Birmingham Edgbaston

(UK Parliament constituency)

**Birmingham, Edgbaston**
Borough constituency

Birmingham, Edgbaston shown within Birmingham, and Birmingham shown within England
Created:	1885
MP:	Gisela Stuart
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	West Midlands
EP constituency:	West Midlands

Birmingham Edgbaston is a borough constituency located in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by the first past the post system of election. It is a marginal constituency between the Labour Party and the Conservatives.

Boundaries

Situated to the south and east of Birmingham's centre, this is a neat and mostly middle-class slice, with parks, Warwickshire's cricket ground and two grammar schools. It was once held by former Conservative Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, and had been a traditional Conservative seat for decades. However, suburbs towards Birmingham's city centre have pockets of considerable deprivation, notably Deritend, and have helped Labour hold the seat since 1997.

The seat also contains the Bartley Green ward, which has a higher percentage of working families.

Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Birmingham and the West Midlands, the Boundary Commission for England have created a modified Birmingham, Edgbaston seat, with the following wards:

Bartley Green, Edgbaston, Harborne and Quinton.

History

This seat has returned a female MP for over 50 years. The Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the next General Election is Edgbaston councillor Deirdre Alden, also the defeated Conservative candidate in 2005. This makes it almost certain that the seat will return a woman MP after the next election.

Members of Parliament

	Member	Party
1885	George Dixon	Liberal
1885	George Dixon	Liberal Unionist
1898 by-election	Sir Francis William Lowe	Conservative
1929	Neville Chamberlain	Conservative
1940 by-election	Sir Peter Bennett	Conservative
1953 by-election	Dame Edith Pitt	Conservative
1966	Jill Knight	Conservative
1997	Gisela Stuart	Labour

Election results

2005 General Election: Birmingham, Edgbaston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gisela Stuart	16,465	43.8	-5.3
	Conservative	Deidre Alden	14,116	37.5	+0.9
	Liberal Democrat	Mike Dixon	5,185	13.8	+1.8
	Green	Peter Beck	1,116	3.0	N/A
	UK Independence	Stephen White	749	2.0	N/A
Majority			2,349	6.2
Turnout			37,631	58.0	+2.0

General Election 2001: Birmingham, Edgbaston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gisela Stuart	18,517	49.1	+0.5
	Conservative	Nigel Hastilow	13,819	36.6	-2.0
	Liberal Democrat	Nicola Davies	4,528	12.0	+2.3
	Pro-Euro Conservative	Collis Gretton	454	1.2	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Sam Brackenbury	431	1.1	N/A
Majority			4,698	12.4
Turnout			37,749	56.9	-12.9

General Election 1997: Birmingham, Edgbaston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gisela Stuart	23,554	48.6	+9.3
	Conservative	Andrew Marshall	18,712	38.6	-10.7
	Liberal Democrat	James Gallagher	4,691	9.7	-0.4
	Referendum Party	Jonathan Oakton	1,065	2.2	N/A
	British Democratic Party	Derek Campbell	443	0.9	N/A
Majority			4,842	10.0	10.0
Turnout

Sources

This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

Constituencies in the West Midlands
Labour	Birmingham Edgbaston \| Birmingham, Erdington \| Birmingham Hall Green \| Birmingham Hodge Hill \| Birmingham Northfield \| Birmingham Perry Barr \| Birmingham Selly Oak \| Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath \| Burton \| Cannock Chase \| Coventry North East \| Coventry North West \| Coventry South \| Dudley North \| Dudley South \| Halesowen and Rowley Regis \| Newcastle-under-Lyme \| North Warwickshire \| Nuneaton \| Redditch \| Stafford \| Staffordshire Moorlands \| Stoke-on-Trent Central \| Stoke-on-Trent North \| Stoke-on-Trent South \| Stourbridge \| Tamworth \| Telford \| Walsall North \| Walsall South \| Warley \| Warwick and Leamington \| West Bromwich East \| West Bromwich West \| Wolverhampton North East \| Wolverhampton South East \| Wolverhampton South West \| Worcester
Conservative	Aldridge-Brownhills \| Bromsgrove \| Leominster \| Lichfield \| Ludlow \| Meriden \| Mid Worcestershire \| North Shropshire \| Rugby and Kenilworth \| Shrewsbury and Atcham \| South Staffordshire \| Stone \| Stratford-on-Avon \| Sutton Coldfield \| The Wrekin \| West Worcestershire
Liberal Democrat	Birmingham Yardley \| Hereford \| Solihull
Health Concern	Wyre Forest
Independent	Birmingham, Ladywood
West Midlands European constituency: Conservative (3) \| Labour (2) \| UKIP (1) \| Liberal Democrats (1)

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