Birmingham Stechford (UK Parliament constituency)
Birmingham Stechford | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | West Midlands |
1950–1983 | |
Seats | One |
Replaced by | Birmingham Hodge Hill and Birmingham Yardley[1] |
Birmingham Stechford was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Stechford district of the city of Birmingham. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.
The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election. Stechford itself is now part of the Birmingham Yardley seat.
Boundaries
1950-1974: The County Borough of Birmingham wards of Stechford and Washwood Heath.
1974-1983: The County Borough of Birmingham wards of Shard End, Stechford, and Washwood Heath.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1950 | Roy Jenkins | Labour |
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1977 by-election | Andrew MacKay | Conservative |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1979 | Terry Davis | Labour |
1983 | constituency abolished |
Election results
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Roy Harris Jenkins | 33,077 | 58.5 | N/A | |
Conservative | Edith Maud Pitt | 20,699 | 36.6 | N/A | |
Liberal | SW Haslam | 2,789 | 5.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 12,378 | 21.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 83.4 | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Roy Harris Jenkins | 34,355 | 59.5 | +1 | |
Conservative | Edith Maud Pitt | 23,384 | 40.5 | +3.9 | |
Majority | 10,971 | 19.0 | -2.9 | ||
Turnout | 81.4 | -2.0 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Roy Harris Jenkins | 23,358 | 58.4 | -1.1 | |
Conservative | Joseph Morris Bailey | 16,618 | 41.6 | +1.1 | |
Majority | 6,740 | 16.9 | -2.1 | ||
Turnout | 72.7 | -8.7 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Roy Harris Jenkins | 21,919 | 53.6 | -4.8 | |
Conservative | Joseph Morris Bailey | 18,996 | 46.4 | +4.8 | |
Majority | 2,923 | 7.1 | -9.8 | ||
Turnout | 73.5 | +0.8 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Roy Harris Jenkins | 22,421 | 56.8 | +3.2 | |
Conservative | David Laidlaw Knox | 17,033 | 43.2 | -3.2 | |
Majority | 5,388 | 13.7 | +6.6 | ||
Turnout | 71.0 | -2.5 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Rt Hon. Roy Harris Jenkins | 24,597 | 64.2 | +7.4 | |
Conservative | David Laidlaw Knox | 12,727 | 33.2 | -10.0 | |
Communist | William Dunn | 998 | 2.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 11,871 | 31.0 | +17.3 | ||
Turnout | 70.2 | -0.8 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Rt Hon. Roy Harris Jenkins | 22,559 | 56.2 | -8.0 | |
Conservative | John B Stevens | 15,848 | 39.5 | +6.3 | |
National Democratic | Douglas Hardy | 1,483 | 3.6 | N/A | |
Communist | Sidney Pegg | 298 | 0.8 | -1.8 | |
Majority | 6,711 | 16.7 | -14.3 | ||
Turnout | 63.8 | -6.4 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Rt Hon. Roy Harris Jenkins | 23,704 | 53.1 | -3.1 | |
Conservative | David John Wedgwood | 13,472 | 30.1 | -9.5 | |
Liberal | Graham Gopsill | 7,221 | 16.2 | N/A | |
Workers Revolutionary | Royston Bull | 280 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,232 | 22.9 | +6.2 | ||
Turnout | 72.1 | +8.3 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Rt Hon. Roy Harris Jenkins | 23,075 | 57.6 | +4.5 | |
Conservative | David John Wedgwood | 11,152 | 27.8 | −2.4 | |
Liberal | Graham Gopsill | 5,860 | 14.6 | −1.4 | |
Majority | 11,923 | 29.7 | +6.9 | ||
Turnout | 40,087 | 64.1 | −1.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Andrew James MacKay | 15,731 | 43.4 | +15.6 | |
Labour | Terence Anthony Gordon Davis | 13,782 | 38.0 | −19.6 | |
National Front | Andrew Henry William Brons | 2,955 | 8.2 | N/A | |
Liberal | Graham Gopsill | 2,901 | 8.0 | −6.4 | |
International Marxist | Brian Heron | 494 | 1.4 | N/A | |
Socialist Workers | Paul Mackintosh Foot | 377 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Turnout | 36,240 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Terence Anthony Gordon Davis | 21,166 | 48.4 | −9.2 | |
Conservative | Andrew James MacKay | 19,517 | 44.6 | +16.8 | |
Liberal | Graham Gopsill | 2,349 | 5.4 | −9.2 | |
National Front | F. Russell | 698 | 1.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,649 | 3.8 | −25.9 | ||
Turnout | 71.6 | +7.5 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
NB: Changes are from previous general election
References
- ^ "'Birmingham Stechford', Feb 1974 - May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 16 March 2016.