Metropolitan Borough of St Helens

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Borough of St Helens
St Helens
Geography
Status: Metropolitan borough
Region: North West England
Ceremonial County: Merseyside
Historic county: Lancashire
Area:
- Total
Ranked 221st
136.38 km²
Admin. HQ: St Helens
ONS code: 00BZ
Demographics
Population:
- Total (2005 est.)
- Density
Ranked 86th
176,300
1,293 / km²
Ethnicity: 98.8% White
Politics
St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council
http://www.sthelens.gov.uk/
Leadership: Leader & Cabinet
Executive: Liberal Democrats / Conservative
MPs: David Watts, Shaun Woodward

St Helens is a Metropolitan Borough in Merseyside, England. It is named after the main town, St Helens. Other settlements in the Metropolitan Borough include Newton-le-Willows ,Earlestown, Haydock, Rainhill, Eccleston, Clock Face, Billinge and Rainford.

The Metropolitan Borough was formed on April 1, 1974 as a merger of the former County Borough of St Helens, along with the urban districts of Haydock, Newton-le-Willows and Rainford, and parts of Billinge-and-Winstanley and Ashton-in-Makerfield urban districts, along with part of Whiston Rural District, all from the administrative county of Lancashire.

Between 1974 and 1986 the borough council shared functions with Merseyside County Council. The functions of this body were in part develoved to the boroughs and in part transferred to ad hoc agencies.

The borough borders the borough of Knowsley, within Merseyside, in the south-west, the West Lancashire district of Lancashire in the north, the Greater Manchester borough of Wigan in the north-east, and to the south the unitary authorities of Warrington and Halton.

On 17 May 2006, following local elections held on 4 May, the political control of the Council changed from the Labour Party to a coalition formed by the Liberal Democratic Party and the Conservative Party. Labour had been in power since 1 April 1974 following the first elections to the shadow council in 1973.

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