Southampton Test (UK Parliament constituency)

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Southampton Test
Borough constituency

Southampton Test shown within Hampshire, and Hampshire shown within England
Created: 1950
MP: Alan Whitehead
Party: Labour
Type: House of Commons
County: Hampshire
EP constituency: South East England

Southampton Test is a constituency of 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.

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[edit] Boundaries

The seat covers the western part of the City of Southampton, in southern England and is named after the River Test, one of the city's two rivers. It covers the leafy northern suburbs and the western port areas as well as the council housing estates of the western fringes. It is seen as the marginally more affluent of the two constituencies in the city, and has had more Tory tradition than its neighbour Southampton Itchen — named after the other major river).

Southampton Test covers the city wards of (with their associated neighbourhoods):

    • Bassett (Bassett, Bassett Green, Lordswood)
    • Bevois (Northam, part of St. Marys)
    • Coxford (Lord's Hill, Aldermoor)
    • Freemantle (Freemantle, part of Shirley)
    • Millbrook (Millbrook)
    • Portswood (Portswood, Highfield (including the University), St. Denys)
    • Redbridge (Redbridge, Maybush)
    • Shirley (part of Shirley, Upper Shirley)
    • Swaythling (Swaythling)

The constituency is bounded to the east by Southampton Itchen (Labour), to the north by Romsey (Liberal Democrat) and in to the west by New Forest East (Conservative).

[edit] Members of Parliament

The seat is represented currently by the Labour Party MP Alan Whitehead.

[edit] Elections

General Election 2005: Southampton Test
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alan Whitehead 17,845 42.7 −9.8
Conservative Stephen MacLoughlin 10,827 25.9 +0.4
Liberal Democrats Steve Sollitt 10,368 24.8 +6.7
Green John Spottiswoode 1,482 3.5 N/A
UK Independence Peter Day 1,261 3.0 +1.1
Majority 7,018 16.8
Turnout 41,783 53.7 −2.6
Labour hold Swing −5.1
General Election 2001: Southampton Test
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alan Whitehead 21,824 52.5 -1.7
Conservative Richard Gueterbock 10,617 25.5 -2.5
Liberal Democrats John Shaw 7,522 18.1 +4.4
UK Independence Garry Rankin-Moore 792 1.9 +1.5
Socialist Alliance Mark Abel 442 1.1 N/A
Socialist Labour Paramjit Bahia 378 0.9 N/A
Majority 11,207 27.0
Turnout 41,575 56.3 -15.4
Labour hold Swing

[edit] See also

Constituencies in South East England
Conservative

Aldershot | Arundel and South Downs | Ashford | Aylesbury | Banbury | Basingstoke | Beaconsfield | Bexhill and Battle | Bognor Regis and Littlehampton | Bracknell | Buckingham | Canterbury | Chesham and Amersham | Chichester | East Hampshire | East Surrey | East Worthing and Shoreham | Eastbourne | Epsom and Ewell | Esher and Walton | Fareham | Faversham and Mid Kent | Folkestone and Hythe | Gosport | Gravesham | Guildford | Havant | Henley | Horsham | Isle of Wight | Maidenhead | Maidstone and The Weald | Mid Sussex | Mole Valley | New Forest East | New Forest West | Newbury | North East Hampshire | North East Milton Keynes | North Thanet | North West Hampshire | Reading East | Reigate | Runnymede and Weybridge | Sevenoaks | South West Surrey | Spelthorne | Surrey Heath | Tonbridge and Malling | Tunbridge Wells | Wantage | Wealden | Windsor | Witney | Woking | Wokingham | Worthing West | Wycombe

Labour

Brighton Kemptown | Brighton Pavilion | Chatham and Aylesford | Crawley | Dartford | Dover | Gillingham | Hastings and Rye | Hove | Medway | Milton Keynes South West | Oxford East | Portsmouth North | Reading West | Sittingbourne and Sheppey | Slough | Southampton Itchen | Southampton Test | South Thanet

Liberal Democrat

Eastleigh | Lewes | Oxford West and Abingdon | Portsmouth South | Romsey | Winchester

South East European constituency: Conservative (4) | UKIP (2) | Liberal Democrats (2) | Labour (1) | Green (1)