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Metropolitan Borough of Sefton
Geography
Status:	Metropolitan borough
Region:	North West England
Ceremonial County:	Merseyside
Historic County:	Lancashire
Area: - Total	Ranked 209th 153.14 km²
Admin. HQ:	Bootle
ONS code:	00CA
Demographics
Population: - Total (2006 est.) - Density	Ranked 27th 277,400 1811 / km²
Ethnicity:	98.4% White
Politics
Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council http://www.sefton.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	All party (3)
MPs:	Joe Benton, Claire Curtis-Thomas, George Howarth, John Pugh

The Metropolitan Borough of Sefton is a metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England. Its local authority is Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council.

Sefton was formed by the Local Government Act 1972 on April 1, 1974, by the amalgamation of the former county boroughs of Bootle and Southport, and, from the administrative county of Lancashire, the municipal borough of Crosby, the urban districts of Formby and Litherland, and part of the Rural District of West Lancashire. It was placed in the metropolitan county of Merseyside.

The borough consists of a coastal strip of land on the Irish Sea, and extends from Bootle, part of the Liverpool Urban Area, in the south, to Southport in the north. In the south-east, it extends inland to Maghull. The district is bounded by Liverpool to the south, the Knowsley to the south-east, and West Lancashire to the east.

It is named after the village and parish of Sefton, near Maghull. A Sefton Rural District covering some of the villages in the district had existed from 1894 to 1932.

Contents 1 Politics 2 Economy 3 Towns and Villages in Sefton 4 Parliamentary constituencies 5 Town twinning 6 References 7 See Also 8 External links

The existence of Sefton has been an ongoing local controversy, especially in Southport, MPs of which have campaigned for separation from Bootle, and possibly inclusion as a district in the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire.^[1]

MORI polls in the boroughs of Sefton and Wirral in the 2000s showed that more residents in these boroughs identified strongly to Merseyside than to Lancashire or Cheshire respectively (but was less likely to be "very strong" as opposed to "fairly strong"). ^[2]

The council has been under no overall control since the 1980s.

This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Sefton at current basic prices published (pp.240-253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.

Year	Regional Gross Value Added[1]	Agriculture[2]	Industry[3]	Services[4]
1995	2,079	20	496	1,563
2000	2,500	8	468	2,024
2003	2,994	10	418	2,566

^  includes hunting and forestry

^  includes energy and construction

^  includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured

^  Components may not sum to totals due to rounding

• Ainsdale, Aintree
• Birkdale, Blowick, Blundellsands, Bootle
• Churchtown, Crossens
• Ford, Formby
• Great Altcar, Great Crosby
• Hightown
• Ince Blundell
• Litherland, Little Altcar, Little Crosby, Lunt, Lydiate
• Maghull, Marshside, Melling
• Netherton
• Orrell
• Seaforth, Sefton, Southport
• Thornton
• Waterloo, Woodvale

See also: List of Parliamentary constituencies on Merseyside

• Southport
• Crosby
• Bootle
• Knowsley North and Sefton East

• Fort Lauderdale, Florida
• Gdańsk, Poland
• Mons, Belgium

1. ^ Final Recommendations on the Future Local Government of Sefton, Local Government Commission for England, November 1997
2. ^ Sefton poll, where 51% residents belonged strongly to Merseyside, and compared to 35% to Lancshire; Wirral poll, where 45% of residents belonged strongly to Merseyside; compared to 30% to Cheshire. In both boroughs, "very strongly" ratings for the historic county were larger than that for Merseyside, but "fairly strongly" was lower.

• Sefton Short Film Festival - Annual North Liverpool Short Film Festival
• Sefton Coast - An SSSI covering much of the borough's coastline

• Sefton Council
• Vision of Britain

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