Southampton Test (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Southampton Test Borough constituency |
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| 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] History
The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, when the previous two-member Southampton constituency was abolished.
[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):
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- Bassett (Bassett, Bassett Green, Lordswood)
- Bevois (Northam, part of St. Marys)
- Coxford (Lord's Hill, Aldermoor)
- Freemantle (Freemantle and 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.
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1950 | constituency created | ||
| 1950 | Dr Horace King | Labour | |
| 1955 | John Howard | Conservative | |
| 1964 | John Fletcher-Cooke | Conservative | |
| 1966 | Bob Mitchell | Labour | |
| 1970 | Sir James Hill | Conservative | |
| 1974 | Bryan Gould | Labour | |
| 1979 | Sir James Hill | Conservative | |
| 1997 | Alan Whitehead | Labour | |
[edit] Elections
| General Election 2005: Southampton Test | |||||
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| 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 | |||||
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| 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 | ||||
