Sefton Central (UK Parliament constituency)

Sefton Central is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The seat was created during the Boundary Commission for England's review of constituencies.

Boundaries

The constituency replaces that of Crosby along with part of Knowsley North and Sefton East, which have both been abolished. The new constituency covers the northern residential suburban areas of Crosby, Blundellsands, Brighton-Le-Sands, Little Crosby, Thornton, and Hightown, Formby and Maghull and the villages and localities of Aintree, Carr Houses, Freshfield, Ince Blundell, Kennessee Green, Lady Green, Little Altcar, Lunt, Lydiate, Melling, Sefton, and Waddicar, in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton. The electoral wards in the new constituency are as follows:^[2]

• Blundellsands
• Harington
• Manor
• Molyneux
• Park
• Ravenmeols
• Sudell

History

This seat was fought for the first time at the 2010 general election.

At the time eleven of the constituency's twenty-one councillors were Conservatives, followed by the Liberal Democrats who had ten. The share of the vote based on the 2008 local election in these seven wards gave Conservative 42.3% Liberal Democrat 34.2% Labour 18.1%. Analysis by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher indicated that had the Sefton Central constituency existed in 2005, the result would have been: Labour 45.6%, Conservative 33.6%, LibDem 19.2%, giving a Labour majority of 4,950. Some Conservative campaign billboard posters for the Tory candidate Deborah Jones had been defaced during the 2010 election, as had been the case during the 2005 election in Crosby.^[3]

Bill Esterson, the Labour party candidate won the seat in the 2010 general election with a majority of 3,862.

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies on Merseyside

Notes and references