Linacre (ward)

Linacre is a Metropolitan Borough of Sefton ward in the Bootle Parliamentary constituency that covers the area of the town of Bootle historically known as Linacre and which contains Bootle centre, the New Strand Shopping Centre, and Gladstone Dock. The ward population taken at the 2011 census was 12,305.[1]

Etymology

The name Linacre derives from Middle English līn ('flax') and aker ('field'), thus once denoting a place associated with a flax-field.[2]

Councillors
TermCouncillor[3]Party
1993–PresentJohn FaircloughLabour Party
1994–PresentGordon FrielLabour Party
1996–PresentBrenda O'BrienLabour Party

Election results

Elections of the 2010s
Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council Municipal Elections 2011: Linacre[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Cllr John Fairclough 1758 82%
UKIP Robin-Micheal Thompson 191 9%
Liberal Democrats Colin Anderson 110 5%
Conservative Thomas James Moylan 93 4%
Majority
Turnout 2152 28%
Labour hold Swing
Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council Municipal Elections 2010: Linacre[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Gordon Friel 2699 69%
Liberal Democrats Eileen Elizabeth Smith 543 14%
UKIP Paul Andrew Nuttall 457 12%
Conservative Alistair McNeill 211 5%
Majority
Turnout 3910 49%
Labour hold Swing

References
  1. "Ward population 2011". UKcensusdata.com. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  2. The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ed. by Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, and Peter McClure, 4 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), III, p. 1592 [s.v. Linacre]; ISBN 978-0-19-967776-4.
  3. "Sefton Council". Modgov.sefton.gov.uk. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  4. "Sefton Council". Modgov.sefton.gov.uk. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  5. "Sefton Council". Modgov.sefton.gov.uk. Retrieved 20 May 2016.

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