Birmingham Ladywood (UK Parliament constituency)
Birmingham, Ladywood | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Birmingham, Ladywood in Birmingham | |
![]() Location of Birmingham within England | |
County | West Midlands |
Population | 126,693 (2011 census)[1] |
Electorate | 74,008 (December 2010)[2] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1918 |
Member of Parliament | Shabana Mahmood (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Birmingham, Ladywood is a constituency[n 1] of part of the city of Birmingham, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Shabana Mahmood of the Labour Party.[n 2]
Constituency profile
Birmingham Ladywood is an area of Birmingham city centre along with the areas of Aston, Newtown, Lozells, Soho, and Nechells. The area is one of the most multicultural in Birmingham and Britain. In the recession of 2008–09 it was the first place in Britain where the claimant count rate of unemployment exceeded 10%, breaching that level in January 2009. In July 2008 Ladywood had the highest unemployment rate in the whole of the West Midlands (by the international standardised measure, which is usually higher than the claimant count) at just over 18%, compared with neighbouring Birmingham seats Perry Barr (8.1%), Sparkbrook and Small Heath (13.9%), and Yardley (7%).[3][4] For the year ending September 2014 the unemployment rate was 12.4%,[5] although the employment rate had increased only slightly, from 46.1% to 46.6% (compared with 69.7% for the West Midlands as a whole).[6]
The average house price in Ladywood is just under £155,000 making it much lower than the national average of just over £288,000. [7]
Boundaries
1918-1950: The County Borough of Birmingham wards of Ladywood and Rotton Park.
1950-1955: The County Borough of Birmingham wards of All Saints', Ladywood, and Rotton Park.
1955-1974: The County Borough of Birmingham wards of Duddeston, Ladywood, and St Paul's.
1974-1983: The County Borough of Birmingham wards of All Saints', Ladywood, Rotton Park, and Soho.
1983-1997: The City of Birmingham wards of Ladywood, Sandwell, and Soho.
1997-present: The City of Birmingham wards of Aston, Ladywood, Nechells, and Soho.
The constituency includes the entirety of Birmingham City Centre (Ladywood ward), as well as Aston, Nechells and Soho which (based on the indices of Multiple Deprivation) are the city wards of highest deprivation. Aston University is within the seat, as are Birmingham's two league football clubs, Aston Villa and Birmingham City.
History
The constituency has undergone several boundary changes since its creation in 1918 but has remained a safe Labour seat since the Second World War, with the exception of a by-election in 1969 when Wallace Lawler won the seat for the Liberal Party. The seat was regained for Labour by Doris Fisher at the 1970 general election.
The constituency's first MP was the future Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who transferred to the Edgbaston seat in 1929. Its current MP is Shabana Mahmood, one of the country's first three female Muslim MPs.[8]
Members of Parliament
Clare Short, elected as a Labour MP from the 1983 general election onwards, resigned the Labour whip on 20 October 2006 and wished it to be known that she would continue to sit in the Commons as an Independent Labour MP and a true "Social Democrat".
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Shabana Mahmood | 26,444 | 73.6 | +18.0 | |
Conservative | Isabel Sigmac | 4,576 | 12.7 | +0.8 | |
UKIP | Clair Braund | 1,805 | 5.0 | +2.5 | |
Green | Margaret Okole | 1,501 | 4.2 | +1.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Shazad Iqbal[11] | 1,374 | 3.8 | −23.6 | |
Liberty GB | Tim Burton[12] | 216 | 0.6 | +0.6 | |
Majority | 21,868 | 60.9 | +32.7 | ||
Turnout | 35,916 | 52.7 | +4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +8.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Shabana Mahmood | 19,950 | 55.7 | +3.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ayoub Khan | 9,845 | 27.5 | −1.9 | |
Conservative | Nusrat M. Ghani | 4,277 | 11.9 | +3.5 | |
UKIP | Christopher Booth | 902 | 2.5 | −3.0 | |
Green | Peter C. Beck | 859 | 2.4 | +2.1 | |
Majority | 10,105 | 28.2 | |||
Turnout | 35,833 | 48.7 | +3.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.5 |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Clare Short | 17,262 | 51.9 | −17.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ayoub Khan | 10,461 | 31.5 | +23.3 | |
Conservative | Philippa Stroud | 3,515 | 10.6 | −0.7 | |
UKIP | Mrs. Lyn Nazemi-Afshar | 2,008 | 6.0 | +5.1 | |
Majority | 6,801 | 20.5 | |||
Turnout | 33,246 | 46.8 | +2.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −20.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Clare Short | 21,694 | 68.9 | −5.2 | |
Conservative | Benjamin H. Prentice | 3,551 | 11.3 | −2.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | S. Mahmood Chaudhry | 2,586 | 8.2 | +0.3 | |
People's Justice | Allah Ditta | 2,112 | 6.7 | N/A | |
Socialist Labour | Surinder P. Virdee | 443 | 1.4 | N/A | |
Muslim Party | Mahmood Hussain | 432 | 1.4 | N/A | |
ProLife Alliance | James Caffery | 392 | 1.2 | N/A | |
UKIP | Dr. Anneliese Nattrass | 283 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 18,143 | 57.6 | |||
Turnout | 31,493 | 44.3 | −9.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −1.6 |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Clare Short | 28,134 | 74.1 | +2.7 | |
Conservative | Shailesh Vara | 5,052 | 13.3 | −7.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sardul Singh Marwa | 3,020 | 8.0 | −0.2 | |
Referendum | Mrs. Ruth A. Gurney | 1,086 | 2.9 | N/A | |
National Democrats | Andrew Carmichael | 685 | 1.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 23,082 | 60.8 | 0.9 | ||
Turnout | 37,977 | 54.2 | −11.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +4.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Clare Short | 24,887 | 66.3 | +8.6 | |
Conservative | Mrs Barbara S. Ashford | 9,604 | 25.6 | −5.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Brian L. Worth | 3,068 | 8.2 | −1.1 | |
Majority | 15,283 | 40.7 | 0.9 | ||
Turnout | 37,559 | 65.9 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +7.1 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Clare Short | 21,971 | 57.7 | +6.7 | |
Conservative | Simon Timothy Lee | 11,943 | 31.3 | +4.3 | |
SDP | Gurdial Singh Sangha | 3,532 | 9.3 | −11.2 | |
Green | Mrs. Joyce Hilda Mary Millington | 650 | 1.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,028 | 26.3 | |||
Turnout | 38,096 | 64.8 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Clare Short | 19,278 | 51.0 | −3.1 | |
Conservative | Mrs. P. Le Hunte | 10,248 | 27.1 | −10.6 | |
Liberal | Kenneth George Hardeman | 7,758 | 20.5 | +12.5 | |
Stop Deportation of Black People | Baba Bakhtaura | 355 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Workers Revolutionary | R.W. Atkinson | 198 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 9,030 | 23.9 | |||
Turnout | 37,837 | 62.6 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Sever | 13,450 | 63.5 | −1.0 | |
Conservative | A. Newhouse | 5,691 | 26.9 | +4.8 | |
Liberal | Kenneth George Hardeman | 2,030 | 9.6 | −3.8 | |
Majority | 7,759 | 36.7 | |||
Turnout | 21,071 | 62.3 | +5.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −2.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Sever | 8,227 | 53.1 | −11.3 | |
Conservative | Quentin Davies | 4,402 | 28.4 | +6.3 | |
National Front | Anthony Reed Herbert | 888 | 5.7 | N/A | |
Liberal | Kenneth George Hardeman | 765 | 4.9 | −8.5 | |
Socialist Unity | Raghib Ahsan | 534 | 3.5 | N/A | |
Independent | James Hunte | 336 | 2.2 | N/A | |
Independent Conservative | George Matthews | 71 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Reform Party | Peter Courtney | 63 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Air Road Public Safety | Bill Boaks | 46 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,825 | 24.7 | |||
Turnout | 15,484 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Alastair Brian Walden | 14,818 | 64.5 | +5.9 | |
Conservative | Richard Lawn | 5,079 | 22.1 | −1.8 | |
Liberal | Kenneth George Hardeman | 3,086 | 13.4 | −1.2 | |
Majority | 9,739 | 42.4 | |||
Turnout | 22,983 | 56.9 | −7.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Alastair Brian Walden | 15,126 | 58.6 | +15.2 | |
Conservative | Richard Lawn | 6,164 | 23.9 | +2.3 | |
Liberal | Kenneth George Hardeman | 3,753 | 14.6 | −20.4 | |
National Front | John Alexander Alfred Davis | 751 | 2.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,962 | 34.7 | |||
Turnout | 25,794 | 64.2 | +2.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Doris Fisher | 5,067 | 43.4 | −15.5 | |
Liberal | Wallace Lawler | 4,087 | 35.0 | +11.3 | |
Conservative | C.L. Wade | 2,523 | 21.6 | +4.2 | |
Majority | 980 | 8.4 | |||
Turnout | 11,677 | 62.2 | +2.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Wallace Lawler | 5,104 | 54.4 | +30.6 | |
Labour | Doris Fisher | 2,391 | 25.5 | −33.5 | |
Conservative | Dr. Louis Glass | 1,580 | 16.8 | −0.5 | |
British Movement | Colin Jordan | 282 | 3.0 | N/A | |
Fellowship | James Haigh | 34 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,713 | 28.9 | |||
Turnout | 9,391 | ||||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Victor Yates | 8,895 | 58.9 | −4.3 | |
Liberal | Wallace Lawler | 3,580 | 23.7 | N/A | |
Conservative | T.G. John | 2,621 | 17.4 | −19.4 | |
Majority | 5,315 | 35.2 | |||
Turnout | 15,096 | 59.7 | +6.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Victor Yates | 10,098 | 63.2 | −0.5 | |
Conservative | T.G. John | 5,879 | 36.8 | +0.5 | |
Majority | 4,219 | 26.4 | |||
Turnout | 15,977 | 53.7 | −5.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −0.5 |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Victor Yates | 14,717 | 63.7 | −2.0 | |
Conservative | T.G. John | 8,393 | 36.3 | +2.0 | |
Majority | 6,324 | 27.4 | |||
Turnout | 23,110 | 59.1 | −0.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −2.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Victor Yates | 18,476 | 65.7 | +6.1 | |
Conservative | P.W. Hodges | 9,665 | 34.3 | −6.1 | |
Majority | 8,811 | 31.3 | |||
Turnout | 28,141 | 60.0 | −17.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +6.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Victor Yates | 24,088 | 59.6 | −1.8 | |
Conservative | L. Seymour | 16,331 | 40.4 | +1.8 | |
Majority | 7,757 | 19.2 | |||
Turnout | 40,419 | 77.4 | −3.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −1.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Victor Yates | 25,603 | 61.4 | +5.5 | |
Conservative | Frederic Bennett | 16,071 | 38.6 | −5.5 | |
Majority | 9,532 | 22.8 | |||
Turnout | 41,674 | 80.4 | +10.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +5.5 |
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Victor Yates | 13,503 | 55.9 | +27.6 | |
Unionist | Geoffrey Lloyd | 10,657 | 44.1 | −27.7 | |
Majority | 2,846 | 11.8 | |||
Turnout | 24,160 | 70.1 | +4.1 | ||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | +27.7 |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Geoffrey Lloyd | 18,565 | 71.8 | +0.0 | |
Labour | George Hubert Humphreys | 7,311 | 28.3 | +0.0 | |
Majority | 11,254 | 43.5 | |||
Turnout | 25,876 | 66.0 | −12.1 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Geoffrey Lloyd | 23,057 | 71.8 | ||
Labour | Wilfrid Whiteley | 9,057 | 28.2 | ||
Majority | 14,000 | 43.6 | |||
Turnout | 32,114 | 78.1 | |||
Unionist gain from Labour | Swing |
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Wilfrid Whiteley | 16,447 | 50.0 | ||
Unionist | Geoffrey William Lloyd | 16,436 | 50.0 | ||
Majority | 11 | 0.0 | |||
Turnout | 32,883 | ||||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Rt Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain | 13,374 | 49.1 | −4.1 | |
Labour | Oswald Ernald Mosley | 13,297 | 48.9 | +2.1 | |
Liberal | Alfred William Bowkett | 539 | 2.0 | +2.0 | |
Majority | 77 | 0.2 | −3.8 | ||
Turnout | 27,200 | 80.5 | +8.5 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | -2.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Rt Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain | 12,884 | 53.2 | −2.0 | |
Labour | Robert Dunstan | 11,330 | 46.8 | +2.0 | |
Majority | 1,554 | 6.4 | −4.0 | ||
Turnout | 72.0 | +1.5 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | -2.0 |
Elections in the 1910s
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | 9,405 | 69.5 | |||
Labour | John William Kneeshaw | 2,572 | 19.0 | ||
Liberal | Margery Irene Corbett Ashby | 1,552 | 11.5 | ||
Majority | 6,833 | 50.5 | |||
Turnout | 40.6 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
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.
- References
- ^ "Birmingham, Ladywood: 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.
- ^ Residence-based unemployment rates by parliamentary constituency United Kingdom, June 2008 House of Commons research paper
- ^ "Unemployment in graphics". Recession tracker. BBC News. 18 March 2009. Retrieved 24 March 2009.
- ^ "Constituency Profile". nomis official labour market statistics. Source: Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ^ "Economically Active - Time Series: In employment". nomis official labour market statistics. Source: Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ^ Upmystreet.zoopla.co.uk
- ^ Adetunji, Jo; Tran, Mark (7 May 2010). "General election 2010: first female Muslim MPs elected". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 1)
- ^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ "Shazad Iqbal PPC page". Liberal Democrats. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
- ^ http://freedomlovinginfidel.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/tim-burton-is-standing-as-liberty-gb.html
- ^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
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- ^ "BBC NEWS – Election 2010 – Birmingham Ladywood". BBC News.
- ^ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "UK General Election results May 1997". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 1 May 1992. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
- ^ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
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