History
The Borough of Liverpool exercised the privilege of sending two membera to Parliament in 1295 and 1307, but then for 240 years the right oontinued wholly suspended. In the first Parliament of Edward VI, which met 4 November 1547, tho Elective Franchise was restored to the two Lancashire Boroughs of Liverpool and Wigan and has since continued almost without further intermission.
Representation was increased to three Members in 1868 and the constituency abolished in 1885, to be replaced by the nine new constituencies of Abercromby, East Toxteth, Everton, Exchange, Kirkdale, Scotland, Walton, West Derby and West Toxteth.
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