Liverpool Mossley Hill was a

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centred on the

Mossley Hill Mossley Hill is a suburb of Liverpool and a Liverpool City Council ward. Located to the south of the city, it is bordered by Aigburth, Allerton, Childwall, and Wavertree. At the 2001 Census, the population was 12,650, increasing to 13,816 at t ...

suburb of

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 ...

. It returned one

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(MP) to the

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of the

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, elected by the

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voting system.

History

The City of Liverpool wards of Aigburth, Church, Grassendale, Picton, and Smithdown. The constituency was created for the 1983 general election; half of its territory was previously in the abolished constituency of Liverpool Edge Hill. The constituency returned the same MP throughout its existence:

David Alton David Patrick Paul Alton, Baron Alton of Liverpool, (born 15 March 1951) is a British politician. He is a former Liberal Party and later Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament who has sat as a crossbench member of the House of Lords since 1997 ...

, who initially represented the Liberals, then from 1988 was a

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, after the Liberals' merger with the

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. Alton had first been elected to parliament at a by-election in March 1979 for Liverpool Edge Hill, and held that seat until its abolition in 1983. The constituency was abolished for the 1997 general election; Alton retired from the Commons and was appointed a cross-bench member of the House of Lords, and the Mossley Hill area itself was transferred to the redrawn constituency of Liverpool Riverside, a safe Labour seat.

History

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 1980s

Elections in the 1990s

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