Birmingham Ladywood (UK Parliament Constituency)
Boundaries
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.
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.
1997–2010: The City of Birmingham wards of Aston, Ladywood, Nechells, and Soho.
2010–2024: As 1997 but with redrawn boundaries.
2024–present: The City of Birmingham wards of Alum Rock; Balsall Heath West; Bordesley & Highgate; Bordesley Green; Ladywood; Nechells; Newtown; Soho & Jewellery Quarter.
After adjusting the boundaries to take into account the revised ward structure in the City of Birmingham with effect from May 2018, the Aston ward was transferred to Birmingham Perry Barr and the North Edgbaston ward to Birmingham Edgbaston, offset by the gain of the Balsall Heath West ward from Birmingham Hall Green and the Alum Rock ward from Birmingham Hodge Hill.
Constituency profile
Birmingham Ladywood includes Birmingham City Centre along with the areas of Aston, Ladywood, Nechells and Soho. The area is one of the most multicultural in Birmingham and the whole of the United Kingdom; in the 1991 census, 55.6% of the constituency population were ethnic minorities, the highest in England at the time. In the recession of 2008–09, it was the first place in the UK where the unemployment claimant count rate 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%). For the year ending September 2014, the unemployment rate was 12.4%, 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).
The average house price in Ladywood is just under £155,000; making it much lower than the national average of just over £288,000.
History
- Summary of results
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 and the immediately surrounding period when its majority was marginal. The seat was regained for Labour by Doris Fisher at the 1970 general election. The 2015 general election result made the seat the sixth-safest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.
- Notable representatives
The constituency's first MP was the future Conservative Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who transferred to the Edgbaston seat in 1929. The current MP is Shabana Mahmood, one of the UK's first three female Muslim MPs.
The first campaign for this constituency in 1918 was notable because the Liberal Party candidate was Mrs Margery Corbett Ashby, one of only seventeen women candidates to contest a parliamentary election at the first opportunity. Chamberlain reacted to this intervention by being one of the few male candidates to specifically target women voters; deploying his wife, issuing a special leaflet headed "A word to the Ladies" and holding two meetings in the afternoon.
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 MP.
Elections
Elections in the 2020s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Green | Zoe Challenor | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Lee Dargue | ||||
Labour | Shabana Mahmood | ||||
Conservative | Shazna Muzammil | ||||
Independent | Akhmed Yakoob | ||||
Reform UK | Irene Yoong-Henery | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Shabana Mahmood | 33,355 | 79.2 | –3.5 | |
Conservative | Mary Noone | 4,773 | 11.3 | –1.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Lee Dargue | 2,228 | 5.3 | +2.5 | |
Green | Alex Nettle | 931 | 2.2 | +0.9 | |
Brexit Party | Andrew Garcarz | 831 | 1.9 | New | |
Majority | 28,582 | 67.9 | –1.6 | ||
Turnout | 42,118 | 56.2 | –2.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –0.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Shabana Mahmood | 34,166 | 82.7 | +9.1 | |
Conservative | Andrew Browning | 5,452 | 13.2 | +0.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Lee Dargue | 1,156 | 2.8 | –1.0 | |
Green | Kefentse Dennis | 533 | 1.3 | –2.9 | |
Majority | 28,714 | 69.5 | +8.6 | ||
Turnout | 41,307 | 59.0 | +6.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +4.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Shabana Mahmood | 26,444 | 73.6 | +17.9 | |
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 | 1,374 | 3.8 | –23.7 | |
Liberty GB | Tim Burton | 216 | 0.6 | New | |
Majority | 21,868 | 60.9 | +32.7 | ||
Turnout | 35,916 | 52.7 | +4.0 | ||
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 | +5.9 | ||
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 | Lyn Nazemi-Afshar | 2,008 | 6.0 | +5.1 | |
Majority | 6,801 | 20.4 | –37.2 | ||
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 | +0.2 | |
People's Justice | Allah Ditta | 2,112 | 6.7 | New | |
Socialist Labour | Surinder P. Virdee | 443 | 1.4 | New | |
Muslim Party | Mahmood Hussain | 432 | 1.4 | New | |
ProLife Alliance | James Caffery | 392 | 1.2 | New | |
UKIP | Anneliese Nattrass | 283 | 0.9 | New | |
Majority | 18,143 | 57.6 | –2.8 | ||
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 | Ruth A. Gurney | 1,086 | 2.9 | New | |
National Democrats | Andrew Carmichael | 685 | 1.8 | New | |
Majority | 23,082 | 60.8 | +9.8 | ||
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 | Barbara S. Ashford | 9,604 | 25.6 | –5.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Brian L. Worth | 3,068 | 8.2 | –1.1 | |
Majority | 15,283 | 40.7 | +14.4 | ||
Turnout | 37,559 | 65.9 | +1.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +7.1 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Clare Short | 21,971 | 57.7 | +6.7 | |
Conservative | Simon Lee | 11,943 | 31.3 | +4.2 | |
SDP | Gurdial Singh Sangha | 3,532 | 9.3 | –11.2 | |
Green | Joyce Millington | 650 | 1.7 | New | |
Majority | 10,028 | 26.4 | +2.5 | ||
Turnout | 38,096 | 64.8 | +2.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Clare Short | 19,278 | 51.0 | –3.1 | |
Conservative | Pramilia Le Hunte | 10,248 | 27.1 | –10.6 | |
Liberal | Kenneth Hardeman | 7,758 | 20.5 | +12.5 | |
Stop Deportation of Black People | Baba Bakhtaura | 355 | 0.9 | New | |
Workers Revolutionary | Rodney Atkinson | 198 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 9,030 | 23.9 | –7.5 | ||
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 | 36.6 | –5.8 | ||
Turnout | 21,071 | 62.3 | +5.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –2.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Sever | 8,227 | 53.1 | –11.4 | |
Conservative | Quentin Davies | 4,402 | 28.4 | +6.3 | |
National Front | Anthony Reed Herbert | 888 | 5.7 | New | |
Liberal | Kenneth George Hardeman | 765 | 4.9 | –8.5 | |
Socialist Unity | Raghib Ahsan | 534 | 3.5 | New | |
Independent | James Hunte | 336 | 2.2 | New | |
Independent Conservative | George Matthews | 71 | 0.5 | New | |
Reform Party | Peter Courtney | 63 | 0.4 | New | |
Air Road Public Safety | Bill Boaks | 46 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 3,825 | 24.7 | –17.7 | ||
Turnout | 15,484 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | 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 | +7.7 | ||
Turnout | 22,983 | 56.9 | –7.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | 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 | New | |
Majority | 8,962 | 34.7 | +26.3 | ||
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 | Charles Lawrence Wade | 2,523 | 21.6 | +4.2 | |
Majority | 980 | 8.4 | –26.8 | ||
Turnout | 11,677 | 62.2 | +2.5 | ||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Wallace Lawler | 5,104 | 54.4 | +30.7 | |
Labour | Doris Fisher | 2,391 | 25.5 | –33.6 | |
Conservative | Louis Glass | 1,580 | 16.8 | –0.6 | |
British Movement | Colin Jordan | 282 | 3.0 | New | |
Fellowship | James Haigh | 34 | 0.4 | New | |
Majority | 2,713 | 28.9 | N/A | ||
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 | New | |
Conservative | Thomas G. John | 2,621 | 17.4 | –19.4 | |
Majority | 5,315 | 35.2 | +10.8 | ||
Turnout | 15,096 | 59.7 | +6.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Victor Yates | 10,098 | 63.2 | –0.5 | |
Conservative | Thomas G. John | 5,879 | 36.8 | +0.5 | |
Majority | 4,219 | 26.4 | –1.0 | ||
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 | Thomas G. John | 8,393 | 36.3 | +2.0 | |
Majority | 6,324 | 27.4 | –4.0 | ||
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 | Peter W Hodgens | 9,665 | 34.3 | –6.1 | |
Majority | 8,811 | 31.4 | +12.2 | ||
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 | Leslie Seymour | 16,331 | 40.4 | +1.8 | |
Majority | 7,757 | 19.2 | –3.6 | ||
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 | +11.0 | ||
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 | |
Conservative | Geoffrey Lloyd | 10,657 | 44.1 | –27.7 | |
Majority | 2,846 | 11.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 24,160 | 70.1 | +4.1 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +27.7 |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Geoffrey Lloyd | 18,565 | 71.8 | ||
Labour | Hubert Humphreys | 7,311 | 28.3 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 11,254 | 43.5 | –0.1 | ||
Turnout | 25,876 | 66.0 | –12.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Geoffrey Lloyd | 23,057 | 71.8 | +21.8 | |
Labour | Wilfrid Whiteley | 9,057 | 28.2 | –21.8 | |
Majority | 14,000 | 43.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 32,114 | 78.1 | |||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Wilfrid Whiteley | 16,447 | 50.0 | +1.1 | |
Unionist | Geoffrey William Lloyd | 16,436 | 50.0 | +0.9 | |
Majority | 11 | 0.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 32,883 | ||||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Neville Chamberlain | 13,374 | 49.1 | –4.1 | |
Labour | Oswald Mosley | 13,297 | 48.9 | +2.1 | |
Liberal | Alfred William Bowkett | 539 | 2.0 | New | |
Majority | 77 | 0.2 | –3.8 | ||
Turnout | 27,200 | 80.5 | +8.5 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | –2.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | 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 | 24,214 | 72.0 | +1.5 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | –2.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Neville Chamberlain | 13,032 | 55.2 | –14.3 | |
Labour | Robert Dunstan | 10,589 | 44.8 | +25.8 | |
Majority | 2,443 | 10.4 | –40.1 | ||
Turnout | 23,621 | 70.5 | +29.9 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | –20.0 |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
C | Unionist | Neville Chamberlain | 9,405 | 69.5 | |
Labour | John William Kneeshaw | 2,572 | 19.0 | ||
Liberal | Margery Corbett Ashby | 1,552 | 11.5 | ||
Majority | 6,833 | 50.5 | |||
Turnout | 13,529 | 40.6 | |||
Unionist win (new seat) | |||||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
See also
- List of parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (county)
- List of parliamentary constituencies in West Midlands (region)