Sefton Central (UK Parliament constituency)
Coordinates: 53°31′23″N 2°59′06″W / 53.523°N 2.985°W
| Sefton Central | |
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| Borough constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
 Boundary of Sefton Central in Merseyside. |
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 Location of Merseyside within England. |
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| County | Merseyside |
| Electorate | 67,696 (December 2010)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2010 |
| Member of Parliament | Bill Esterson (Labour) |
| Number of members | One |
| Created from | Crosby, Knowsley North & Sefton East |
| Overlaps | |
| European Parliament constituency | North West England |
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.
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[edit] 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]
[edit] 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.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Election | Member [4] | Party | |
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| 2010 | Bill Esterson | Labour | |
[edit] Elections
[edit] Elections in the 2010s
| General Election 2010: Sefton Central[5] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Bill Esterson | 20,307 | 41.9 | -3.7 | |
| Conservative | Debi Jones | 16,445 | 33.9 | +0.4 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Richard Clein | 9,656 | 19.9 | +0.7 | |
| UKIP | Peter Harper | 2,055 | 4.2 | +3.5 | |
| Majority | 3,862 | 8.0 | |||
| Turnout | 48,463 | 71.8 | +11.0 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | +2.0 | |||
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. http://www.boundarycommissionforengland.org.uk/electoral-figures/electoral-figures.htm. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ^ The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 2007, Office of Public Sector Information
- ^ Sefton Central Tory candidate billboards defaced BBC News website, April 30 2010. Accessed 30 December 2011
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 2)
- ^ ukpollingreport
