Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Jan 16, 2024 14:21:11 GMT
This contains content from Merseymike , and Robert Waller
The Bootle constituency occupes the southern end of the borough of Sefton. Bootle does have an identity of its own, and has never been part of Liverpool 'proper', but this is Scouse territory to the core. Much of it is the old Liverpool dockland, and it still has large numbers of small terraced housing and big social housing estates. What is also notable is its parochialism. The six Bootle wards have a lower number of people who travel into the city to work than any Sefton Central or the two former Crosby wards in this seat - Waterloo station is the busiest on the Merseyrail Northern line. People live here and work here, and there are still many local extended families who live within walking distance from each other. Its a seat which - just - voted remain, but given its monolithic Labour vote there are clearly plenty of Labour leavers here.
In the Index of Deprivation (https://mapmaker.cdrc.ac.uk/#/index-of-multiple-deprivation?m=imdh19_dc&lon=-2.9752&lat=53.4617&zoom=11.79) Bootle is bright red, an area of significant economic problems running from the gentrification of Liverpool's docklands to the regeneration around Everton's new stadium at Bradley Dock.
Local council results point to very safe Labour territory: 60%, 70%, and up. This is part of a run of strong Labour wards in the larger Liverpool conurbation, across the mammoth Labour votes in Knowsley and inner Liverpool. At Parliamentary level, Bootle is one of the safest Labour seats in the country: 83% in a six-candidate ballot paper in 1997, 84% in a five-candidate fight in 2017, a 34,500 majority in 2019.
From Robert Waller
From The Guardian, January 2024
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The Bootle constituency occupes the southern end of the borough of Sefton. Bootle does have an identity of its own, and has never been part of Liverpool 'proper', but this is Scouse territory to the core. Much of it is the old Liverpool dockland, and it still has large numbers of small terraced housing and big social housing estates. What is also notable is its parochialism. The six Bootle wards have a lower number of people who travel into the city to work than any Sefton Central or the two former Crosby wards in this seat - Waterloo station is the busiest on the Merseyrail Northern line. People live here and work here, and there are still many local extended families who live within walking distance from each other. Its a seat which - just - voted remain, but given its monolithic Labour vote there are clearly plenty of Labour leavers here.
In the Index of Deprivation (https://mapmaker.cdrc.ac.uk/#/index-of-multiple-deprivation?m=imdh19_dc&lon=-2.9752&lat=53.4617&zoom=11.79) Bootle is bright red, an area of significant economic problems running from the gentrification of Liverpool's docklands to the regeneration around Everton's new stadium at Bradley Dock.
Local council results point to very safe Labour territory: 60%, 70%, and up. This is part of a run of strong Labour wards in the larger Liverpool conurbation, across the mammoth Labour votes in Knowsley and inner Liverpool. At Parliamentary level, Bootle is one of the safest Labour seats in the country: 83% in a six-candidate ballot paper in 1997, 84% in a five-candidate fight in 2017, a 34,500 majority in 2019.
From Robert Waller
2011 Census
Owner-occupied 56.1% 529/650
Private rented 13.5% 361/650
Social rented 28.5% 65/650
White 97.6% 168/650
Black 0.3% 462/650
Asian 0.8% 569/650
Christian 78.2% 9/650
Managerial & professional 21.4%
Routine & Semi-routine 31.8%
Degree level 16.5% 601/650
No qualifications 31.2% 71/650
Students 7.8% 237/650
Age 65+ 15.8% 393/650
2021 Census
Owner occupied 53.2% 475/573
Private rented 19.7% 217/573
Social rented 27.1% 52/573
White 95.3%
Black 0.7%
Asian 1.6%
Christian 64.9% 5/650
Managerial & professional 24.0% 498/573
Routine & Semi-routine 29.4% 108/573
Degree level 24.0% 506/573
No qualifications 24.3% 64/573
General Election 2019: Bootle
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Peter Dowd 39,066 79.4 −4.6
Conservative Tarsilo Onuluk 4,510 9.2 −2.8
Brexit Party Kim Knight 2,610 5.3
Liberal Democrats Rebecca Hanson 1,822 3.7 +2.0
Green Mike Carter 1,166 2.4 +1.0
Lab Majority 34,556 70.2 −1.8
Turnout 49,174 65.7 -3.5
Labour hold
Swing 0.85 Lab to C
[/quote]From The Guardian, January 2024
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Party Votes %
Lab 79.4
Con 9.2
Brexit 5.3
Lib Dem 3.7
