Birmingham Stechford (UK Parliament constituency)
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Birmingham Stechford Borough constituency |
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Created: | 1950 |
Abolished: | 1983 |
Type: | House of Commons |
Members: | one |
Birmingham Stechford was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Stechford district of the city of Birmingham. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election.
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[edit] Boundaries
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[edit] Members of Parliament
Year | Member | Party | |
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1950 | Roy Jenkins | Labour | |
1977 | Andrew James Mackay | Conservative | |
1979 | Terry Davis | Labour | |
1983 | constituency abolished: see Birmingham Hodge Hill |
[edit] Election results
[edit] Election results in the 1970s
General Election 1979: Birmingham Stechford | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Terry Davis | 21,166 | 48.4 | -9.2 | |
Conservative | Andrew MacKay | 19,517 | 44.6 | +16.8 | |
Liberal | Graham Gopsill | 2,349 | 5.4 | -9.2 | |
National Front | F. Russell | 698 | 1.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,649 | 3.8 | -25.9 | ||
Turnout | 71.6 | +7.5 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
NB: Changes are from previous general election
Birmingham Stechford by-election, 1977 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Andrew MacKay | 15,731 | 43.4 | +15.6 | |
Labour | Terry Davis | 13,782 | 38.0 | -19.6 | |
National Front | Andrew Brons | 2,955 | 8.2 | N/A | |
Liberal | Graham Gopsill | 2,901 | 8.0 | -6.4 | |
International Marxist | Brian Heron | 494 | 1.4 | N/A | |
Socialist Workers | Paul Foot | 377 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Turnout | 36,240 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
General Election October 1974: Birmingham Stechford | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Roy Jenkins | 23,075 | 57.6 | +4.5 | |
Conservative | D. Wedgwood | 11,152 | 27.8 | -2.4 | |
Liberal | Graham Gopsill | 5,860 | 14.6 | -1.4 | |
Majority | 11,923 | 29.7 | +6.9 | ||
Turnout | 40,087 | 64.1 | -1.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
General Election February 1974: Birmingham Stechford | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Roy Jenkins | 23,704 | 53.1 | -3.1 | |
Conservative | D. Wedgwood | 13,472 | 30.1 | -9.5 | |
Liberal | Graham Gopsill | 7,221 | 16.2 | N/A | |
Workers' Revolutionary | Royston Bull | 280 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,232 | 22.9 | +6.2 | ||
Turnout | 72.1 | +8.3 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
General Election 1970: Birmingham Stechford | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Roy Jenkins | 22,559 | 56.2 | -8.0 | |
Conservative | J. Stevens | 15,848 | 39.5 | +6.3 | |
National Democratic | D. Hardy | 1,483 | 3.6 | N/A | |
Communist | S. Pegg | 298 | 0.8 | -1.8 | |
Majority | 6,711 | 16.7 | -14.3 | ||
Turnout | 63.8 | -6.4 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
[edit] Election results in the 1960s
General Election 1966: Birmingham Stechford | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Roy Jenkins | 24,597 | 64.2 | +7.4 | |
Conservative | D Knox | 12,727 | 33.2 | -10.0 | |
Communist | W Dunn | 998 | 2.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 11,871 | 31.0 | +17.3 | ||
Turnout | 70.2 | -0.8 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
General Election 1964: Birmingham Stechford | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Roy Jenkins | 22,421 | 56.8 | +3.2 | |
Conservative | D Knox | 17,033 | 43.2 | -3.2 | |
Majority | 5,388 | 13.7 | +6.6 | ||
Turnout | 71.0 | -2.5 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
[edit] Election results in the 1950s
General Election 1959: Birmingham Stechford | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Roy Jenkins | 21,919 | 53.6 | -4.8 | |
Conservative | JM Bailey | 18,996 | 46.4 | +4.8 | |
Majority | 2,923 | 7.1 | -9.8 | ||
Turnout | 73.5 | +0.8 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
General Election 1955: Birmingham Stechford | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Roy Jenkins | 23,358 | 58.4 | -1.1 | |
Conservative | JM Bailey | 16,618 | 41.6 | +1.1 | |
Majority | 6,740 | 16.9 | -2.1 | ||
Turnout | 72.7 | -8.7 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
General Election 1951: Birmingham Stechford | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Roy Jenkins | 34,355 | 59.5 | +1 | |
Conservative | E Pitt | 23,384 | 40.5 | +3.9 | |
Majority | 10,971 | 19.0 | -2.9 | ||
Turnout | 81.4 | -2.0 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
General Election 1950: Birmingham Stechford | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Roy Jenkins | 33,077 | 58.5 | N/A | |
Conservative | E Pitt | 20,699 | 36.6 | N/A | |
Liberal | SW Haslam | 2,789 | 5.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 12,378 | 21.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 83.4 | N/A |