Waterloo (UK Parliament constituency)

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.

Waterloo
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1918–1950
Seats	one
Created from	Southport
Replaced by	Crosby

History

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

Boundaries

The Urban Districts of Great Crosby, Litherland, Little Crosby, and Waterloo with Seaforth.

Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1918	Albert Buckley	Unionist
	1923	Malcolm Bullock	Unionist
1950		constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

General election 1918: Waterloo

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
C	Unionist	Albert Buckley	13,255	83.5
	Labour	Samuel Reeves	2,619	16.5
Majority			10,636	67.0
Turnout			15,874
	Unionist win (new seat)
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Elections in the 1920s

Stewart-Brown

General election 1922: Waterloo

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Albert Buckley	12,967	67.3	-16.2
	Liberal	Nessie Stewart-Brown	6,300	32.7	New
Majority			6,667	34.6	-32.4
Turnout			19,267	69.4	+2.4
	Unionist hold		Swing

General election 1923: Waterloo

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Malcolm Bullock	10,615	51.2	-16.1
	Liberal	Robert Lowden Connell	9,965	48.4	+15.7
Majority			650	2.4	-32.2
Turnout			20,580
	Unionist hold		Swing	-16.1

General election 1924: Waterloo

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Malcolm Bullock	15,704	72.0	+20.8
	Labour	George Frank Titt	6,116	28.0	New
Majority			9,588	44.0	+41.6
Turnout			21,820
	Unionist hold		Swing

Sellars

General election 1929: Waterloo

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Malcolm Bullock	17,299	52.1	-19.9
	Labour	John Clifford Leigh	8,142	24.5	-3.5
	Liberal	Frederic Aked Sellars	7,728	23.3	New
Majority			9,157	27.6	-16.4
Turnout			33,169
	Unionist hold		Swing	-8.2

Elections in the 1930s

1931 general election: Waterloo

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Malcolm Bullock	Unopposed
	Unionist hold

1935 general election: Waterloo

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Malcolm Bullock	Unopposed
	Unionist hold

Elections in the 1940s

General election 1945: Waterloo

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Malcolm Bullock	19,650	47.4	N/A
	Labour	Philip Vos	13,795	33.3	New
	Liberal	Joseph Daniel Weir	7,823	18.8	New
	Independent	Cyril Foster	195	0.5	New
Majority			5,855	14.1	N/A
Turnout			41,463
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 2)