Sefton Central (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Sefton Central Borough constituency |
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| Sefton Central shown within Merseyside, and Merseyside shown within England | |
| Created: | 2005 for 2009 |
| MP: | MP |
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| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Merseyside |
| EP constituency: | North West England |
Sefton Central is to be a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It will elect one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The seat has been 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 will both be abolished. The new constituency will cover Crosby, Formby and Maghull in the metropolitan borough of Sefton. The electoral wards in the new constituency as follows:
- Blundellsands
- Harington
- Manor
- Molyneux
- Park
- Ravenmeols
- Sudell
[edit] Election results
This seat will be fought for the first time at the next United Kingdom general election, which must be held by June 2010.
Eleven of the constituency's twenty-one councillors are Conservatives, followed by the Liberal Democrats who have ten. Share of the vote based on the 2007 local election in these seven wards is: Conservative 41.1% Liberal Democrat 34.6% Labour 21.4%. However local election results do not always have a direct bearing on general election results.
Analysis by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher indicates that had the Sefton Central constituency existed in 2005, the result would have been: Labour 45.6%, Conservative 33.6%, LibDem 19.2%, a Labour majority of 4,950.
[edit] Candidates
- Richard Clein (Liberal Democrats)
- Claire Curtis-Thomas (Labour)[citation needed]
- Peter Harper (UK Independence)
- Debi Jones (Conservative)
[edit] See also
- Constituencies in the next United Kingdom general election
- List of Parliamentary constituencies on Merseyside
