History
The constituency was created for the 1983 general election; half of its territory was previously in the abolished constituency of Liverpool Edge Hill. The boundary of this constituency where the wards Picton, Kensington, Arundel and Aigburth. Smithdown was a safe Alliance ward so too was Arundel. Aigburth was quite significantly Conservative. Picton was marginal between all three parties and Kensingtn a safe Labour ward which at one point had a militant labour councillor.
The constituency returned the same MP throughout its existence: David Alton, initially a Liberal, then a Liberal Democrat from 1988, after the merger with the Social Democratic Party. Alton was first 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 Mossley Hill ward was transferred to the redrawn constituency of Liverpool Riverside, a safe Labour seat.
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