Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Jan 5, 2024 13:21:12 GMT
This features content from Merseymike and Pete Whitehead and myself
My 2002 copy "The Political Map of Britain" describes the Liverpool Garston of the time as "one of the more diverse" Liverpool constituencies. It describes the seat as being the more middle-class, and highest retiree, populations in the city. It also reminds us of the collapse in turnout in 2001; barely half the electorate gave Maria Eagle just over 60% of the vote back then.
Liverpool's middle classes have traditionally lived in the south of the city, and the three former Tory heartlands of Woolton, Allerton and Cressington (formerly known as Grassendale) are part of the previous Garston/Halewood seat. Woolton provided the Tories last elected councillor, in 1994, under a slightly different boundary, but at local level they are no longer in contention. The Allerton and Hunts Cross ward is more mixed, with some social housing, and Cressington which contains an area of gated housing and has seen a photo-finish between Labour and Liberal Democrats locally in 2019.
2011 Census
2019 Notional results
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My 2002 copy "The Political Map of Britain" describes the Liverpool Garston of the time as "one of the more diverse" Liverpool constituencies. It describes the seat as being the more middle-class, and highest retiree, populations in the city. It also reminds us of the collapse in turnout in 2001; barely half the electorate gave Maria Eagle just over 60% of the vote back then.
Liverpool's middle classes have traditionally lived in the south of the city, and the three former Tory heartlands of Woolton, Allerton and Cressington (formerly known as Grassendale) are part of the previous Garston/Halewood seat. Woolton provided the Tories last elected councillor, in 1994, under a slightly different boundary, but at local level they are no longer in contention. The Allerton and Hunts Cross ward is more mixed, with some social housing, and Cressington which contains an area of gated housing and has seen a photo-finish between Labour and Liberal Democrats locally in 2019.
The remainder of the seat is a different story. The Belle Vale and Speke-Garston wards are both in this seat. Both are largely social housing, and are on the edge of the city - Belle Vale brought together two wards which had been affected by the demolition of tower block accommodation, one of which, Netherley, had been the electoral base of Derek Hatton. The LibDems had won seats in both wards on their first run in 2004. Speke is an outer estate that is physically cut off from the city by the A561, although does contain the John Lennon airport ("above us only sky") which has improved the transport links slightly, although there is still no train station.
At the most recent local elections, the mixed bag of results show that the significant issues with Liverpool City Council had immediate electoral consequences. Garston ward itself is held by the Liverpool Community Independents, while Grassendale/Cressington is safely Libdem. Labour carry these wards safely at a national level, work little opposition to them here or across much of the City Region.
At the most recent local elections, the mixed bag of results show that the significant issues with Liverpool City Council had immediate electoral consequences. Garston ward itself is held by the Liverpool Community Independents, while Grassendale/Cressington is safely Libdem. Labour carry these wards safely at a national level, work little opposition to them here or across much of the City Region.
Age 65+ 17.6% 264/650
Owner-occupied 59.9% 477/650
Private rented 11.4% 494/650
Social rented 26.8% 88/650
White 94.5% 329/650
Black 0.9% 283/650
Asian 2.2% 349/650
Managerial & professional 26.5%
Routine & Semi-routine 29.8%
Degree level 22.0% 435/650
No qualifications 30.2% 90/650
Students 7.8% 239/650
2021 Census
Owner occupied 61.9% 375/573
Private rented 13.2% 519/573
Social rented 25.0% 70/573
White 92.1%
Black 1.1%
Asian 3.2%
Managerial & professional 29.7% 352/573
Routine & Semi-routine 27.0% 180/573
Degree level 30.4% 323/573
No qualifications 23.0% 94/573
General Election 2019: Garston and Halewood
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Maria Eagle 38,578 72.3 -5.4
Conservative Neva Novaky 6,954 13.0 -4.7
Liberal Democrats Kris Brown 3,324 6.2 +3.0
Brexit Party Jake Fraser 2,943 5.5
Green Jean-Paul Roberts 1,183 2.2 +0.8
Liberal Hazel Williams 344 0.6
Lab Majority 31,624 59.3 -0.7
Turnout 53,326 70.1 -1.4
[/quote]Labour hold
Swing 0.3 Lab to C
2019 Notional results
| Lab | 35203 | 69.1% |
| Con | 6942 | 13.6% |
| LD | 4904 | 9.6% |
| BxP | 2271 | 4.5% |
| Grn | 1270 | 2.5% |
| Oth | 383 | 0.8% |
| Majority | 28261 | 55.4% |
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