Luton South | |
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Borough constituency | |
for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Luton South in Bedfordshire. |
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Location of Bedfordshire within England. |
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County | Bedfordshire |
Electorate | 65,889 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Luton |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Gavin Shuker (Labour Co-op) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Luton East |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | East of England |
Luton South 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. It was created in 1983, primarily from the former seat of Luton East.
The constituency and its predecessors the Luton East and Luton constituencies had been called a bellwether constituency; they had elected an MP from the winning party in each election since the 1951 general election. However, the run was broken in the 2010 general election, when the constituency elected a Labour MP while the Conservatives were the largest party.
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Following the latest[2] review into parliamentary representation in Bedfordshire and Luton, the Boundary Commission for England made only insignificant changes to the existing constituencies.
Luton South currently consists of electoral wards within the town of Luton, and also part of one ward from Central Bedfordshire district:
The other constituency in Luton is Luton North.
Margaret Moran, who was the Labour MP from 1997, announced that she would stand down at the 2010 general election due to controversy over her expenses claims.
Election | Member [3] | Party | |
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1983 | Graham Bright | Conservative | |
1997 | Margaret Moran | Labour | |
2010 | Gavin Shuker | Labour Co-op |
General Election 2010: Luton South[4] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour Co-op | Gavin Shuker | 14,725 | 34.9 | -7.9 | |
Conservative | Nigel Huddleston | 12,396 | 29.4 | +1.3 | |
Liberal Democrat | Qurban Hussain | 9,567 | 22.7 | +0.1 | |
Independent | Esther Rantzen | 1,872 | 4.4 | N/A | |
BNP | Tony Blakey | 1,299 | 3.1 | N/A | |
UKIP | Charles Lawman | 975 | 2.3 | -0.1 | |
Independent | Stephen Rhodes | 463 | 1.1 | N/A | |
Green | Marc Scheimann | 366 | 0.9 | -1.2 | |
Independent | Joe Hall | 264 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Independent | Faruk Choudhury | 130 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Independent | Stephen Lathwell | 84 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Workers Revolutionary | Frank Sweeney | 75 | 0.2 | -0.1 | |
Majority | 2,329 | 5.5 | |||
Turnout | 42,216 | 64.8 | +11.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -4.6 |
General Election 2005: Luton South | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Margaret Moran | 16,610 | 42.7 | −12.5 | |
Conservative | Richard Stay | 10,960 | 28.2 | −1.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | Qurban Hussain | 8,778 | 22.6 | +11.7 | |
UKIP | Charles Lawman | 957 | 2.5 | +1.0 | |
Green | Marc Scheimann | 790 | 2.0 | 0.0 | |
Respect | Mohammed Ilyas | 725 | 1.9 | N/A | |
Workers Revolutionary | Arthur Lynn | 98 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
Majority | 5,650 | 14.5 | |||
Turnout | 38,918 | 54.1 | -1.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −5.6 |
General Election 2001: Luton South[5] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Margaret Moran | 21,719 | 55.2 | +0.3 | |
Conservative | Gordon Henderson | 11,586 | 29.4 | -1.9 | |
Liberal Democrat | Rabi Martins | 4,292 | 10.9 | +1.3 | |
Green | Marc Scheimann | 798 | 2.0 | +1.3 | |
UKIP | Charlie Lawman | 578 | 1.5 | +0.7 | |
Socialist Alliance | Jo Hearne | 271 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Workers Revolutionary | Robert Bolton | 107 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,133 | 25.8 | |||
Turnout | 39,351 | 55.1 | -15.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
General Election 1997: Luton South[5] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Margaret Moran | 26,428 | 54.8 | ||
Conservative | Graham Bright | 15,109 | 31.4 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Keith Fitchett | 4,610 | 9.6 | ||
Referendum Party | Clive Jacobs | 1,205 | 2.5 | N/A | |
UKIP | Charlie Lawman | 390 | 0.8 | ||
Green | Marc Scheimann | 356 | 0.7 | ||
Natural Law | Claire Perrin | 86 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 11,319 | 23.5 | |||
Turnout | 48,184 | 70.4 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
General Election 1992: Luton South[6] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Graham Bright | 25,900 | 44.8 | -1.4 | |
Labour | WD McKenzie | 25,101 | 43.5 | +6.8 | |
Liberal Democrat | DW Rogers | 6,020 | 10.4 | -6.7 | |
Green | Miss L Bliss | 550 | 1.0 | +1.0 | |
Natural Law | DRH Cooke | 191 | 0.3 | +0.3 | |
Majority | 799 | 1.4 | -8.2 | ||
Turnout | 57,762 | 79.1 | +3.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -4.1 |