title: Garston (Liverpool ward)
text: # Garston (Liverpool ward)
  
  Garston ward is an electoral division of Liverpool City Council centred on the Garston district of the city. It was created in 1902 where three councillors were elected. It was dissolved in 1953.
  
  The ward was recreated in 2023 following a review by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England which decided that the existing 30 wards each represented by three Councillors should be replaced by 64 wards represented by 85 councillors with varying representation by one, two or three councillors per ward. The Garston ward was reinstated as a two-member ward from the western half of the former Speke Garston ward and the southern half of the former Cressington ward. The ward contains the Port of Garston, Garston Leisure Centre, and the New Mersey Shopping Park.
  
  ## Councillors
  
  | Election | Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | Councillor |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1953 - 2022 WARD DISESTABLISHED |||||||
  | 2023 | | Sam Gorst (LCI) | | Lucy Williams (LCI) |
  
  indicates seat up for re-election after boundary changes.
  
  indicates seat up for re-election.
  
  indicates change in affiliation.
  
  indicates seat up for re-election after casual vacancy.
  
  ## Election Results
  
  ### Elections of the 2020s
  
  4th May 2023 :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Liverpool Community Independents | Sam $Gorst^§$ | 1,470 | 26.08 | |
  | | Liverpool Community Independents | Lucy Williams | 1,159 | 20.56 | |
  | | Labour | Sharon $Connor^§$ | 1,022 | 18.13 | |
  | | Labour | Richard David McLean | 832 | 14.76 | |
  | | Liberal Democrats | Peter Millea | 579 | 10.27 | |
  | | Liberal Democrats | Mike McAllister-Bell | 430 | 7.63 | |
  | | Green | Helene Margaret Bridget Santamera | 145 | 2.57 | |
  | Majority | Majority | Majority | 448 | | |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | | |
  | Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | 7 | | |
  | Total ballots | Total ballots | Total ballots | | |
  | Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 8,072 | | |
  | | Community Independents win (new seat) | Community Independents win (new seat) | Community Independents win (new seat) | Community Independents win (new seat) | Community Independents win (new seat) |
  | | Community Independents win (new seat) | Community Independents win (new seat) | Community Independents win (new seat) | Community Independents win (new seat) | Community Independents win (new seat) |
  
  $^§Sam$ Gorst was a re-standing councillor for the former Cressington ward. Sharon Connor was a re-standing councillor for the former Allerton and Hunts Cross ward.
  
  