Liverpool Wavertree (UK Parliament constituency)

Liverpool, Wavertree
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Liverpool, Wavertree in Merseyside.
Location of Merseyside within England.
County	Merseyside
Electorate	61,679 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1997
Member of parliament	Luciana Berger (Labour Co-op)
Number of members	One
Created from	Liverpool Broadgreen, Liverpool Mossley Hill
1918–1983
Number of members	One
Type of constituency	Borough constituency
Replaced by	Liverpool Broadgreen, Liverpool Mossley Hill and Liverpool Garston
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	North West England

Liverpool, Wavertree is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Luciana Berger of the Labour Co-operative Party (which denotes she is a member of the Labour Party and Co-operative Party, one of 27 current Labour MPs, and requires members to contribute practically to a cooperative business).

1918-1950: The County Borough of Liverpool wards of Allerton, Childwall and Little Woolton, Garston, Much Woolton, Wavertree, and Wavertree West.

1950-1983: The County Borough of Liverpool wards of Old Swan, Wavertree, and Wavertree West.

1997-2010: The City of Liverpool wards of Broadgreen, Childwall, Church, Kensington, Old Swan, and Picton.

2010–present: The City of Liverpool wards of Childwall, Church, Kensington and Fairfield, Old Swan, Picton, and Wavertree.

The constituency is one of five covering the city of Liverpool, and covers the localities in the eastern parts of the city such as Wavertree, Broadgreen, Childwall, Edge Hill, Kensington, Fairfield, part of Mossley Hill and Old Swan.

The present Liverpool Wavertree constituency dates from 1997. It contained parts of the former constituencies of Liverpool Broadgreen and Liverpool Mossley Hill. It was held by Jane Kennedy of the Labour Party from 1997 to 2010, the former Broadgreen MP. The Liberal Democrats are the main and realistic challenge to Labour since 1997, as is the case in other Liverpool constituencies - in the 2005 election the Labour lead over the Liberal Democrats was cut from 38 points to 15 points. For the 2010 election Jane Kennedy stood down (retired as an MP) and Luciana Berger was announced as Labour's new candidate, which caused some friction and controversy in the local constituency party, such as concerns that Berger is not locally-rooted (she is originally from North London), and her associations with out-going MP Kennedy.