Bromsgrove (UK Parliament constituency)

Bromsgrove County constituency

Bromsgrove shown within Worcestershire, and Worcestershire shown within England
Created:	1950
MP:	Julie Kirkbride
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Worcestershire
EP constituency:	West Midlands

Bromsgrove is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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It covers the same area as Bromsgrove District Council. The constituency extends through North Worcestershire to the villages of Barnt Green, Alvechurch and Tardebigge plus the suburbs of Cofton Hackett, Wythall, Hagley and Hollywood.

Since its split with neighbouring Redditch, it has always returned a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP).

Year		Member	Party
	1950	John Michael Clifford Higgs	Conservative
	1955	James Dance	Conservative
	1971	Terry Davis	Labour
1974		constituency abolished: see Bromsgrove and Redditch
1983		constituency re-established
	1983	Sir Hal Miller	Conservative
	1992	Roy Thomason	Conservative
	1997	Julie Kirkbride	Conservative

General Election 2005: Bromsgrove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Julie Kirkbride	24,387	51.0	−0.7
	Labour	David Jones	14,307	29.9	−4.0
	Liberal Democrats	Sue Haswell	7,197	15.1	+3.2
	UK Independence	Paul Buckingham	1,919	4.0	+1.6
Majority			10,080	21.1
Turnout			47,810	67.6	+0.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 2001: Bromsgrove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Julie Kirkbride	23,640	51.7	+4.6
	Labour	Peter McDonald	15,502	33.9	−3.9
	Liberal Democrats	Margaret Rowley	5,430	11.9	N/A
	UK Independence	Ian Gregory	1,112	2.4	+2.0
Majority			8,138	17.8
Turnout			45,684	67.1	−10.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Constituencies in the West Midlands
Labour	Birmingham Edgbaston \| Birmingham, Erdington \| Birmingham Hall Green \| \|Birmingham Hodge Hill \| Birmingham Northfield \| Birmingham Perry Barr \| Birmingham Selly Oak \| Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath \| Burton \| Cannock Chase \| Coventry North East \| Coventry North West \| Coventry South \| Dudley North \| Dudley South \| Halesowen and Rowley Regis \| Newcastle-under-Lyme \| North Warwickshire \| Nuneaton \| Redditch \| Stafford \| Staffordshire Moorlands \| Stoke-on-Trent Central \| Stoke-on-Trent North \| Stoke-on-Trent South \| Stourbridge \| Tamworth \| Telford \| Walsall North \| Walsall South \| Warley \| Warwick and Leamington \| West Bromwich East \| West Bromwich West \| Wolverhampton North East \| Wolverhampton South East \| Wolverhampton South West \| Worcester
Conservative	Aldridge-Brownhills \| Bromsgrove \| Leominster \| Lichfield \| Ludlow \| Meriden \| Mid Worcestershire \| North Shropshire \| Rugby and Kenilworth \| Shrewsbury and Atcham \| South Staffordshire \| Stone \| Stratford-on-Avon \| Sutton Coldfield \| The Wrekin \| West Worcestershire
Liberal Democrat	Birmingham Yardley \| Hereford \| Solihull
Health Concern	Wyre Forest
Independent	Birmingham, Ladywood
West Midlands European constituency: Conservative (3) \| Labour (2) \| UKIP (1) \| Liberal Democrats (1)