Back to Constituencies
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
North West
75,194 electors
Active Seat

Bootle

Current MP
Peter Dowd
Peter Dowd

🗳️ Election History

5
Elections
62.0%
Avg Turnout
0
Times Changed
2010
Current Party Since
Labour Peter Dowd Hold
Majority 21,983
Turnout 53.2% ↓12.5pp
Total Votes 38,880
Winner Swing ↓10.7pp
✓ Peter Dowd
Labour
26,729 68.8%
↓10.7pp
Darren Burns
Reform UK
4,746 12.2%
↑6.9pp
Neil Doolin
Green Party
3,904 10.0%
↑7.7pp
Rowena Bass
Conservative
1,674 4.3%
↓4.9pp
John Gibson
Liberal Democrats
1,301 3.4%
↓0.4pp
Ian Smith
Workers Party of Britain
526 1.4%
—
Labour Peter Dowd Hold
Majority 34,556
Turnout 65.7% ↓3.3pp
Total Votes 49,174
Winner Swing ↓4.6pp
✓ Peter Dowd
Labour
39,066 79.4%
↓4.6pp
Tarsilo Onuluk
Conservative
4,510 9.2%
↓2.9pp
Kim Knight
—
2,610 5.3%
—
Rebecca Hanson
Liberal Democrats
1,822 3.7%
↑2.0pp
Mike Carter
Green Party
1,166 2.4%
↑1.0pp
Labour Peter Dowd Hold
Majority 36,200
Turnout 69.0% ↑4.6pp
Total Votes 50,288
Winner Swing ↑9.6pp
✓ Peter Dowd
Labour
42,259 84.0%
↑9.6pp
Charles Fifield
Conservative
6,059 12.1%
↑4.0pp
David Newman
Liberal Democrats
837 1.7%
↓0.5pp
Alison Gibbon
Green Party
709 1.4%
↓1.9pp
Kim Bryan
—
424 0.8%
—
Labour Peter Dowd Hold
Majority 28,704
Turnout 64.4% ↑6.6pp
Total Votes 45,152
Winner Swing ↑8.0pp
✓ Peter Dowd
Labour
33,619 74.5%
↑8.0pp
Paul Nuttall
—
4,915 10.9%
↑4.8pp
Jade Marsden
Conservative
3,639 8.1%
↓0.9pp
Lisa Tallis
Green Party
1,501 3.3%
—
David Newman
Liberal Democrats
978 2.2%
↓13.0pp
Peter Glover
—
500 1.1%
↓0.0pp
Labour Joe Benton Hold
Majority 21,181
Turnout 57.8%
Total Votes 41,277
✓ Joe Benton
Labour
27,426 66.4%
↓4.6pp
James Murray
Liberal Democrats
6,245 15.1%
↓1.4pp
Sohail Qureshi
Conservative
3,678 8.9%
↑1.5pp
Paul Nuttall
—
2,514 6.1%
↑2.8pp
Charles Stewart
—
942 2.3%
—
Pete Glover
—
472 1.1%
—

Turnout Trend

57.8%
'10
64.4%
'15
69.0%
'17
65.7%
'19
53.2%
'24

👥 Demographics

▲▼ changes shown vs 2011 Census
📊 Age
0 to 17
21.3%
50 to 64
20.5%
35 to 49
19.5%
65 and over
17.7% ▲1.9pp
25 to 34
13.8%
18 to 24
7.1%
🌍 Ethnicity
White
95.4%
Asian or Asian British
1.6%
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups
1.4%
Other
0.9%
Black, African, Caribbean or Black British
0.7%
📊 Age
Under 18
21.3%
18 to 29
21.0%
45 to 64
20.5%
30 to 44
19.5%
65 and over
17.7%
⛪ Religion
Christian
64.9%
No religion
28.3%
Not answered
4.7%
Muslim
0.9%
Hindu
0.5%
Other religion
0.3%
Buddhist
0.3%
Jewish
0.1%
Sikh
0.1%
🌍 Ethnicity
White
97.6%
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups
1.0%
Asian or Asian British
0.8%
Black, African, Caribbean or Black British
0.3%
Other ethnic group
0.3%
📊 Age
45 to 64
26.9%
Under 18
22.0%
30 to 44
19.1%
18 to 29
16.2%
65 and over
15.8%
⛪ Religion
Christian
78.2%
No religion
14.6%
Religion not stated
6.2%
Muslim
0.4%
Other religion
0.2%
Hindu
0.2%
Buddhist
0.2%
Jewish
0.1%
Sikh
0.0%

Previous MPs

Historical representatives of this constituency
MP Name Party From To
Mr Joe Benton Labour 1990-11-08 2015-03-30
Mike Carr Labour 1990-05-24 1990-07-20
Allan Roberts Labour 1979-05-03 1990-03-21