Luton South (UK Parliament constituency)

Luton South Borough constituency

Luton South shown within Bedfordshire, and Bedfordshire shown within England
Created:	1983
MP:	Margaret Moran
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Bedfordshire
EP constituency:	East of England

Luton 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 and its predecessors the Luton East and Luton constituencies have been called a Bellwether constituency; they have voted for the winning party in each election since the 1950 general election.

[edit] Boundaries

Following their review into parliamentary representation in Bedfordshire and Luton, the Boundary Commission for England made only minor changes to the existing constituencies.

Luton South will be made from electoral wards within the city of Luton, and also one ward from South Bedfordshire district:

From Luton, the wards of Biscot, Crawley, Dallow, Farley, High Town, Round Green, South, Stopsley, Wigmore
From South Bedfordshire, the one ward of Caddington, Hyde and Slip End

The other constituency in Luton is Luton North

Year		Member	Party
	1983	Graham Bright	Conservative
	1997	Margaret Moran	Labour

General Election 2005: Luton South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Margaret Moran	16,610	42.7	−12.5
	Conservative	Richard Stay	10,960	28.2	−1.2
	Liberal Democrats	Qurban Hussain	8,778	22.6	+11.7
	UK Independence	Charles Lawman	957	2.5	+1.0
	Green	Marc Scheimann	790	2.0	0.0
	Respect	Mohammed Ilyas	725	1.9	N/A
	Workers' Revolutionary	Arthur Lynn	98	0.3	0.0
Majority			5,650	14.5
Turnout			38,918	54.1	−1.0
	Labour hold		Swing	−5.6

General Election 2001: Luton South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Margaret Moran	21,719	55.2	+0.3
	Conservative	Gordon Henderson	11,586	29.4	-1.9
	Liberal Democrats	Rabi Martins	4,292	10.9	+1.3
	Green	Marc Scheimann	798	2.0	+1.3
	UK Independence	Charlie Lawman	578	1.5	+0.7
	Socialist Alliance	Jo Hearne	271	0.7	N/A
	Workers' Revolutionary	Robert Bolton	107	0.3	N/A
Majority			10,133	25.8
Turnout			39,351	55.1	-15.4
	Labour hold		Swing

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Conservative	Billericay \| Braintree \| Brentwood and Ongar \| Broxbourne \| Bury St Edmunds \| Castle Point \| Central Suffolk and North Ipswich \| Epping Forest \| Harwich \| Hemel Hempstead \| Hertford and Stortford \| Hertsmere \| Hitchin and Harpenden \| Huntingdon \| Maldon and East Chelmsford \| Mid Bedfordshire \| Mid Norfolk \| North Essex \| North East Bedfordshire \| North East Cambridgeshire \| North East Hertfordshire \| North West Cambridgeshire \| North West Norfolk \| Peterborough \| Rayleigh \| Rochford and Southend East \| Saffron Walden \| Southend West \| South Cambridgeshire \| South East Cambridgeshire \| South Norfolk \| South Suffolk \| South West Bedfordshire \| South West Hertfordshire \| South West Norfolk \| St Albans \| Suffolk Coastal \| Welwyn Hatfield \| West Chelmsford \| West Suffolk
Labour	Basildon \| Bedford \| Great Yarmouth \| Harlow \| Ipswich \| Luton North \| Luton South \| Norwich North \| Norwich South \| Stevenage \| Thurrock \| Watford \| Waveney
Liberal Democrat	Cambridge \| Colchester \| North Norfolk
East of England European constituency: Conservative (3) \| UKIP (2) \| Labour (1) \| Liberal Democrats (1)