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Birmingham Edgbaston (UK Parliament constituency)

Birmingham Edgbaston (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom


Birmingham Edgbaston is a constituency,[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Preet Gill, a Labour Co-op MP.[n 2]

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The most high-profile MP for the constituency was former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (1937–1940). Since 1953 it has elected a succession of female MPs.

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Boundaries

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1885–1918: The Municipal Borough of Birmingham ward of Edgbaston, part of Rotton Park ward, the local government district of Harborne, and part of the local government district of Balsall Heath.

1918–1974: The County Borough of Birmingham wards of Edgbaston, Harborne, and Market Hall.

1974–1983: The County Borough of Birmingham wards of Deritend, Edgbaston, Harborne, and Quinton.

1983–1997: The City of Birmingham wards of Edgbaston, Harborne, and Quinton.

1997–2018: The City of Birmingham wards of Bartley Green, Edgbaston, Harborne, and Quinton.

2018–present: Following a local government boundary review which came into effect in May 2018,[4] the constituency currently comprises the following City of Birmingham wards:

Proposed

Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the next general election, due by January 2025, the constituency will be composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):

  • The City of Birmingham wards of: Bartley Green; Edgbaston; Harborne; North Edgbaston; Quinton.[5]

The remaining areas of the North Edgbaston ward will be transferred from Birmingham Ladywood, bringing the electorate within the permitted range. Other changes to align with new ward boundaries.

Constituency profile

South west of Birmingham city centre, this is a house and garden-rich and mostly middle-income constituency with limited social housing, featuring parks, Warwickshire's cricket ground and two grammar schools. It was a safe Conservative seat for decades, emphasised by solid Tory areas like Edgbaston itself and Bartley Green, but some areas, such as the more Labour-inclined Quinton and Harborne, have pockets of considerable deprivation and of low incomes, helping Labour hold the seat since 1997. It contains the University of Birmingham's main campus, and most of the student halls.

History

The political division elected Conservative candidates as its MP between a by-election in 1898 and the 1992 general elections inclusive. The election of Gisela Stuart in 1997 produced a 10% majority fractionally exceeded in percentage terms by her re-election in 2001 on a lower turnout, stretching her majority to 12.1%. The 2015 re-election of Stuart gave the seat the thirtieth-smallest majority of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority and represented an improvement on 2010.[6]

On election night in May 1997, Birmingham Edgbaston was the ninth constituency to declare its results and the first seat to be gained by the Labour Party from the Conservatives[7] on a 10% swing, after 99 years of Conservative representation; presaging the Labour landslide victory of that election. Labour have held the seat ever since. Birmingham Edgbaston has returned only female MPs since 1953, longer than any other constituency in the UK.[8] The current MP for the constituency is Preet Gill of the Labour Party, who is the first-ever female Sikh MP in the UK. She was first elected at the 2017 general election, after long-serving Labour MP Gisela Stuart stood down. It has been classified as a marginal seat; although in 2017 and 2019, the Labour Party won more than 50% of the vote.[9]

Turnout has ranged from 78.8% in 1950 to 48% in 1918, and was recorded as 61.5% in 2019.

Elections

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See also

Notes

  1. A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
  2. 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

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  2. "Electorate Figures – Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Archived from the original on 6 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
  3. LGBCE. "Birmingham | LGBCE". www.lgbce.org.uk. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  4. "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule 1 Part 8 West Midlands region.
  5. "Labour Members of Parliament 2015". UK Political.info. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018.
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  7. "Standing to be your new MP for Edgbaston". VoteForAsh.org. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
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  10. "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
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  12. "Parliamentary Candidates". ukipbirmingham.org. Archived from the original on 28 January 2015.
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  14. "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
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  16. "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
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