Stoke-on-Trent South (UK Parliament constituency)

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Stoke-on-Trent South Borough constituency

Stoke-on-Trent South shown within Staffordshire, and Staffordshire shown within England
Created:	1950
MP:	Robert Flello
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Staffordshire
EP constituency:	West Midlands

Stoke-on-Trent 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.

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

[edit] Boundaries

A safe Labour seat like the other Stoke-on-Trent constituencies,this at least has the best middle-class Tory ward in the city (Trentham),though it is mostly out-voted by working class areas surrounding it.

[edit] Members of Parliament

1950 – 1966: Ellis Smith, Labour
1966 – 1992: Jack Ashley, Labour
1992 – 2005: George Stevenson, Labour
2005 – present: Robert Flello, Labour

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Stoke-on-Trent South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Flello	17,727	46.9	-6.9
	Conservative	Mark Deaville	9,046	23.9	-0.7
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Martin	5,894	15.6	+2.5
	British National	Mark Leat	3,305	8.7	+4.9
	UK Independence	Neville Benson	1,043	2.8	N/A
	Veritas	Grant Allen	805	2.1	N/A
Majority			3,152	23.0	-6.2
Turnout			37,820	53.6	+1.8
	Labour hold		Swing	-3.1

General Election 2001: Stoke-on-Trent South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Stevenson	19,366	53.8	-8.2
	Conservative	Philip Bastiman	8,877	24.6	+2.3
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Coleman	4,724	13.1	+2.9
	Independent (politician)	Adrian Knapper	1,703	4.7	N/A
	British National	Steven Batkin	1,358	3.8	+2.5
Majority			10,489	29.2
Turnout			36,028	51.4	-14.4
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] See also

List of Parliamentary constituencies in Staffordshire

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)