Liverpool, Wavertree
Labour hold

The Liberal Democrats' dominance of Liverpool City Council has never been consistently translated into success in parliamentary elections in the city, and remains tied closely to its peculiar municipal history and the untypicality of its local Labour Party. Tony Blair can rely on all five of Liverpool's seats in the next election at national level, for the government of the whole land. This even includes Wavertree, where the LDs swept all five wards very easily in the most recent Liverpool elections in May 2000, at a time when they took 26 of the council seats available in the city as a whole to Labour's six (they also took all the wards in Garston).

Jane Kennedy, a junior minister in the Lord Chancellor’s Department after five years as a Whip, was first elected in 1992, as a replacement for the expelled Militant-supporting Terry Fields, and as the first woman MP in Liverpool since Bessie Braddock, than whom she was substantially more photogenic and less physiologically preoccupied by turnstiles in ladies lavatories. Part of the Labour clean-up team to rid Liverpool of Militant, she was born in 1958, attended Haughton Comprehensive School and, inconclusively, Liverpool University. She rose politically as a NUPE/Unison official. A Zionist, she joined the Lord Chancellor’s team as the only non-lawyer.

Area Percent GB Percent Index GB=100   Thriving Wealthy Achievers, Suburban Areas 9.99% 14.99% 66.64 Affluent Greys, Rural Communities 0.00% 2.13% 0.00 Prosperous Pensioners, Retirement Areas 0.18% 2.49% 7.25 Expanding Affluent Executives, Family Areas 0.00% 4.43% 0.00 Well-Off Workers, Family Areas 1.17% 7.27% 16.09 Rising Affluent Urbanites, Town & City Areas 5.24% 2.56% 204.39 Prosperous Professionals, Metropolitan Areas 0.21% 2.04% 10.08 Better-Off Executives, Inner City Areas 6.27% 3.94% 158.97 Settling Comfortable Middle Agers, Mature Home Owning Areas 11.94% 13.04% 91.53 Skilled Workers, Home Owning Areas 21.36% 12.70% 168.14 Aspiring New Home Owners, Mature Communities 2.41% 8.14% 29.63 White Collar Workers, Better-Off Multi Ethnic Areas 4.92% 4.02% 122.26 Striving Older People, Less Prosperous Areas 1.73% 3.19% 54.40 Council Estate Residents, Better-Off Homes 32.16% 11.31% 284.31 Council Estate Residents, High Unemployment 2.30% 3.06% 75.15 Council Estate Residents, Greatest Hardship 0.13% 2.52% 4.99 People in Multi-Ethnic, Low-Income Areas 0.00% 2.10% 0.00 Unclassified Unclassified 0.00% 0.06% 0.00

Area Percent GB Percent Index GB=100   £0-5K 13.79% 9.41% 146.48 £5-10K 20.92% 16.63% 125.76 £10-15K 18.32% 16.58% 110.48 £15-20K 13.44% 13.58% 98.95 £20-25K 9.37% 10.39% 90.18 £25-30K 6.49% 7.77% 83.43 £30-35K 4.53% 5.79% 78.16 £35-40K 3.21% 4.33% 74.00 £40-45K 2.31% 3.27% 70.67 £45-50K 1.69% 2.48% 67.97 £50-55K 1.25% 1.90% 65.74 £55-60K 0.94% 1.47% 63.90 £60-65K 0.72% 1.15% 62.34 £65-70K 0.55% 0.91% 61.02 £70-75K 0.43% 0.72% 59.89 £75-80K 0.34% 0.57% 58.91 £80-85K 0.27% 0.46% 58.05 £85-90K 0.21% 0.37% 57.30 £90-95K 0.17% 0.31% 56.63 £95-100K 0.14% 0.25% 56.03 £100K + 0.72% 1.34% 53.34