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UK Parliament - Liverpool Wavertree

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> United Kingdom > England > North West > North West > Liverpool Wavertree

Office

Parliament

Honorific

Member of Parliament - Abbr: MP

Type

General Election

Filing Deadline

April 20, 2010 - 06:00pm Central

Polls Open

May 06, 2010 - 01:00am Central

Polls Close

May 06, 2010 - 04:00pm Central

Term Start

May 17, 2010 - 12:00pm

Term End

May 17, 2015 - 12:00pm

Contributor

Ralphie

Last Modified

Ralphie May 07, 2010 12:53am

Data Sources

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Description

BBC Profile:
Labour's Jane Kennedy won with a 19,701 majority in 1997 and has represented the seat since. Standing down at this election, she won by a majority of 5,173 in 2005, after an 11.8% swing to the Liberal Democrats.
At the election, the seat gains two part-wards from Garston and Halewood, and a part-ward each from Liverpool Riverside and Liverpool West Derby. It loses one part-ward to Garston and Halewood and Liverpool Walton, two part-wards to Liverpool Riverside and four part-wards to Liverpool West Derby. To find out what might have happened had this boundary change been in force at the last election, see a notional - or estimated - result below.

Situated to the east of the city of Liverpool, the constituency of Wavertree is predominantly residential.

Wavertree hosts a large technology park which has close ties to the university and there is a large student population based here which helps the local economy.

Rallings & Thrasher Notional:
Lab 16,181 (49.51%)
LD 13,270 (40.60%)
C 2,107 (6.45%)
UKIP 652 (2.00%)
Others 471 (1.44%)