Birmingham Ladywood (UK Parliament constituency)

Birmingham, Ladywood
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons

Boundary of Birmingham, Ladywood in Birmingham.

Location of Birmingham within England.
County West Midlands
Electorate 74,008 (December 2010)[1]
Current constituency
Created 1918 (1918)
Member of Parliament Shabana Mahmood (Labour)
Number of members One
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency West Midlands

Birmingham, Ladywood is a borough 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. In the recession of 2008–09, it was the first place in Britain where the claimant count rate of unemployment surpassed 10%, breaching that level in January 2009.[2]

Contents

Boundaries

The constituency includes the entirety of Birmingham City Centre, which falls within Ladywood ward, as well as the deprived inner-city wards of Aston, Nechells and Soho. Aston University is located within the seat, as are Birmingham's two league football clubs, Aston Villa and Birmingham City.

Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Birmingham and the West Midlands, the Boundary Commission for England has created a modified Ladywood constituency with the following electoral wards:

Birmingham Ladywood is an area of Birmingham city centre along with the areas of Aston, Newtown, Lozells, Handsworth, Soho & Nechells. The area is one of the most multicultural in Birmingham and Britain..

Ladywood has the highest unemployment rate in whole of the West Midlands, at just over 18% in July 2008 (by the international standardised measure, which is usually higher than the claimant count), compared with neighbouring Birmingham seats Perry Barr (8.1%), Sparkbrook and Small Heath (13.9%), and Yardley (7%).[3]

History

The constituency has undergone several boundary changes since its creation in 1918 but has remained a safe Labour seat since the Second World War, with the exception of a by-election in 1969 when Wallace Lawler won the seat for the Liberal Party. The seat was regained for Labour by Doris Fisher at the 1970 general election.

The constituency's first MP was the future Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who transferred to the Edgbaston seat in 1929. Its current MP is Shabana Mahmood, one of the country's first three female Muslim MPs.[4]

Members of Parliament

Election Member[5] Party
1918 Neville Chamberlain Conservative
1929 Wilfrid Whiteley Labour
1931 Geoffrey Lloyd Conservative
1945 Victor Yates Labour
1969 by-election Wallace Lawler Liberal
1970 Doris Fisher Labour
Feb 1974 Brian Walden Labour
1977 by-election John Sever Labour
1983 Clare Short Labour
2006 Independent Labour
2010 Shabana Mahmood Labour

Clare Short elected as a Labour MP from the 1983 general election onwards resigned the Labour whip on 20 October 2006 and wished it to be known that she would continue to sit in the Commons as an Independent Labour MP and a true "Social Democrat".

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2010: Birmingham, Ladywood[6][7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Shabana Mahmood 19,950 55.7 +3.0
Liberal Democrat Ayoub Khan 9,845 27.5 -1.9
Conservative Nusrat Ghani 4,277 11.9 +3.5
UKIP Christopher Booth 902 2.5 -3.0
Green Peter Beck 859 2.4 +2.1
Majority 10,105 28.2
Turnout 35,833 48.7 +3.5
Labour hold Swing +2.5%

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Birmingham, Ladywood
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Clare Short 17,262 51.9 -17.0
Liberal Democrat Ayoub Khan 10,461 31.5 +23.3
Conservative Philippa Stroud 3,515 10.6 -0.7
UKIP Lyn Nazemi-Afshar 2,008 6.0 +5.1
Majority 6,801 20.5
Turnout 33,246 46.8 +2.5
Labour hold Swing -20.1
General Election 2001: Birmingham, Ladywood
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Clare Short 21,694 68.9 -5.2
Conservative Benjamin Prentice 3,551 11.3 -2.0
Liberal Democrat Mahmood Chaudhry 2,586 8.2 +0.3
People's Justice Allah Ditta 2,112 6.7 N/A
Socialist Labour Surinder Virdee 443 1.4 N/A
Muslim Party Mahmood Hussain 432 1.4 N/A
ProLife Alliance James Caffery 392 1.2 N/A
UKIP Anneliese Nattrass 283 0.9 N/A
Majority 18,143 57.6
Turnout 31,493 44.3 -9.9
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Birmingham, Ladywood[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Clare Short 24,887 66.26 +8.59
Conservative Mrs Barbara Ashford 9,604 25.57 −5.78
Liberal Democrat Brian L. Worth 3,068 8.17 −1.10
Majority 15,283 40.69 0.90
Labour hold Swing +7.1

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Birmingham, Ladywood
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Clare Short 21,971 57.67 +6.72
Conservative S T Lee 11,973 31.35 +4.27
SDP–Liberal Alliance G Sangha 3,532 9.27 N/A
Green J Millington 650 1.71 N/A
Majority 10,028 26.32
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1983: Birmingham, Ladywood
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Clare Short 19,278 50.95 -12.58
Conservative P le Hunte 10,248 27.08 +0.2
SDP–Liberal Alliance K Hardeman 7,758 20.5 N/A
Stop Deportation of Black People B Bakhtaura 355 0.94 N/A
Workers Revolutionary R W Atkinson 198 0.52 N/A
Majority 9,030 23.87
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1979: Birmingham, Ladywood
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour John Sever 13,450 63.53
Conservative A Newhouse 5,691 26.88
Liberal K G Hardeman 2,030 9.59 N/A
Majority 7,759 36.65
Labour hold Swing
Birmingham Ladywood by-election, 1977
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour John Sever 8,227 53.13 -11.34
Conservative Quentin Davies 4,402 28.43 +6.33
National Front Anthony Reed Herbert 888 5.73 N/A
Liberal Kenneth Hardeman 765 4.94 -8.49
Socialist Unity Raghib Ahsan 534 3.49 N/A
Independent James Hunte 336 2.17 N/A
Independent Conservative George Matthews 71 0.46 N/A
Reform Party Peter Courtney 63 0.41 N/A
Air Road Public Safety Bill Boaks 46 0.30 N/A
Turnout 15,484
Labour hold Swing
Birmingham Ladywood by-election, 1969
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Wallace Lawler 5,104 54.35 +30.64
Labour Doris Fisher 2,391 25.46 -33.46
Conservative Dr. Louis Glass 1,580 16.82 -0.54
British Movement Colin Jordan 282 3.0 N/A
Fellowship James Haigh 34 0.36 N/A
Turnout 9,391
Liberal gain from Labour Swing

See also

Notes and references

  1. ^ "Electorate Figures – Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. http://www.boundarycommissionforengland.org.uk/electoral-figures/electoral-figures.htm. Retrieved 13 March 2011. 
  2. ^ "Unemployment in graphics". Recession tracker (BBC News). 18 March 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7789784.stm. Retrieved 24 March 2009. 
  3. ^ Residence-based unemployment rates by parliamentary constituency United Kingdom, June 2008 House of Commons research paper]
  4. ^ Adetunji, Jo; Tran, Mark (7 May 2010). "General election 2010: first female Muslim MPs elected". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/07/general-election-female-muslim-mps. Retrieved 7 May 2010. 
  5. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 1)
  6. ^ Statement of Persons Nominated and Notice of Poll 2010
  7. ^ "BBC NEWS – Election 2010 – Birmingham Ladywood". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/constituency/a35.stm. 
  8. ^ "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/i02.htm. Retrieved 6 December 2010. 

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