Garston and Halewood was a

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created in 2010 and was represented in the

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of the

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since 2010 by

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of the Labour Party. Following the

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, the seat was abolished at the

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, with the majority (parts in the City of Liverpool) being included in the re-established constituency of Liverpool Garston.

Halewood Halewood is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England, near the city of Liverpool's southeastern boundary, bordered by the suburbs of Netherley, Hunt's Cross and Woolton. Historically part of Lanca ...

is included in the new constituency of Widnes and Halewood.

History

;Creation The seat was created for the 2010 general election during the

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's review of constituencies. ;Political history The 2015 re-election of frontbencher

(Lab) made the seat the 11th safest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.

Boundaries

The City of Liverpool wards of Allerton and Hunts Cross, Belle Vale, Cressington, Speke-Garston, and Woolton, and the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley wards of Halewood North, Halewood South, and Halewood West. The boundaries have been drawn to date almost square, favouring neither riverside nor inland reach. The constituency covers most of the previous Liverpool Garston (part of the city of

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), together with the most southerly part of the borough of Knowsley (previously in the Knowsley South constituency).

Constituency profile

Two parts of the political division are green — land surrounding its airport (including the

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's archetypal Tudor Speke Hall and grounds) and in the north east, parts of Hough Green and Tarbock Green. The remainder is urban and forms the southern tip of the Merseyside metropolitan county (of mid-size among the

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-enacted units). The constituency as drawn stretches along the most up-river part of the

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before its brief start between Cheshire and the remainder of its former county of Lancashire, on a near-flat riverside. The history of the City of Liverpool (right) bank of the Mersey witnessed in the late 20th century the ceasing of shipbuilding and a sharp decline in trade, rail distribution and manufacturing prompting mass unemployment. Its now-modest socially rented housing stock alleviated overcrowding of Liverpool. The seat is centred approximately from the city centre. The constituency also includes

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Deprivation is low for the metropolitan county and marginally higher than the region as a whole. As at the 2011 census 60% of housing was owner-occupied (compared to 64.5% in the North West of England region). At the same census 9.1% of households were deprived in three or the maximum of four dimensions measured by the ONS — in the region the figure is 7.0%.Parish: Key Statistics: Population.
( 2011 census) Retrieved 2016-05-04.

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

:* ''Served as an MP in the 2005–2010 Parliament''

Notes

References

External links

Garston and Halewood UK Parliament constituency
(boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) at ''MapIt UK'' {{Coord, 53.358, -2.870, display=title Parliamentary constituencies in Merseyside (historic) Historic parliamentary constituencies of Liverpool Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 2010 Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 2024 Politics of the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley