Norwood is an area and

Metropolitan Borough of Sefton The Metropolitan Borough of Sefton is a metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England. It was formed on Local Government Act 1972, 1 April 1974, by the amalgamation of the county boroughs of Bootle and Southport, the municipal borough of Crosby, ...

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in the Southport Parliamentary constituency that covers the localities of

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and Highpark in the town of

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Councillors

Councillor
Bill Welsh
an
Marianne Welsh
both left the Liberal Democrats in July 2017. Later that year in September, they both rejoined

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representing

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for Norwood ward. In 2019, neither Bill Welsh or Marianne Welsh contested that year's local election. Steven Myers and Carran Janet Waterfield, both

candidates, were elected, albeit with a much-reduced majority. A previous councillor for the ward is Ronnie Fearn, the former

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MP for

Election results

Councillors are elected every four years. The

elects a third of there councillors each election therefore there is an election every year apart from the fourth year.

Elections of the 2020s

Note: The May 2020 election was postponed due to the

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, and was rescheduled in May 2021

Elections of the 2010s

References

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