Garston and Halewood is a

constituency An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger State (polity), state (a country, administrative region, ...

created in 2010 represented in the

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of the

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since 2010 by

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of the Labour Party.

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 Hough Green is a residential area of the town of Widnes, within the borough of Halton, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Historically, it was part of Lancashire until 1974. From 2014, Hough Green became a part of the Liverpool City R ...

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

Mersey Estuary The River Mersey () is in North West England. Its name derives from Old English and means "boundary river", possibly referring to its having been a border between the ancient kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria. For centuries it has formed part ...

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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Garston And Halewood (Uk Parliament Constituency) Politics of the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley Politics of Liverpool Liverpool parliamentary constituencies Parliamentary constituencies in North West England Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 2010