Birmingham Hodge Hill (UK Parliament constituency)
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Birmingham, Hodge Hill | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Birmingham, Hodge Hill in Birmingham | |
![]() Location of Birmingham within England | |
County | West Midlands |
Population | 121,678 (2011 census)[1] |
Electorate | 75,985 (December 2010)[2] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Liam Byrne (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Birmingham Stechford |
Birmingham, Hodge Hill is a constituency[n 1] of part of the city of Birmingham represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2004 by Liam Byrne of the Labour Party.[n 2]
History
The constituency was created in 1983, largely replacing the Birmingham Stechford constituency.
Hodge Hill is a traditionally Labour-governed area, normally seeing large majorities for the party. However, in 2004 the appointment of the sitting Member of Parliament (MP), Terry Davis, as secretary general of the Council of Europe resulted in a fiercely contested by-election. The seat saw a fierce challenge by the Liberal Democrats[n 3] who hoped to build on their previous by-election gain at Brent East, as well as competition for the anti-war vote from RESPECT The Unity Coalition. On a low turnout, Labour's Liam Byrne held the seat by a margin of just 460 votes over the Liberal Democrats, with RESPECT taking over 1000 votes.
Boundaries
1983-2010: The City of Birmingham wards of Hodge Hill, Shard End, and Washwood Heath.
2010-present: The City of Birmingham wards of Bordesley Green, Hodge Hill, Shard End, and Washwood Heath.
The constituency covers a diverse area of east Birmingham, including the predominantly Asian inner-city area of Washwood Heath and the mostly white area of Shard End on the city's eastern boundary, as well as Hodge Hill itself. The constituency has a high percentage of residents on a low income bracket and a roughly equal three-way split of social housing, privately rented and privately owned homes leading to one of highest Indices of Multiple Deprivation in the West Midlands for its central area.[3]
When the Hodge Hill area committee district of Birmingham was created in 2004 its boundaries were those of the constituency.
Members of Parliament
The current Member of Parliament is Liam Byrne of the Labour Party, who was elected in the 2004 by-election. He succeeded Terry Davis, who had held the seat since its creation in the 1983 general election. For the four years from the 1979 general election Davis held the largely predecessor constituency to the area, Birmingham Stechford.
Election | Member[4] | Party | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1983 | Terry Davis | Labour | Resigned 2004 |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 2004 by-election | Liam Byrne | Labour | Chief Secretary to the Treasury 2009-2010 |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Liam Byrne [7] | 28,069 | 68.4 | +16.4 | |
Conservative | Kieran Mullan [8] | 4,707 | 11.5 | −0.2 | |
UKIP | Albert Duffen | 4,651 | 11.3 | +9.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Phil Bennion | 2,624 | 6.4 | −21.3 | |
Green | Chris Nash[9] | 835 | 2 | +2 | |
Communist | Andy Chaffer | 153 | 0.4 | +0.4 | |
Majority | 23,362 | 56.9 | +32.6 | ||
Turnout | 41,039 | 54.5 | −1.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Liam Byrne | 22,077 | 52.0 | +5.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tariq Khan | 11,775 | 27.7 | −2.1 | |
Conservative | Shailesh Parekh | 4,936 | 11.6 | +1.0 | |
BNP | Richard Lumby | 2,333 | 5.5 | +0.4 | |
UKIP | Waheed Rafiq | 714 | 1.7 | −1.1 | |
SDP | Peter Johnson | 637 | 1.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,302 | 24.3 | |||
Turnout | 42,472 | 56.6 | +0.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +3.6 |
Elections in the 2000s
Note: percentage changes are from the figures at the 2001 general election, not the 2004 by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Liam Byrne | 13,822 | 48.6 | −15.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Miss Nicola S. Davies | 8,373 | 29.5 | +21.4 | |
Conservative | Miss Deborah H. Thomas | 3,768 | 13.3 | −6.7 | |
BNP | Denis H. Adams | 1,445 | 5.1 | N/A | |
UKIP | Adrian D. Duffen | 680 | 2.4 | +1.4 | |
Peace and Progress | Azmat Begg | 329 | 1.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,449 | 19.2 | |||
Turnout | 28,417 | 52.7 | +4.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −18.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Liam Byrne | 7,451 | 36.5 | −27.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Miss Nicola S. Davies | 6,991 | 34.2 | +26.1 | |
Conservative | Stephen John Arthur Eyre | 3,543 | 17.3 | −2.7 | |
Respect | John Rees | 1,282 | 6.3 | N/A | |
National Front | Jim W. Starkey | 805 | 3.9 | N/A | |
English Democrat | Mark K. Wheatley | 277 | 1.4 | N/A | |
Christian Vote | Rev. George Hargreaves | 90 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 460 | 2.3 | |||
Turnout | 20,439 | 37.9 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Terence Anthony Gordon Davis | 16,901 | 63.9 | −1.7 | |
Conservative | Mrs. Debbie A. Lewis | 5,283 | 20.0 | −4.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Charles Alistair Dow | 2,147 | 8.1 | −0.4 | |
BNP | Lee Windridge | 889 | 3.3 | N/A | |
People's Justice | Perwaz Hussain | 561 | 2.1 | N/A | |
Socialist Labour | Dennis Cridge | 284 | 1.1 | N/A | |
UKIP | Harvey B. Vivian | 275 | 1.0 | −0.9 | |
Muslim Party | Ayub Khan | 125 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 11,618 | 43.9 | |||
Turnout | 26,465 | 47.9 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Terence Anthony Gordon Davis | 22,398 | 65.6 | +12.0 | |
Conservative | Edward Alexander Gordon Grant | 8,198 | 24.0 | −12.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Hadyn Alan Thomas | 2,891 | 8.5 | −0.7 | |
UKIP | Peter Frank Johnson | 660 | 1.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 14,200 | 41.6 | +4.3 | ||
Turnout | 34,147 | 60.9 | −9.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +12.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Terence Anthony Gordon Davis | 21,895 | 53.6 | +4.9 | |
Conservative | Miss Elizabeth Margaret Gibson | 14,827 | 36.3 | −0.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sean Christopher Garland Hagan | 3,740 | 9.2 | −5.2 | |
National Front | Eddy John Whicker | 370 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 7,068 | 17.3 | +5.6 | ||
Turnout | 40,832 | 70.8 | +2.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.8 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Terence Anthony Gordon Davis | 19,872 | 48.7 | +1.1 | |
Conservative | Stephen John Arthur Eyre | 15,083 | 37.0 | +1.7 | |
Liberal | Kenneth George Hardeman | 5,868 | 14.4 | −1.5 | |
Majority | 4,789 | 11.7 | |||
Turnout | 40,823 | 68.9 | +1.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −0.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Terence Anthony Gordon Davis | 19,692 | 47.6 | N/A | |
Conservative | Peter Michael Roe | 14,600 | 35.3 | N/A | |
Liberal | Graham Alfred Gopsill | 6,557 | 15.9 | N/A | |
National Front | Norman Douglas William Tomkinson | 529 | 1.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,092 | 12.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 41,378 | 67.6 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) |
See also
Notes and references
- Notes
- ^ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
- ^ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
- ^ In the same way as by-election in Leicester South, held on the same day by the Labour Party
- References
- ^ "Birmingham, Hodge Hill: Usual Resident Population, 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ^ 2001 Census
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 3)
- ^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000563
- ^ http://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/birmingham-hodge-green-2015.html
- ^ https://www.conservatives.com/OurTeam/Prospective_Parliamentary_Candidates/Mullan_Kieran.aspx
- ^ West Midlands Green Party
- ^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
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