The Liverpool Garston seat was abolished at the 2010 general election following boundary changes. It was replaced with a new Garston and Halewood constituency, also covering part of the Knowsley borough.
Proposededit
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the next general election, due by January 2025, the re-established constituency will be composed of the following wards of the City of Liverpool (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
Allerton and Hunts Cross; Belle Vale; Church; Cressington; Speke-Garston; Woolton.[3]
The seat will comprise the City of Liverpool wards currently in the, to be abolished, constituency of Garston and Halewood, with the addition of Church ward from Liverpool Wavertree.
Liverpool was subject to a comprehensive local government boundary review which came into effect in May 2023[4][5]. Accordingly, the proposed boundaries no longer coincide with ward boundaries and the constituency will now comprise the following wards or part wards of the City of Liverpool from the next general election:
Allerton; Belle Vale; Calderstones; Childwall (small part); Church (small part); Garston; Gateacre (nearly all); Grassendale & Cressington; Mossley Hill (small part); Much Woolton & Hunts Cross; Penny Lane (majority); Speke; Springwood; Woolton Village.[6]
Historyedit
The Labour Party held Liverpool Garston from the 1983 general election until the constituency was abolished. Prior to that time the constituency was a fairly safe Conservative seat until Labour gained it in 1974, with the Conservatives regaining it in 1979 for the last time. The Conservative share of the vote declined to less than 10% in the 2005 election, when they came third behind the Liberal Democrats.