Liverpool Fairfield (UK Parliament Constituency)
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Liverpool Fairfield was a
borough constituency In the United Kingdom (UK), each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one member to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons. Within the United Kingdom there are five bodies with members elected by ...
in
Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...
which returned one
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(MP) to the
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of the
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from
1918 This year is noted for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide. Events Below, the events ...
, until it was abolished for the 1950 general election.


Boundaries

The County Borough of Liverpool wards of Fairfield and Old Swan, and part of Kensington ward.


Members of Parliament


Elections


Elections in the 1910s


Elections in the 1920s


Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1939–40 Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected; *Conservative:
Edmund Brocklebank Sir Clement Edmund Royds Brocklebank (28 August 1882 – 24 August 1949) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1924 to 1929, and from 1931 to 1945. At the 1923 general election, he was an unsucces ...
*Labour:
Arthur Moody Arthur Seymour Moody (6 June 1891 – 12 December 1976Stenton and Lees' "Who's Who of British MPs" (Vol IV, p. 263) gives his year of death as 1971, but appears to be in error: "Who's Who" continued his entry until the 1977 edition and in 1978 gi ...
Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939


Elections in the 1940s


References

* {{Liverpool Constituencies Parliamentary constituencies in North West England (historic) Fairfield Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1918 Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1950