Tamworth (UK Parliament constituency)

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Tamworth County constituency
Tamworth shown within Staffordshire, and Staffordshire shown within England
Created:	1563, 1997
MP:	Brian Jenkins
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Staffordshire
EP constituency:	West Midlands

Tamworth 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.

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

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

• Brian Jenkins, Labour (1996 by-election -present)

Tamworth was the new name for the old Staffordshire South East constituency in 1997

• Sir David Lightbown, Conservative (1983 - 1996)

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Tamworth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Brian Jenkins	18,801	43.0	-6.0
	Conservative	Christopher Pincher	16,232	37.1	-0.5
	Liberal Democrats	Phillip Bennion	6,175	14.1	+2.4
	Veritas	Patrick Eston	1,320	3.0	N/A
	UK Independence	Tom Simpson	1,212	2.8	+1.1
Majority			2,569	5.9	-6.5
Turnout			43,740	61.0	+3.2
	Labour hold		Swing	-2.8

General Election 2001: Tamworth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Brian Jenkins	19,722	49.0	-2.8
	Conservative	Luise Gunter	15,124	37.6	+0.8
	Liberal Democrats	Jennifer Pinkett	4,721	11.7	+3.7
	UK Independence	Paul Sootheran	683	1.7	+1.0
Majority			4,598	11.4
Turnout			40,250	57.8	-16.3
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Tamworth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Brian Jenkins	25,808	51.8	N/A
	Conservative	Lady Lightbown	18,312	36.7	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Jennifer Pinkett	4,025	8.1	N/A
	Referendum Party	D. Livesey	1,163	2.3	N/A
	UK Independence	C. A. Lamb	369	0.7	N/A
	Liberal	C. Twelvetrees	177	0.4	N/A
Majority			7,496		N/A
Turnout				74.2	N/A
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

[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)