That year, Labour won the seat with Margaret Greenwood defeating Conservative MP Esther McVey despite the party losing the general election . This bucked a trend since 1983 where the seat always elected an MP from the party that won the election.
Since then, it has been held by Labour but now that Ms Greenwood has stood down as MP, the field is wide open with five candidates putting themselves forward.READ MORE: The Liverpool City Region General Election 2024 survey: Tell us how you feel about NHS, immigration, Keir Starmer and more The seat has changed too with Conservative voting areas Heswall and Clatterbridge joining the constituency after boundary changes which could swing things in their favour. According to political forecaster Electoral Calculus, they think the Conservatives would have won the seat in 2015 and in 2019 under its new boundaries with Labour only winning it in 2017.
However this time around, their latest poll predicts Labour have a 99% chance of winning with 54.1% of the vote while the Conservatives would get 21%. In 2019, Electoral Calculus said they would have won with 45.5% if the new boundaries had been in place based on votes across all council wards in the seat.
A debate with all candidates is also due to be held on June 27 at West Kirby Grammar School. Five candidates are standing. These are:Don't miss the biggest and breaking stories by signing up to the Echo Daily newsletter here
Wirral Council General Election West Kirby Woodchurch Heswall
United Kingdom Latest News, United Kingdom Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: BBCNewsNI - 🏆 95. / 52 Read more »
Source: MENnewsdesk - 🏆 23. / 69 Read more »
Source: SkySports - 🏆 58. / 63 Read more »
Source: SkySports - 🏆 58. / 63 Read more »
Source: BBCSport - 🏆 111. / 51 Read more »
Source: SkyNews - 🏆 35. / 67 Read more »