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| Liverpool, Walton | |
|---|---|
| Borough constituency for theHouse of Commons | |
Boundary of Liverpool Walton in North West England | |
| County | Merseyside |
| Electorate | 71,181 (2023)[1] |
| Major settlements | Fazakerley,Orrell Park,Walton |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1885 |
| Member of Parliament | Dan Carden (Labour) |
| Seats | One |
| Created from | Liverpool |
Liverpool Walton is aconstituency[n 1] represented in theHouse of Commons of theUK Parliament since 2017 byDan Carden of theLabour Party.[n 2]

1918–1950: The County Borough of Liverpool wards of Fazakerley, Walton, and Warbreck.
1950–1955: As above plus the civil parish of Aintree in the Rural District of West Lancashire.
1955–1983: The County Borough of Liverpool wards of County, Fazakerley, Pirrie, and Warbreck.
1983–2010: The City of Liverpool wards of Anfield, Breckfield, County, Fazakerley, Melrose, and Warbreck.
2010–2024: The City of Liverpool wards ofAnfield,Clubmoor,County,Everton,Fazakerley, andWarbreck.
Further to the2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which came into effect for the2024 general election, the constituency was defined as being composed of the following wards of the City of Liverpool as they existed on 1 December 2020:
The constituency was subject to significant change, with the addition of the (former) wards ofCroxteth andNorris Green fromLiverpool West Derby and theAintree district in the Sefton Borough ward of Molyneux fromSefton Central. These were partly offset by the transfer of the Anfield and Everton wards toLiverpool Riverside.
Liverpool was subject to a comprehensive local government boundary review which came into effect in May 2023.[3][4] As a result, the new constituency boundaries do not align with the revised ward boundaries. The constituency now comprises the following wards or part wards from the 2024 general election:
The constituency is one of five covering the city ofLiverpool and covers the north-centre of the city thereby taking inWalton,Clubmoor,Orrell Park,Anfield,Everton andFazakerley. The grounds ofLiverpool F.C. (Anfield) andEverton F.C. (Goodison Park), the city's two major football clubs, are in the constituency.[needs update]
Created by theRedistribution of Seats Act 1885, Liverpool Walton has been held by theLabour Party since the 1964 general election, and is the party'ssafest seat by size of majority.[citation needed] In 2010 and 2015, it had the largest Labour majority in the country by percentage terms.[6][original research?] Labour has won over 70% of the vote at every general election in the Walton constituency since1992, although for many years it was looked on as a reasonably safe Conservative seat. Until 1964, Labour had only gained Walton once, at their landslide victory after the Second World War in 1945. Like other seats in Merseyside, the Conservative Party's share of the vote declined rapidly during the 1980s, and Conservative candidates failed to poll in second place from 1997 until 2017. From 1964 until his death in 1991, the seat was held by the notable left-wingerEric Heffer; the subsequent by-election was won byPeter Kilfoyle, who held the seat until2010.Steve Rotheram won the seat in 2010 after Kilfoyle stood down.
At both the2010 and2015 general elections, Liverpool Walton saw the highest share of the vote for a winning candidate in the country, and in the latter election, the 81.3% of the vote won by Rotheram was the highest of any candidate in an election in the UK since1997.[7][original research?]
In 2015, Liverpool Walton was the only constituency in England where the Conservative candidate (Norsheen Bhatti) lost their deposit.[citation needed]
In May 2017, Steve Rotheram was elected asMayor of the Liverpool City Region and chose not to stand for re-election as an MP at the2017 general election held one month later. In that election, the seat was won by the Labour candidateDan Carden with the highest vote share for any Labour candidate nationally at 85.7%.[8][original research?]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Dan Carden | 26,032 | 70.6 | −11.8 | |
| Reform | Joe Doran | 5,787 | 15.7 | +13.5 | |
| Green | Martyn Madeley | 2,388 | 6.5 | +4.7 | |
| Conservative | Emma Ware | 1,282 | 3.5 | −6.4 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Sean Cadwallader | 945 | 2.6 | +0.3 | |
| Liberal | Billy Lake | 452 | 1.2 | −0.2 | |
| Majority | 20,245 | 54.9 | −19.9 | ||
| Turnout | 36,886 | 53.2 | −11.9 | ||
| Labourhold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Dan Carden | 34,538 | 84.7 | −1.0 | |
| Conservative | Alex Phillips | 4,018 | 9.9 | +1.3 | |
| Green | Ted Grant | 814 | 2.0 | +0.8 | |
| Liberal Democrats | David Newman | 756 | 1.9 | +0.4 | |
| Liberal | Billy Lake | 660 | 1.6 | New | |
| Majority | 30,520 | 74.8 | −2.3 | ||
| Turnout | 40,786 | 65.1 | −2.2 | ||
| Labourhold | Swing | −1.1 | |||
In percentage terms, Carden's vote share and majority were unmatched by any candidate in any constituency at the 2019 election,[12] although higher turnouts and larger electorates saw fifteen other MPs — twelve Labour inLondon and one inMerseyside, and three Conservatives inLincolnshire andEssex — win with bigger numerical majorities.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Dan Carden | 36,175 | 85.7 | +4.4 | |
| Conservative | Laura Evans | 3,624 | 8.6 | +3.9 | |
| Independent | Terry May | 1,237 | 2.9 | New | |
| Liberal Democrats | Kris Brown | 638 | 1.5 | −0.8 | |
| Green | Colm Feeley | 523 | 1.2 | −1.3 | |
| Majority | 32,551 | 77.1 | +4.8 | ||
| Turnout | 42,197 | 67.3 | +6.2 | ||
| Labourhold | Swing | +0.3 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Steve Rotheram | 31,222 | 81.3 | +9.3 | |
| UKIP | Steven Flatman | 3,445 | 9.0 | +6.4 | |
| Conservative | Norsheen Bhatti | 1,802 | 4.7 | −1.8 | |
| Green | Jonathan Clatworthy | 956 | 2.5 | New | |
| Liberal Democrats | Patrick Moloney | 899 | 2.3 | −11.9 | |
| Independent | Alexander Karran | 56 | 0.1 | New | |
| The Pluralist Party | Jonathan Bishop | 23 | 0.1 | New | |
| Majority | 27,777 | 72.3 | +14.5 | ||
| Turnout | 38,403 | 61.1 | +6.3 | ||
| Labourhold | Swing | +1.5 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Steve Rotheram | 24,709 | 72.0 | +0.2 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Patrick Moloney | 4,891 | 14.2 | −2.7 | |
| Conservative | Adam Marsden | 2,241 | 6.5 | +0.6 | |
| BNP | Peter Stafford | 1,104 | 3.2 | New | |
| UKIP | Joseph Nugent | 898 | 2.6 | −0.7 | |
| CPA | John Manwell | 297 | 0.9 | New | |
| TUSC | Darren Ireland | 195 | 0.6 | New | |
| Majority | 19,818 | 57.8 | +3.0 | ||
| Turnout | 34,335 | 54.8 | +8.1 | ||
| Labourhold | Swing | +1.5 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Peter Kilfoyle | 20,322 | 72.8 | −5.0 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Kiron Reid | 4,365 | 15.6 | +1.0 | |
| Conservative | Sharon Buckle | 1,655 | 5.9 | −0.2 | |
| UKIP | Joseph Moran | 1,108 | 4.0 | +2.4 | |
| Liberal | Daniel J. Wood | 480 | 1.7 | New | |
| Majority | 15,957 | 57.2 | −6.0 | ||
| Turnout | 27,930 | 45.0 | +2.0 | ||
| Labourhold | Swing | −3.0 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Peter Kilfoyle | 22,143 | 77.8 | −0.6 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Kiron Reid | 4,147 | 14.6 | +3.5 | |
| Conservative | Stephen Horgan | 1,726 | 6.1 | −0.2 | |
| UKIP | Paul Forrest | 442 | 1.6 | New | |
| Majority | 17,996 | 63.2 | −4.1 | ||
| Turnout | 28,458 | 43.0 | −16.5 | ||
| Labourhold | Swing | −2.1 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Peter Kilfoyle | 31,516 | 78.4 | +6.0 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Richard J. Roberts | 4,478 | 11.1 | −0.9 | |
| Conservative | Mark K. Kotecha | 2,551 | 6.3 | −6.2 | |
| Referendum | Charles Grundy | 620 | 1.5 | New | |
| Socialist Alternative | Lesley Mahmood | 444 | 1.1 | New | |
| Liberal | Hazel L. Williams | 352 | 0.9 | −1.1 | |
| ProLife Alliance | Veronica P. Mearns | 246 | 0.6 | New | |
| Majority | 27,038 | 67.3 | +8.4 | ||
| Turnout | 40,207 | 59.5 | −7.9 | ||
| Labourhold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Peter Kilfoyle | 34,214 | 72.4 | +8.0 | |
| Conservative | Berkeley Greenwood | 5,915 | 12.5 | −1.9 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Joseph Lang | 5,672 | 12.0 | −9.2 | |
| Liberal | Tom Newall | 963 | 2.0 | New | |
| Protestant Reformation | David J.E. Carson | 393 | 0.8 | New | |
| Natural Law | Dianne Raiano | 98 | 0.2 | New | |
| Majority | 28,299 | 59.9 | +16.7 | ||
| Turnout | 47,255 | 67.4 | −6.2 | ||
| Labourhold | Swing | +4.9 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Peter Kilfoyle | 21,317 | 53.1 | −11.3 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Paul Clark | 14,457 | 36.0 | +14.8 | |
| Walton Real Labour | Lesley Mahmood | 2,613 | 6.5 | New | |
| Conservative | Berkeley Greenwood | 1,155 | 2.9 | −11.5 | |
| Monster Raving Loony | Screaming Lord Sutch | 546 | 1.4 | New | |
| Independent | George Lee-Delisle | 63 | 0.1 | New | |
| Majority | 6,860 | 17.1 | −26.1 | ||
| Turnout | 40,151 | 56.7 | −16.9 | ||
| Labourhold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Eric Heffer | 34,661 | 64.4 | +11.7 | |
| Liberal | Paul Clark | 11,408 | 21.2 | −0.2 | |
| Conservative | Iain Mays | 7,738 | 14.4 | −10.7 | |
| Majority | 23,253 | 43.2 | +15.6 | ||
| Turnout | 53,807 | 73.6 | +4.0 | ||
| Labourhold | Swing | +6.0 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Eric Heffer | 26,980 | 52.7 | −2.5 | |
| Conservative | Alan Maddox | 12,865 | 25.1 | −11.5 | |
| Liberal | David M.B. Croft | 10,970 | 21.4 | +11.9 | |
| BNP | Donald J.M. McKechnie | 343 | 0.7 | New | |
| Majority | 14,115 | 27.6 | +6.0 | ||
| Turnout | 51,158 | 69.6 | −3.2 | ||
| Labourhold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Eric Heffer | 20,231 | 55.2 | −2.5 | |
| Conservative | R. Gould | 12,673 | 34.6 | +4.4 | |
| Liberal | N. Cardwell | 3,479 | 9.5 | −2.4 | |
| National Front | W.F. Haire | 254 | 0.7 | New | |
| Majority | 7,558 | 20.6 | |||
| Turnout | 36,637 | 72.8 | |||
| Labourhold | Swing | −3.5 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Eric Heffer | 20,568 | 58.0 | ||
| Conservative | R. Gould | 10,706 | 30.2 | ||
| Liberal | J. Watton | 4,221 | 11.9 | ||
| Majority | 9,862 | 27.79 | |||
| Turnout | 35,495 | 68.30 | |||
| Labourhold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Eric Heffer | 20,057 | 53.7 | ||
| Conservative | R.W. Rollins | 11,841 | 31.7 | ||
| Liberal | J. Watton | 4,842 | 13.0 | New | |
| National Front | C. Gibbon | 647 | 1.7 | New | |
| Majority | 8,216 | 22.0 | |||
| Turnout | 37,387 | 72.69 | |||
| Labourhold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Eric Heffer | 20,530 | 56.0 | −1.3 | |
| Conservative | Joseph Norton | 16,124 | 44.0 | +1.3 | |
| Majority | 4,406 | 12.0 | |||
| Turnout | 36,654 | 68.0 | |||
| Labourhold | Swing | −1.3 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Eric Heffer | 20,950 | 57.3 | +3.7 | |
| Conservative | Kenneth Thompson | 15,617 | 42.7 | −3.7 | |
| Majority | 5,333 | 14.6 | |||
| Turnout | 36,567 | 71.2 | −4.4 | ||
| Labourhold | Swing | +3.7 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Eric Heffer | 21,452 | 53.6 | +8.1 | |
| Conservative | Kenneth Thompson | 18,546 | 46.4 | −8.1 | |
| Majority | 2,906 | 7.3 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 39,998 | 75.6 | |||
| Labourgain fromConservative | Swing | +8.1 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Kenneth Thompson | 24,288 | 54.5 | +1.3 | |
| Labour | George McCartney | 20,254 | 45.5 | −1.3 | |
| Majority | 4,034 | 9.1 | |||
| Turnout | 44,542 | 77.7 | |||
| Conservativehold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Kenneth Thompson | 23,851 | 53.2 | ||
| Labour | Joseph Cleary | 20,989 | 46.8 | ||
| Majority | 2,862 | 6.4 | |||
| Turnout | 44,840 | 75.3 | |||
| Conservativehold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Kenneth Thompson | 28,014 | 53.59 | ||
| Labour | Ian Isidore Levin | 24,262 | 46.41 | ||
| Majority | 3,752 | 7.18 | |||
| Turnout | 52,276 | 81.05 | |||
| Conservativehold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Kenneth Thompson | 26,250 | 49.40 | ||
| Labour | James Haworth | 21,983 | 41.37 | ||
| Liberal | Ewart Heywood | 4,901 | 9.22 | ||
| Majority | 4,267 | 8.03 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 53,134 | 83.07 | |||
| Conservativegain fromLabour | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | James Haworth | 18,385 | 43.61 | ||
| Conservative | Reginald Purbrick | 15,749 | 37.35 | ||
| Liberal | Ernest Ronald Webster | 8,028 | 19.04 | ||
| Majority | 2,636 | 6.26 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 42,162 | 69.55 | |||
| Labourgain fromConservative | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Reginald Purbrick | 22,623 | 61.64 | ||
| Labour | Frederick Lees McGhee | 14,079 | 38.36 | ||
| Majority | 8,544 | 23.28 | |||
| Turnout | 36,702 | 64.24 | |||
| Conservativehold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Reginald Purbrick | 31,135 | 73.57 | ||
| Labour | F. A. P. Rowe | 11,183 | 26.43 | ||
| Majority | 19,952 | 47.14 | |||
| Turnout | 42.318 | 77.50 | |||
| Conservativehold | Swing | ||||

| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | John George Gibson | 3,492 | 58.3 | ||
| Liberal | Augustine Birrell | 2,500 | 41.7 | ||
| Majority | 992 | 16.6 | |||
| Turnout | 5,992 | 78.0 | |||
| Registered electors | 7,683 | ||||
| Conservativewin (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | John George Gibson | 2,872 | 63.1 | +4.8 | |
| Liberal | Charles Hamilton Bromby | 1,681 | 36.9 | −4.8 | |
| Majority | 1,191 | 26.2 | +9.6 | ||
| Turnout | 4,553 | 59.3 | −18.7 | ||
| Registered electors | 7,683 | ||||
| Conservativehold | Swing | +4.8 | |||
Gibson was appointedSolicitor-General for Ireland, requiring a by-election.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | John George Gibson | Unopposed | |||
| Conservativehold | |||||
Gibson resigned after being appointed a Judge of the Queen's Bench Division in theHigh Court of Justice in Ireland, causing a by-election.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Miles Walker Mattinson | Unopposed | |||
| Conservativehold | |||||

| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | James Henry Stock | 3,707 | 59.8 | −3.3 | |
| Liberal | Benjamin Ward Richardson | 2,493 | 40.2 | +3.3 | |
| Majority | 1,214 | 19.6 | −6.6 | ||
| Turnout | 6,200 | 68.9 | +9.6 | ||
| Registered electors | 9,004 | ||||
| Conservativehold | Swing | −3.3 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | James Henry Stock | Unopposed | |||
| Conservativehold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | James Henry Stock | Unopposed | |||
| Conservativehold | |||||

| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | F. E. Smith | 5,862 | 53.2 | N/A | |
| Liberal | Edwin George Jellicoe | 5,153 | 46.8 | New | |
| Majority | 709 | 6.4 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 11,015 | 74.0 | N/A | ||
| Registered electors | 14,889 | ||||
| Conservativehold | Swing | N/A | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | F. E. Smith | 6,627 | 52.6 | −0.6 | |
| Liberal | Francis L'Estrange Joseph | 5,513 | 43.8 | −3.0 | |
| Independent Liberal | Edwin George Jellicoe | 451 | 3.6 | −43.2 | |
| Majority | 1,114 | 8.8 | +2.4 | ||
| Turnout | 12,591 | 80.4 | +6.4 | ||
| Conservativehold | Swing | +1.2 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | F. E. Smith | 6,383 | 55.9 | +3.3 | |
| Liberal | William Permewan | 5,039 | 44.1 | +0.3 | |
| Majority | 1,344 | 11.8 | +3.0 | ||
| Turnout | 11,422 | 72.9 | −7.5 | ||
| Conservativehold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1914–15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | Unionist | Warden Chilcott | 11,457 | 71.4 | +15.5 |
| Labour | Robert Dixon Smith | 4,580 | 28.6 | New | |
| Majority | 6,877 | 42.8 | +31.0 | ||
| Turnout | 16,037 | 55.1 | −20.8 | ||
| Registered electors | 29,128 | ||||
| Unionisthold | Swing | N/A | |||
| Cindicatescandidate endorsed by the coalition government. | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unionist | Warden Chilcott | Unopposed | |||
| Unionisthold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unionist | Warden Chilcott | Unopposed | |||
| Unionisthold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unionist | Warden Chilcott | 13,387 | 55.3 | +12.6 | |
| Labour | Tom Gillinder | 8,924 | 36.8 | New | |
| Liberal | Samuel Skelton | 1,910 | 7.9 | New | |
| Majority | 4,463 | 18.5 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 24,221 | 76.9 | N/A | ||
| Registered electors | 31,482 | ||||
| Unionisthold | Swing | N/A | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unionist | Reginald Purbrick | 16,623 | 42.7 | −12.6 | |
| Labour | F. A. P. Rowe | 16,395 | 42.2 | +5.4 | |
| Liberal | Glyn Howard Howard-Jones | 5,857 | 15.1 | +7.2 | |
| Majority | 228 | 0.5 | −18.0 | ||
| Turnout | 38,875 | 76.0 | −0.9 | ||
| Registered electors | 51,175 | ||||
| Unionisthold | Swing | −9.0 | |||