Liverpool Kirkdale was a
constituency
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represented in the
House of Commons
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of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom
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covering
Kirkdale, Liverpool
Kirkdale is a district of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and a Liverpool City Council ward that covers both Kirkdale and Vauxhall. At the 2011 Census, the population was 16,115.
History
Kirkdale is a working class area with mainly Victorian t ...
. It elected one
Member of Parliament
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(MP) by the
first past the post
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system of election.
Boundaries
1885–1918: The parish of Kirkdale, and part of the parish of Everton.
1918–1950: The County Borough of Liverpool wards of Kirkdale and St Domingo.
1950–1955: The County Borough of Liverpool wards of Anfield, Breckfield, and Kirkdale.
1955–1974: The County Borough of Liverpool wards of Anfield, Breckfield, Melrose, Tuebrook, and Westminster.
1974–1983: The County Borough of Liverpool wards of Anfield, Breckfield, Melrose, St Domingo, Tuebrook, and Westminster.
Members of Parliament
Election results 1885–1918
Elections in the 1880s
Elections in the 1890s
Baden-Powell's death caused a by-election.
Elections in the 1900s
Elections in the 1910s
Elections 1918–1945
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:
Robert Rankin
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*Labour: John Hamilton
[Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939]
*Liverpool Protestant Party: Henry Dixon Longbottom
Elections in the 1940s
Elections 1950–1979
Elections in the 1950s
Elections in the 1960s
Elections in the 1970s
References
{{Liverpool Constituencies
Kirkdale constituency
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1885
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1983