Birmingham Small Heath (UK Parliament constituency)
Birmingham Small Heath was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Small Heath area 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 1997 general election, when it was partly replaced by the new Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath constituency.
Boundaries
Throughout its existence the constituency included the Small Heath ward, but that district was linked with various adjoining parts of the inner-city area of Birmingham. In its first three incarnations the constituency was to the south east of the city centre. Its boundaries moved more to the east of the centre in the 1983 redistribution.
1950-1955: The constituency comprised the then Birmingham City Council wards of Duddeston, Saltley and Small Heath. Before 1950 Duddeston ward had been part of Birmingham Duddeston constituency and the other two wards had formed part of Birmingham Yardley.
1955-1974: Duddeston ward was transferred to Birmingham Ladywood. Deritend ward was added to this constituency having formerly been part of Birmingham Sparkbrook. Saltley and Small Heath wards were not affected by the redistribution.
1974-1983: The division, in this redistribution, comprised Duddeston, Newtown, Saltley and Small Heath wards. Duddeston ward had formerly been in Birmingham Ladywood. Deritend ward was transferred to Birmingham Edgbaston.
1983-1997: The new version of the constituency consisted of Aston, Nechells and Small Heath wards. 72.7% of the new constituency came from the old one, 11.9% from Birmingham Handsworth (Aston ward) and smaller amounts from Birmingham Sparkbrook (6.1%), Birmingham Erdington (4.9%), Birmingham Yardley (2.6%) and Birmingham Ladywood (1.7%).
In the 1997 redistribution this constituency disappeared. Small Heath ward joined a new seat of Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath. Aston and Nechells wards became part of Birmingham Ladywood.
Members of Parliament
Election results
Explanatory notes:-
- The votes figure in the 'Turnout' box is the number of registered electors.
- No swing figure is calculated unless the same two parties are in first and second place in both the present and the last election. Swing is the average of the party % vote change between the pair of elections. A positive swing is towards Conservative and a negative swing is towards Labour.
- Labour Co-operative and Labour candidates are regarded as members of the same party. The Liberal, SDP and Liberal Democrat candidates are treated as being from the same party for the purpose of % changes.
- Death of Longden 5 October 1952
- Death of Wheeldon 7 October 1960
- Constituency abolished 1997
See also
References
- Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
- British Parliamentary Constituencies: A Statistical Compendium, by Ivor Crewe and Anthony Fox (Faber and Faber 1984)
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1983)
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1974-1983, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1984)
- Britain Votes 4, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1988)
- Britain Votes 5, compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher (Parliamentary Research Services - Dartmouth Publishing 1993)
- Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume IV 1945-1979, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1981)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 3)