Central was an electoral division of
Liverpool City Council in the
Liverpool Riverside Parliamentary constituency.
Background
The
ward was created for the 2004 municipal elections from the former
Abercromby,
Everton and
Smithdown wards.
The ward boundaries followed the
River Mersey, Princes Parade, William Jessop Way, Waterloo Road, Paisley Street, Great Howard Street, Leeds Street, Byrom Street, Hunter Street, Islington, Brunswick Road, Low Hill, Kensington, Jubilee Drive, Belltower Lane to behind Jubilee Drive, Edge Lane, Irvine Street, Mason Street, Grinfield Street, Smithdown Lane, Falkner Street, Grove Street, Myrtle Street, Hardman Street, Leece Street, Renshaw Street, Ranelagh Street, Hanover Street, Canning Place, Salthouse Quay, and Hartley Quay.
It contained the majority of the
city centre
A city centre, also known as an urban core, is the Commerce, commercial, Culture, cultural and often the historical, Politics, political, and geographic heart of a city. The term "city centre" is primarily used in British English, and closely e ...
but also includes Kensington Fields in the
Kensington
Kensington is an area of London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, around west of Central London.
The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up by Kensingt ...
district to the east and the Marybone/Holy Cross community in the
Vauxhall district. The ward includes the longstanding city centre community around the Bullring, as well as many new city centre apartments. Furthermore, the ward contains the
Pier Head and the two larger universities; the
University of Liverpool and
Liverpool John Moores University.
The population at the
2011 census was 20,340, and at the
2021 census was 24,849.
In 2004 Central was the city's most marginal ward, largely due to the intervention of the hard left Liverpool Labour Community Party, however the ward solely returned
Labour Party councillors. The May 2008 local elections saw Labour take 62% of the vote.
The 2011 vote was effected by the controversy involving the
Liberal Democrat candidate, Daniel Bradley, who is the son of former Liverpool City Council Leader
Warren Bradley, when Daniel disclosed that he had not signed the candidate paper which his father had witnessed.
Cllr Maria Toolan resigned from the Labour Party, weeks before the 2023 elections, after failing to be selected as a Labour candidate, and subsequently stood for the Liverpool Community Independents Party in
City Centre North ward.
The ward was dissolved in 2023 and was distributed mostly into the
City Centre North and
Brownlow Hill wards, with parts in the
Canning,
City Centre South,
Everton West Kensington & Fairfield and
Waterfront South wards.
Councillors
indicates seat up for re-election after boundary changes.
indicates seat up for re-election.
indicates change in affiliation.
indicates seat up for re-election after casual vacancy.
Election results
Elections of the 2020s
Elections of the 2010s
Elections of the 2000s
After the boundary change of 2004 the whole of Liverpool City Council faced election. Three Councillors were returned at this election.
• ''italics'' denotes the sitting Councillor
• bold denotes the winning candidate
References
External links
WARD PROFILE Central
{{Liverpool
Defunct wards of Liverpool