title: Linacre (ward)
text: # 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.
  
  ## Etymology
  
  The name Linacre derives from Middle English līn ('flax') and aker ('field'), thus once denoting a place associated with a flax-field.
  
  ## Councillors
  
  | Term | Councillor | Party |
  | - | - | - |
  | 1993–Present | John Fairclough | Labour Party |
  | 1994–Present | Gordon Friel | Labour Party |
  | 1996–Present | Brenda O'Brien | Labour Party |
  
  ## Election results
  
  ### Elections of the 2010s
  
  Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council Municipal Elections 2011: Linacre :
  
  | Party | 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 | Majority | Majority | | |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2152 | 28% |
  | | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
  
  Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council Municipal Elections 2010: Linacre :
  
  | Party | 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 | Majority | Majority | | |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 3910 | 49% |
  | | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
  