was a constituency within the city and metropolitan borough of
Liverpool , in the
English county of
Merseyside , centred around
Edge Hill . It was created in 1918 and abolished in 1983.
The seat saw two
By-election s, in 1947 and 1979, following the deaths of its incumbent
Members Of Parliament the second by-election seeing a large swing against Labour who lost the seat to the Liberals - a defeat which overshadowed Labour's defeat in the 1979 General Election.
Half of the consituency formed the new Mossley Hill constituency in 1983 which its outgoing MP David Alton also represented.
Michael Howard , later leader of the
Conservative Party , was twice a candidate in the constituency. During that time he started to support
Liverpool FC .
