Birmingham Yardley (UK Parliament constituency)

Birmingham, Yardley
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Birmingham, Yardley in Birmingham.
Location of Birmingham within England.
County	West Midlands
Electorate	73,261 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1918 (1918)
Member of Parliament	John Hemming (Liberal Democrat)
Number of members	One
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	West Midlands

Birmingham, Yardley is a 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.

Boundaries

Yardley area committee district is situated in the south-east of Birmingham, at the boundary of Solihull.

Boundary review

Following the review of parliamentary representation in Birmingham and the West Midlands by the Boundary Commission for England, Yardley is to be modified with the following electoral wards making up a revised constituency:

• Acocks Green
• Sheldon
• South Yardley
• Stechford and Yardley North

Members of Parliament

In most general elections the MP elected for Birmingham Yardley was a member of the party winning the general election, making it a bellwether seat. Exceptions were 1992 (Conservative Party win), 2005 (Labour Party win) and 2010 (hung parliament in which the Conservatives emerged as the largest party).

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Alfred Roger Jephcott	Coalition Conservative
	1929	Archibald George Gossling	Labour
	1931	Edward William Salt	Conservative
	1945	Wesley Perrins	Labour
	1950	Henry Usborne	Labour
	1959	Leonard Cleaver	Conservative
	1964	Ioan Evans	Labour Co-operative
	1970	Derek Coombs	Conservative
	Feb 1974	Syd Tierney	Labour
	1979	David Gilroy Bevan	Conservative
	1992	Estelle Morris	Labour
	2005	John Hemming	Liberal Democrat

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2010: Birmingham, Yardley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	John Hemming	16,162	39.6	-2.5
	Labour	Lynnette Kelly	13,160	32.2	-2.5
	Conservative	Meirion Jenkins	7,836	19.2	+8.6
	BNP	Tanya Lumby	2,153	5.3	+0.1
	UKIP	Graham Duffen	1,190	2.9	+1.8
	National Front	Paul Morris	349	0.9	+0.5
Majority			3,002	7.3
Turnout			40,850	56.5	+2.0

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Birmingham, Yardley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	John Hemming	13,648	46.4	+8.1
	Labour	Jayne Innes	10,976	37.3	-9.6
	Conservative	Paul Uppal	2,970	10.1	-3.0
	BNP	Robert Purcell	1,523	5.2	N/A
	UKIP	Mohammed Yaqub	314	1.1	0.0
Majority			2,672	9.1
Turnout			29,431	57.7	+0.5
	Liberal Democrat gain from Labour		Swing	-8.8

General Election 2001: Birmingham, Yardley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Estelle Morris	14,085	46.9	-0.1
	Liberal Democrat	John Hemming	11,507	38.3	+5.4
	Conservative	Barrie Roberts	3,941	13.1	-4.7
	UKIP	Alan Ware	329	1.1	+0.7
	Socialist Labour	Colin Wren	151	0.5	N/A
Majority			2,578	8.6
Turnout			30,011	57.2	-13.9
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Birmingham, Yardley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Estelle Morris	17,778	47.0	+12.1
	Liberal Democrat	John Hemming	12,463	33.0	+2.8
	Conservative	Anne Jobson	6,736	17.8	-16.7
	UKIP	Alan Ware	164	0.4	N/A
Majority			5,315	14.3	+13.9
Turnout			37,141	71.2	-6.8
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1992: Birmingham, Yardley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Estelle Morris	14,884	34.9	-1.7
	Conservative	David Gilroy Bevan	14,722	34.5	-8.1
	Liberal Democrat	John Hemming	12,899	30.2	+9.6
	National Front	Paul Read	192	0.4	N/A
Majority			162	0.4	−5.6
Turnout				78.0	+4.1
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	+3.2

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Birmingham, Yardley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Gilroy Bevan	17,931	42.6
	Labour	Geoffrey Edge	15,409	36.6
	Liberal	L Smith	8,734	20.8
Majority			2,522	6.0
Turnout				73.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1929: Birmingham, Yardley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Archibald Gossling	23,956	48.8	+2.0
	Conservative	Edward William Salt	19,590	39.9	-13.3
	Liberal	C A Beaumont	5,500	11.2	N/A
Majority			4,366	8.9
Turnout			49,046
	Labour gain from Conservative

General Election 1924: Birmingham, Yardley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alfred Jephcott	16,149	53.2
	Labour	Archibald Gossling	14,184	46.8
Majority			1,965	6.5
Turnout			30,333
	Conservative hold

See also

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

External links

• Birmingham city council constituency page