Labour, who benefited from the constituency's collapse inLiberal Democrat support.

Sixth on theConservative target list in2017, Greenwood was comfortably re-elected to Wirral West with the highest winning vote share since the seat was first up for election in 1983. She was promoted toJeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet as theShadow Work and Pensions Secretary in 2018, shadowing McVey who had returned to Parliament as the MP forTatton. Greenwood was re-elected with a reduced vote share in2019, and departed from the shadow cabinet uponKeir Starmer's election as Labour leader. She did not stand at the 2024 election and was succeeded byMatthew Patrick who increased Labour's majority to 20%.

1983–2010:Metropolitan Borough of Wirral wards of Hoylake,Prenton, Royden, Thurstaston, andUpton.

2010–2024: Metropolitan Borough of Wirral wards ofGreasby, Frankby and Irby,Hoylake and Meols,Pensby and Thingwall, Upton, andWest Kirby and Thurstaston.

In the 2005 Boundary Commission report, which came into effect for the2010 election, Wirral West lostPrenton to theBirkenhead constituency, and gained a small area fromWirral South, including the village ofBarnston.

Further to the2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which came into effect for the2024 general election, the constituency is composed of the following wards of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral (as they existed on 1 December 2020):

• Clatterbridge; Greasby, Frankby and Irby; Heswall; Hoylake and Meols; Pensby and Thingwall; Upton (polling districts MC, MD and ME); West Kirby and Thurstaston.^[6]

To bring the electorate within the permitted range, theClatterbridge andHeswall wards were added from the abolished constituency ofWirral South. The northern part of theUpton ward was transferred toWallasey.

General election 2024: Wirral West^[8][9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Matthew Patrick	23,156	46.4	+1.2
	Conservative	Jenny Johnson	13,158	26.3	–18.1
	Reform	Ken Ferguson	6,422	12.9	+10.7
	Green	Gail Jenkinson	4,160	8.3	+5.8
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Reisdorf	3,055	6.1	+0.4
Rejected ballots			187
Majority			9,998	20.0	+19.2
Turnout			49,951	68.6	–9.1
Registered electors			72,838
	Labourhold		Swing	9.6

Changes are from the notional 2019 results on the 2024 boundaries.^[10]

• List of parliamentary constituencies in Merseyside

• Wirral West UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 1997 – April 2010) atMapIt UK
• Wirral West UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) atMapIt UK
• Wirral West UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) atMapIt UK

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