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Birmingham Ladywood (UK Parliament constituency)

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Birmingham Ladywood
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Map
Boundaries since 2024
Map of constituency
Boundary of Birmingham Ladywood in West Midlands region
CountyWest Midlands
Population126,693 (2011 census)[1]
Electorate76,585 (2023)[2]
Current constituency
Created1918
Member of ParliamentShabana Mahmood (Labour)
SeatsOne
Created fromBirmingham West and Birmingham North

Birmingham Ladywood is a constituency[n 1] in the city of Birmingham that was created in 1918. The seat has been represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by Shabana Mahmood of the Labour Party since 2010.[n 2] Mahmood currently serves as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice under the government of Keir Starmer.

Boundaries

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Map
Map of 2010-2024 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 is St Andrews, the home of and Birmingham City Football Club.

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.[3]

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: The City of Birmingham wards of Aston, Ladywood, North Edgbaston, Nechells, Bordesley & Highgate, and Soho & Jewellery Quarter.

2024–present: The City of Birmingham wards of Alum Rock; Balsall Heath West; Bordesley & Highgate; Bordesley Green; Ladywood; Nechells; Newtown; Soho & Jewellery Quarter.[4]

After adjusting the boundaries to take into account the revised ward structure in the City of Birmingham with effect from May 2018,[5] 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

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Birmingham Ladywood includes Birmingham City Centre along with the areas of Ladywood, Nechells, Bordesley & Highgate and Soho & Jewellery Quarter. 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.[6] 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%).[7][8] For the year ending September 2014, the unemployment rate was 12.4%,[9] 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).[10]

The average house price in Ladywood is just under £155,000, much lower than the national average of just over £288,000.[11]

History

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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.[12]

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.[13]

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.[14]

Members of Parliament

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Election Member[15] Party
1918 Neville Chamberlain Conservative
1929 Wilfrid Whiteley Labour
1931 Geoffrey Lloyd Conservative
1945 Victor Yates Labour
1969 by-election Wallace Lawler Liberal
1970 Doris Fisher Labour
Feb 1974 Brian Walden Labour
1977 by-election John Sever Labour
1983 Clare Short Labour
2006 Independent
2010 Shabana Mahmood Labour

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

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Elections in the 2020s

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General election 2024: Birmingham Ladywood[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Shabana Mahmood 15,558 42.5 −36.7
Independent
[n 3] 		Akhmed Yakoob 12,137 33.2 N/A
Green Zoe Challenor 3,478 9.5 +7.3
Conservative Shazna Muzammil 2,218 6.1 −5.2
Liberal Democrats Lee Dargue 1,711 4.7 −0.6
Reform UK Irene Yoong-Henery 1,477 4.0 +2.0
Majority 3,421 9.3 −58.6
Turnout 36,579 43.7 −12.5
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 2010s

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General election 2019: Birmingham Ladywood[17]
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 2.0 New
Majority 28,582 67.9 –1.6
Turnout 42,118 56.2 –2.8
Labour hold Swing –0.8
General election 2017: Birmingham Ladywood[18]
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
General election 2015: Birmingham Ladywood[19]
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
General election 2010: Birmingham Ladywood[20][21][22]
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

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General election 2005: Birmingham Ladywood[23]
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
General election 2001: Birmingham Ladywood[24]
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

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General election 1997: Birmingham Ladywood[25][26]
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
General election 1992: Birmingham Ladywood[27][28]
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

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General election 1987: Birmingham Ladywood[29]
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
General election 1983: Birmingham Ladywood[30]
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

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General election 1979: Birmingham Ladywood
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
1977 Birmingham Ladywood by-election
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
General election October 1974: Birmingham Ladywood
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
General election February 1974: Birmingham Ladywood
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
General election 1970: Birmingham Ladywood
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

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1969 Birmingham Ladywood by-election
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
General election 1966: Birmingham Ladywood
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
General election 1964: Birmingham Ladywood
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

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General election 1959: Birmingham Ladywood
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
General election 1955: Birmingham Ladywood
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
General election 1951: Birmingham Ladywood
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
General election 1950: Birmingham Ladywood
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

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General election 1945: Birmingham Ladywood
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

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General election 1935: Birmingham Ladywood
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
General election 1931: Birmingham Ladywood
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

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General election 1929: Birmingham Ladywood[31]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Wilfrid Whiteley 16,447 50.02 +1.1
Unionist Geoffrey William Lloyd 16,436 49.98 +0.9
Majority 11 0.04 N/A
Turnout 32,883
Labour gain from Unionist Swing
General election 1924: Birmingham Ladywood
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
General election 1923: Birmingham Ladywood[31]
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
General election 1922: Birmingham Ladywood[31]
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

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M. Corbett Ashby
General election 1918: Birmingham Ladywood[31]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
C Unionist Neville Chamberlain 9,405 69.5
Labour John 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

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Notes

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  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.
  3. ^ Yakoob contested the election as an Independent, but received endorsement by the Workers Party of Britain.

References

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  4. ^ "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule 1 Part 8 West Midlands region.
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  23. ^ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  24. ^ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
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  29. ^ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  30. ^ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  31. ^ a b c d British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
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