Editing Liverpool (section)

=== Liverpool City Council elections ===
{{main|Liverpool City Council|Liverpool City Council elections}}
Every four years, the city elects 85 [[councillor]]s from 64 local council [[Ward (politics)|wards]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ward Maps|url=https://liverpool.gov.uk/council/key-statistics-and-data/ward-information/ward-maps/|website=liverpool.gov.uk|publisher=Liverpool City Council|access-date=25 June 2023|archive-date=25 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230625153502/https://liverpool.gov.uk/council/key-statistics-and-data/ward-information/ward-maps/|url-status=live}}</ref> 

During the [[2023 Liverpool City Council election]], the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] consolidated its control of Liverpool City Council, following on from the previous elections. Out of the total 85 City Council seats up for election, The Labour Party won 61 seats (53.13% of the electorate's total votes), the [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrats]] won 15 seats (21.61% of the votes), the [[Green Party of England and Wales|Green Party]] won three seats (9.76% of the votes), the Liverpool Community Independents won three seats (4.64% of the votes) and the [[Liberal Party (UK, 1989)|Liberal Party]] won the remaining three seats (3.21% of the votes). The [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]], the political party in power at [[2019 United Kingdom general election|national government]], had no representation on Liverpool City Council. Only 27.27% of the eligible Liverpool electorate turned out to vote.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Councillors and committees: Municipal Elections – Thursday, 4th May, 2023|url=https://councillors.liverpool.gov.uk/mgElectionResults.aspx?ID=64&RPID=60182420&_gl=1*1aslcko*_ga*NzEzMDU2MDM4LjE2OTQxNjkwOTA.*_ga_H88ZGQXGY7*MTY5NTY2NTQ0My4yNi4wLjE2OTU2NjU0NDMuMC4wLjA.&_ga=2.236638729.903517196.1695665444-1032910318.1695665444|access-date=25 September 2023|website=liverpool.gov.uk|date=4 May 2023|archive-date=25 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230925202920/https://councillors.liverpool.gov.uk/mgElectionResults.aspx?ID=64&RPID=60182420&_gl=1*1aslcko*_ga*NzEzMDU2MDM4LjE2OTQxNjkwOTA.*_ga_H88ZGQXGY7*MTY5NTY2NTQ0My4yNi4wLjE2OTU2NjU0NDMuMC4wLjA.&_ga=2.236638729.903517196.1695665444-1032910318.1695665444|url-status=live}}</ref>

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| image1            = Steve Rotheram in 2023.JPG
| caption1          = [[Steve Rotheram]], [[Mayor of the Liverpool City Region]]
| image2            = Official portrait of Paula Barker MP crop 2.jpg
| caption2          = [[Paula Barker]], MP for [[Liverpool Wavertree (UK Parliament constituency)|Liverpool Wavertree]]
| image3            = Official portrait of Ian Byrne MP crop 2.jpg
| caption3          = [[Ian Byrne]], MP for [[Liverpool West Derby (UK Parliament constituency)|Liverpool West Derby]]
| image4            = Official portrait of Dan Carden MP crop 2.jpg
| caption4          = [[Dan Carden]], MP for [[Liverpool Walton (UK Parliament constituency)|Liverpool Walton]]
| image5            = Official portrait of Maria Eagle MP crop 2.jpg
| caption5          = [[Maria Eagle]], MP for [[Garston and Halewood (UK Parliament constituency)|Garston and Halewood]]
| image6            = Official portrait of Kim Johnson MP crop 2.jpg
| caption6          = [[Kim Johnson (politician)|Kim Johnson]], MP for [[Liverpool Riverside (UK Parliament constituency)|Liverpool Riverside]]
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Throughout most of the 19th and early 20th centuries, Liverpool was a municipal stronghold of [[Conservative Party (UK)|Tory]]ism. However, support for the Conservative Party in recent times has been among the lowest in any part of Britain, particularly since the [[Monetarism|monetarist]] economic policies of former prime minister [[Margaret Thatcher]]. After the [[1979 United Kingdom general election|1979 general election]], many have claimed that her victory contributed to longstanding high unemployment and decline in the city.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2008/07/21/the-real-legacy-of-margaret-thatcher-is-a-nation-divided-100252-21375195/|title=The real legacy of Margaret Thatcher is a nation divided|website=Liverpool Echo|date=21 July 2008|access-date=5 August 2011|archive-date=13 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013054916/http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2008/07/21/the-real-legacy-of-margaret-thatcher-is-a-nation-divided-100252-21375195/|url-status=live}}</ref> Liverpool is one of the Labour Party's key strongholds; however, the city has also seen hard times under Labour governments. Particularly in the [[Winter of Discontent]] (late 1978 and early 1979) when Liverpool suffered public sector strikes along with the rest of the United Kingdom, but also when it suffered the particularly humiliating misfortune of having [[Gravedigger|grave-diggers]] going on strike, leaving the dead unburied for long periods.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/3067563.stm|publisher=BBC News|first=Paul|last=Wilenius|title=Enemies within: Thatcher and the unions|date=5 March 2004|access-date=6 May 2011|archive-date=18 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218003411/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/3067563.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>