| Southampton Test Borough constituency |
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| Southampton Test shown within Hampshire, and Hampshire shown within England | |
| Created: | 1950 |
| MP: | Alan Whitehead |
| Party: | Labour |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Hampshire |
| EP constituency: | South East England |
Southampton Test is a borough constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
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History
The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, when the previous two-member Southampton constituency was abolished.
Boundaries
The seat covers the western part of the City of Southampton, in southern England and is named after the River Test, one of the city's two rivers. It covers the leafy northern suburbs and the western port areas as well as the council housing estates of the western fringes. It is seen as the marginally more affluent of the two constituencies in the city, and has had more Tory traditions than its neighbour Southampton Itchen — named after the other major river.
Southampton Test covers the city wards of (with their associated neighbourhoods):
- Bassett (Bassett, Bassett Green)
- Bevois (Bevois Valley, Northam, Mount Pleasant, part of St. Mary's)
- Coxford (Lord's Hill, Lordswood, Aldermoor)
- Freemantle (Freemantle and part of Shirley)
- Millbrook (Millbrook, Regents Park)
- Portswood (Portswood, Highfield (including the University), St Denys)
- Redbridge (Redbridge, Maybush)
- Shirley (part of Shirley, Upper Shirley, Southampton Common)
- Swaythling (Swaythling, Mansbridge)
The constituency is bounded to the east by Southampton Itchen (Labour), to the north by Romsey (Liberal Democrat) and in to the west by New Forest East (Conservative).
Swaythling and Bassett wards will be part of Romsey and Southampton North after the next election.
Members of Parliament
The seat has been represented since 1997 by Alan Whitehead of the Labour Party.
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1950 | Dr Horace King | Labour | |
| 1955 | John Howard | Conservative | |
| 1964 | Sir John Fletcher-Cooke | Conservative | |
| 1966 | Bob Mitchell | Labour | |
| 1970 | James Hill | Conservative | |
| Oct 1974 | Bryan Gould | Labour | |
| 1979 | James Hill | Conservative | |
| 1997 | Dr Alan Whitehead | Labour | |
Elections
| Confirmed candidates for the next UK general election [1] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Alan Whitehead | ||||
| Conservative | Jeremy Moulton | ||||
| Liberal Democrat | Dave Callaghan | ||||
| General Election 2005: Southampton Test | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Alan Whitehead | 17,845 | 42.7 | −9.8 | |
| Conservative | Stephen MacLoughlin | 10,827 | 25.9 | +0.4 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Steve Sollitt | 10,368 | 24.8 | +6.7 | |
| Green | John Spottiswoode | 1,482 | 3.5 | N/A | |
| UKIP | Peter Day | 1,261 | 3.0 | +1.1 | |
| Majority | 7,018 | 16.8 | |||
| Turnout | 41,783 | 53.7 | −2.6 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | −5.1 | |||
| General Election 2001: Southampton Test | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Alan Whitehead | 21,824 | 52.5 | -1.7 | |
| Conservative | Richard Gueterbock | 10,617 | 25.5 | -2.5 | |
| Liberal Democrat | John Shaw | 7,522 | 18.1 | +4.4 | |
| UKIP | Garry Rankin-Moore | 792 | 1.9 | +1.5 | |
| Socialist Alliance | Mark Abel | 442 | 1.1 | N/A | |
| Socialist Labour | Paramjit Bahia | 378 | 0.9 | N/A | |
| Majority | 11,207 | 27.0 | |||
| Turnout | 41,575 | 56.3 | -15.4 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
See also
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References
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