Waterloo (UK Parliament constituency)

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Waterloo
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
19181950
Number of members one

Waterloo was a parliamentary constituency centred on the district of Waterloo north of Liverpool in Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

History

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election. It was abolished for the 1950 general election.

Boundaries

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Members of Parliament

Election Member Party
1918 Albert Buckley Coalition Conservative
1922 Conservative
1923 Malcolm Bullock Conservative
1950 constituency abolished: see Crosby

Election results

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Waterloo
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Albert Buckley 12,967 67.3
Liberal Nessie Stewart-Brown 6,300 32.7
Majority 6,667 34.6
Turnout 19,267 69.4
Unionist hold Swing
General Election 1923: Waterloo [1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Harold Malcolm Bullock 10,615
Liberal Sir Robert Lowden Connell 9,965
Majority 650
Turnout
Unionist hold Swing
General Election 1924: Waterloo [2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Harold Malcolm Bullock 15,704
Labour George Frank Titt 6,116
Majority 9,588
Turnout
Unionist hold Swing
General Election 1929: Waterloo [3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Harold Malcolm Bullock 17,299 52.1
Labour John Clifford Leigh 8,142 24.5
Liberal Frederic Aked Sellars 7,728 23.3 n/a
Majority 9,157 27.6
Turnout 33,169
Unionist hold Swing
General Election 1945
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Harold Malcolm Bullock 19,650 47.4
Labour P Vos 13,795 33.3
Liberal JD Weir 7,823 18.8
Independent C Foster 195 0.5
Majority 5,855 14.1

References

  1. The Times House of Commons, 1929
  2. The Times House of Commons, 1929
  3. The Times House of Commons, 1929
  4. Election results 1931 PoliticsResources
  5. Election results 1931 PoliticsResources