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Liverpool East Toxteth was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Boundaries

1885–1918: Part of the civil parish of Toxteth.

1918–1950: The County Borough of Liverpool wards of Aigburth, Granby, Sefton Park East, and Sefton Park West.

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

Elections in the 1890s

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1914–15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

• Unionist: James Stuart Rankin
• Liberal: John Lea

Elections in the 1920s

* Rathbone was a member of Liverpool City Council at the time of the election, and received support from the local Liberal association and the Women's Citizenship Association.

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1939–40

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

• Conservative: Patrick Buchan-Hepburn
• Liberal: Lyon Blease

Elections in the 1940s

References

1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 1)
2. Craig, F. W. S. (1983) . British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 139. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
3. Craig, F. W. S. (1983) . British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 173. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
4. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
5. ^ The Liberal Year Book, 1907
6. ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
7. The Constitutional Year Book, 1904, published by Conservative Central Office, page 170 (194 in web page)
8. ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
9. Lincolnshire Echo 9 May 1914
10. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
11. ‘BOWRING, Sir Frederick Charles’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 5 Oct 2017
12. The Liberal Magazine, 1939

• Historic parliamentary constituencies of Liverpool
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1885
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1950
• Toxteth