Coventry South (UK Parliament constituency)

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Coventry South

Borough constituency
Coventry South shown within West Midlands, and West Midlands shown within England
Created:	1950, 1997
MP:	Jim Cunningham
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	West Midlands
EP constituency:	West Midlands

Coventry South is a 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 constituency was created for the 1950 general election, abolished for the February 1974 general election and recreated for the 1997 general election. It is normally inclined to elect Labour MPs, but the Conservatives can win in their better election results.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 4 See also

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

• 1950 – 1959: Elain Burton, Labour
• 1959 – 1964: Philip Hocking, Conservative
• 1964 – February 1974: William Wilson, Labour
• February 1974 – 1997: constituency abolished
• 1997 – present : Jim Cunningham, Labour

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Coventry South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jim Cunningham	18,649	45.8	−4.4
	Conservative	Heather Wheeler	12,394	30.5	+1.0
	Liberal Democrats	Vincent McKee	7,228	17.8	+3.7
	Socialist Alternative	Rob Windsor	1,097	2.7	N/A
	UK Independence	William Brown	829	2.0	N/A
	Independent	Irene Rogers	344	0.8	−0.6
	Families First	James Rooney	144	0.4	N/A
Majority			6,255	15.4
Turnout			40,685	59.1	+3.8
	Labour hold		Swing	−2.7

General Election 2001: Coventry South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jim Cunningham	20,125	50.2	-0.7
	Conservative	Heather Wheeler	11,846	29.5	+0.5
	Liberal Democrats	Vincent McKee	5,672	14.1	+4.9
	Socialist Alliance	Rob Windsor	1,475	3.7	N/A
	Independent	Irene Rogers	564	1.4	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Timothy Logan	414	1.0	N/A
Majority			8,279	20.7
Turnout			40,096	55.3	-13.4
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Coventry South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jim Cunningham	25,511	50.9	N/A
	Conservative	Paul Ivey	14,558	29.0	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Gordon MacDonald	4,617	9.2	N/A
	Socialist Alternative	Dave Nellist	3,262	6.5	N/A
	Referendum Party	P. Garratt	943	1.9	N/A
	Liberal	R. Jenking	725	1.4	N/A
	British National	J. Ashberry	328	0.7	N/A
	Rainbow Dream Ticket	A. Bradshaw	180	0.4	N/A
Majority			10,953		N/A
Turnout				69.8	N/A
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Midlands

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)