Birmingham Perry Barr (UK Parliament constituency)

Birmingham, Perry Barr
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Birmingham, Perry Barr in Birmingham.
Location of Birmingham within England.
County	West Midlands
Electorate	71,794 (December 2010)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1950 (1950)
Member of Parliament	Khalid Mahmood (Labour)
Number of members	One
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	West Midlands

Birmingham, Perry Barr 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.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Elections 3.1 Elections in the 2010s 3.2 Elections in the 2000s 3.3 Elections in the 1990s 4 See also 5 Notes and references 6 External links

Boundaries

The constituency covers a broad area of north-west Birmingham with the following electoral wards:

• Handsworth Wood
• Lozells and East Handsworth
• Oscott
• Perry Barr

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[2]	Party
	1950	Cecil Charles Poole	Labour
	1955	Charles Howell	Labour
	1964	Dr Wyndham Davies	Conservative
	1966	Christopher Price	Labour
	1970	Joseph Kinsey	Conservative
	Feb 1974	Jeff Rooker	Labour
	2001	Khalid Mahmood	Labour

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2010: Birmingham, Perry Barr[3][4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Khalid Mahmood	21,142	50.3	+4.0
	Liberal Democrat	Karen Hamilton	9,234	22.0	-4.2
	Conservative	William Norton	8,960	21.3	+4.0
	UKIP	Melvin Ward	1,675	4.0	+1.6
	Socialist Labour	John Tyrrell	527	1.3	-1.0
	Christian	Deborah Hey-Smith	507	1.2	+1.2
Majority			11,908	28.3
Turnout			42,045	59.0	+5.1
	Labour hold		Swing	+4.1

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Birmingham, Perry Barr
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Khalid Mahmood	18,269	47.0	+0.5
	Liberal Democrat	Jon Hunt	10,321	26.5	+3.6
	Conservative	Naweed Khan	6,513	16.7	−6.4
	Respect	Dr Mohammad Naseem	2,173	5.6	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Rajinder Clair	890	2.3	−1.8
	UKIP	Bimla Balu	745	1.9	+1.0

General Election 2001: Birmingham, Perry Barr
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Khalid Mahmood	17,415	46.5	-16.5
	Conservative	David Binns	8,662	23.1	+1.4
	Liberal Democrat	Jon Hunt	8,566	22.9	+13.0
	Socialist Labour	Avtar Jouhl	1,544	4.1	N/A
	Socialist Alliance	Caroline Johnson	465	1.2	N/A
	UKIP	Natalya Nattrass	352	0.9	N/A
	Marxist Party	Michael Roche	221	0.6	N/A
	Muslim Party	Robert Davidson	192	0.5	N/A
Majority			8,753	23.4
Turnout			37,417	52.6	-11.9
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Birmingham Perry Barr[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jeff Rooker	27,507	53.2	+2.8
	Conservative	GG Green	18,917	36.6	−0.3
	Liberal Democrat	TPJG Philpott	5,261	10.2	−2.5
Majority			8,590	16.6	+3.1
Turnout			51,685	71.6	+2.0
	Labour hold		Swing	+1.6

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (county)

Notes and references

External links

• Birmingham city council constituency page

Constituencies in the West Midlands (59) Conservative (33) Aldridge-Brownhills Bromsgrove Burton Cannock Chase Dudley South Halesowen and Rowley Regis Hereford and South Herefordshire Kenilworth and Southam Lichfield Ludlow Meriden Mid Worcestershire North Herefordshire North Shropshire North Warwickshire Nuneaton Redditch Rugby Shrewsbury and Atcham South Staffordshire Stafford Staffordshire Moorlands Stone Stourbridge Stratford-on-Avon Sutton Coldfield Tamworth The Wrekin Warwick and Leamington West Worcestershire Wolverhampton South West Worcester Wyre Forest Labour (24) Birmingham, Edgbaston Birmingham, Erdington Birmingham, Hall Green Birmingham, Hodge Hill Birmingham, Ladywood Birmingham, Northfield Birmingham, Perry Barr Birmingham, Selly Oak Coventry North East Coventry North West Coventry South Dudley North Newcastle-under-Lyme Stoke-on-Trent Central Stoke-on-Trent North Stoke-on-Trent South Telford Walsall North Walsall South Warley West Bromwich East West Bromwich West Wolverhampton North East Wolverhampton South East Liberal Democrats (2) Birmingham, Yardley Solihull West Midlands European constituency: Conservative (2) UKIP (2) Labour (1) Liberal Democrats (1)