10 Facts About Peter Dowd

Peter Christopher Dowd was born on 20 June 1957 and is a British Labour Party politician.

Peter Dowd was elected as the Member of Parliament for Bootle in May 2015.

Peter Dowd was a Merseyside County Councillor from 1981 to 1986 for Bootle number 1 ward, which is around the Hawthorne road area of Bootle and Derby park area.

Peter Dowd became a Sefton Borough councillor in 1991 when he replaced Joe Benton for the Derby ward.

Peter Dowd was a councillor for Derby from 1991 to 2003, before he moved to St Oswalds ward.

Peter Dowd was chair of Merseyside Fire Authority in the 1990s.

Peter Dowd was elected Sefton Labour group leader after the death of Dave Martin, and was leader until 2015.

Peter Dowd was consequently elected Leader of Sefton Council from 2011 to 2015.

In 2015, he was elected to the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Bootle, which forms part of the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton where Peter Dowd was in local government.

Bootle has traditionally been one of the safest Labour seats in the UK; Peter Dowd succeeded Benton as the seat's MP.