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Crosby
Formerborough constituency for theHouse of Commons
Boundary of Crosby in Merseyside for the 2005 general election
Location of Merseyside within England
County	Merseyside
1950–2010
Seats	One
Created from	Waterloo
Replaced by	Sefton Central,Bootle

Crosby was aconstituency inMerseyside, represented in theHouse of Commons of theParliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 until 2010. It elected oneMember of Parliament (MP) by thefirst past the post system of election.

Prior to 1997, the constituency was seen as asafe seat for theConservative Party. They held the seat from its creation in 1950 until the death in 1981 ofSir Graham Page. The resultingby-election was notable as it was won byShirley Williams, one of the "gang of four" senior members of theLabour Party who had founded the newSocial Democratic Party (SDP), becoming the first SDP member to be elected. However, Williams lost the seat to the Conservative candidateMalcolm Thornton at the1983 general election.

Thornton held the seat until the1997 election, when he lost to Labour'sClaire Curtis-Thomas who held the seat until its abolition. On 7 October 2009, it was announced that Curtis-Thomas would stand down at the2010 general election.^[1]

1950–1955: The Borough of Crosby, and the parish of Ford in the Rural District of West Lancashire.^[2]

1955–1974: The Borough of Crosby, and the Urban District of Litherland.

1974–1983: The Borough of Crosby, the Urban District of Formby, and in the Rural District of West Lancashire the parishes of Altcar, Ince Blundell, Maghull, Sefton (part), and Thornton.

1983–1997: The Metropolitan Borough of Sefton wards of Blundellsands, Harington, Manor, Molyneux, Park, Ravenmeols, Sudell, and Victoria.

1997–2010: The Metropolitan Borough of Sefton wards of Blundellsands, Church, Harington, Manor, Ravenmeols, and Victoria.

The predecessor seat to Crosby was theWaterloo constituency, which existed between 1918 and 1950. Crosby constituency covered the whole town ofCrosby which includes the localities ofGreat Crosby,Blundellsands,Brighton-le-Sands,Seaforth,Waterloo,Little Crosby,Hightown andThornton, as well as the town ofFormby and the village ofLittle Altcar, all inSefton inMerseyside. On its abolition in 2010 it was bordered to the north by the constituency ofSouthport, to the east byLancashire West andKnowsley North and Sefton East, and to the south byBootle.

Following a review by theBoundary Commission for England, the Crosby constituency was abolished at the2010 general election. It was replaced by the newSefton Central seat, which includes parts of the former Knowsley North and Sefton East constituency. As a result,Formby andLittle Altcar are part of the newSefton Central constituency and the town of Crosby has been divided between two constituencies, with the two electoral wards of southern Crosby, Church and Victoria, containing the urbanised bulk of the town which includes the areas ofGreat Crosby,Waterloo andSeaforth, being absorbed into the expandedBootle constituency, represented by the Labour MPJoe Benton, and the two electoral wards of northern Crosby,Blundellsands and Manor, which contains residential suburban areas such as,Blundellsands,Brighton-Le-Sands,Little Crosby,Thornton, andHightown, forming part of the newSefton Central constituency represented byBill Esterson, also a Labour MP.

• List of parliamentary constituencies in Merseyside

• Crosby UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 1997 – April 2010) atMapIt UK

• Parliamentary constituencies in Merseyside (historic)
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1950
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 2010
• Politics of the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton
• Crosby, Merseyside

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