Birmingham Erdington (UK Parliament constituency)

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**Birmingham, Erdington**
Borough constituency

Birmingham, Erdington shown within Birmingham, and Birmingham shown within England
Created:	1918, 1974
MP:	Sion Simon
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	West Midlands
EP constituency:	West Midlands

Birmingham, Erdington is a constituency represented in 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. It is strongly inclined to elect Labour MPs, although the Conservatives were close challengers in the 1980s.

1 Boundaries
- 1.1 Boundary review
2 Member of Parliament
3 Election results
4 See also

[edit] Boundaries

In the north-east of the city of Birmingham, this is a mix of council estates and more affluent suburbs up against the Sutton Coldfield border. The infamous Spaghetti Junction motorway junction is within this constituency. The large Kingstanding council estate is also within this seat.

[edit] Boundary review

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

Erdington, Kingstanding, Stockland Green and Tyburn

[edit] Member of Parliament

1918 - 1929: Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland Conservative
1929 - 1931: Charles James Simmons
1931 - 1936: John Frederick Eales
1936 - 1945: John Allan Cecil Wright
1945 - 1955: Julius Silverman, Labour

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Birmingham, Erdington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sion Simon	16,810	53.0	−3.8
	Conservative	Victoria Elvidge	7,235	22.8	−1.4
	Liberal Democrats	Jerry Evans	5,027	15.8	+4.0
	British National	Sharon Ebanks	1,512	4.8	N/A
	UK Independence	Rannal Hepburn	746	2.3	+0.6
	National Front	Terry Williams	416	1.3	−0.9
Majority			9,575	30.2
Turnout			31,746	48.9	+2.3
	Labour hold		Swing	−1.2

General Election 2001: Birmingham, Erdington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sion Simon	17,375	56.8	-2.0
	Conservative	Oliver Lodge	7,413	24.2	-3.3
	Liberal Democrats	Sandra Johnson	3,602	11.8	+1.6
	National Front	Michael Shore	681	2.2	N/A
	Socialist Alliance	Steven Goddard	669	2.2	N/A
	UK Independence	Mark Nattrass	521	1.7	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Judith Sambrook-Marshall	343	1.1	N/A
Majority			9,962	32.6
Turnout			30,604	46.6	-14.2
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] See also

List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Midlands

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)