The LDRS is taking a look at all four Wirral seats ahead of the 2019 General Election.

The election takes place on December 12 and comes less than two-and-half years after the snap election in 2017.

We have included all the candidates standing in each constituency, plus information on the area covered by the seat.

Here is our guide to Wirral West:

Wirral West boundaries

The Wirral West constituency is made up of Greasby, Frankby and Irby, Hoylake and Meols, Pensby and Thingwall, Upton, and West Kirby and Thurstaston.

Wirral West make-up

At the last election, 55,077 people were eligible to vote in West Wirral, the smallest electorate of any constituency in England.

How the seat voted in previous elections

  • 2010- Esther McVey (Conservative)
  • 2015- Margaret Greenwood (Labour)
  • 2017- Margaret Greenwood (Labour)

In 2017, turnout was at its highest since 1992 at 78.5%.

Candidates standing

  • Margaret Greenwood (Labour)
  • Laura Evans (Conservative)
  • Andy Corkhill (Liberal Democrats)
  • John Coyne (Green)
  • John Kelly (Brexit Party)

Analysis

Wirral West will be crucial to deciding the General Election.

It takes in the Conservative-voting wards of Hoylake and Meols and West Kirby and Thurstaston, Labour-voting Upton and the marginal Pensby and Thingwall.

In 2017, Labour won the seat with a margin of 5,000 votes over the Conservatives, with the Liberal Democrats and Greens far adrift.

But given current polling, this seat is set to be very close on December 12. It is firmly within the Conservatives’ sights.

The seat voted 55% to remain in 2016 and Labour’s nuanced Brexit position could see it lose votes to the Liberal Democrats and the Greens.

The Brexit Party are also standing here and will fancy their chances of picking up disaffected Leave voters who do not like either of the main party leaders.