Birmingham Yardley (UK Parliament constituency)

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**Birmingham, Yardley**
Borough constituency

Birmingham, Yardley shown within Birmingham, and Birmingham shown within England
Created:	1918
MP:	John Hemming
Party:	Liberal Democrat
Type:	House of Commons
County:	West Midlands
EP constituency:	West Midlands

Birmingham, Yardley 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.

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

[edit] Boundaries

Yardley area committee district is situated in the south-east of Birmingham, at the boundary of Solihull.

[edit] Boundary review

Following the review of parliamentary representation in Birmingham and the West Midlands by the Boundary Commission for England, Yardley is to be modified with the following electoral wards making up a revised constituency.

Acocks Green, Sheldon, South Yardley, Stechford and Yardley North.

[edit] Members of Parliament

1918 — 1929: Alfred Roger Jephcott, Unionist
1929 — 1931: Archibald George Gossling, Labour
1931 — 1945: Edward William Salt, Conservative
1945 — 1950: Wesley Perrins, Labour
1950 — 1959: Henry Usborne, Labour
1959 — 1964: Leonard Cleaver, Conservative
1964 — 1970: Ioan Evans, Labour Co-operative
1970 — 1974: Derek Coombs, Conservative
1974 — 1979: Syd Tierney, Labour
1979 — 1992: David Bevan, Conservative
1992 — 2005: Estelle Morris, Labour
2005 — present: John Hemming, Liberal Democrat

[edit] Election results

Birmingham, Yardley, historically a rare three-way marginal, was gained by the Liberal Democrat candidate John Hemming in 2005. Despite its marginal Parliamentary history, all local government seats in the constituency are now held by the Liberal Democrats.

Labour's Estelle Morris (now Baroness Morris of Yardley) had held the seat since winning it with a majority of just 162 votes in 1992 but stood down at the 2005 election. John Hemming finally won a Parliamentary seat at the sixth time of asking, having also stood in Yardley in 1992, 1997 and 2001.

General Election 2005: Birmingham, Yardley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	John Hemming	13,648	46.4	+8.1
	Labour	Jayne Innes	10,976	37.3	-9.6
	Conservative	Paul Uppal	2,970	10.1	-3.0
	British National	Robert Purcell	1,523	5.2	N/A
	UK Independence	Mohammed Yaqub	314	1.1	0.0
Majority			2,672	9.1
Turnout			29,431	57.7	+0.5
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing	-8.8

General Election 2001: Birmingham, Yardley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Estelle Morris	14,083	46.9	-0.1
	Liberal Democrats	John Hemming	11,507	38.3	+5.4
	Conservative	Barrie Roberts	3,941	13.1	-4.7
	UK Independence	Alan Ware	329	1.1	+0.7
	Socialist Labour	Colin Wren	151	0.5	N/A
Majority			2,576	8.6
Turnout			30,011	57.2	-13.9
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Birmingham, Yardley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Estelle Morris	17,778	47.0	+12.1
	Liberal Democrats	John Hemming	12,463	33.0	+2.8
	Conservative	Anne Jobson	6,736	17.8	-16.7
	UK Independence	Alan Ware	164	0.4	n/a
Majority			5,314	14.3	+13.9
Turnout			37,141	71.2	-6.8
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1992: Birmingham, Yardley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Estelle Morris	14,884	34.9	-1.7
	Conservative	David Bevan	14,722	34.5	-8.1
	Liberal Democrats	John Hemming	12,899	30.2	+9.6
	National Front	P Read	192	0.4	n/a
Majority			162	0.4
Turnout				78.0	+4.1
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1987: Birmingham, Yardley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Bevan	17,931	42.6
	Labour	Geoffrey Edge	15,409	36.6
	Liberal	L Smith	8,734	20.8
Majority			2,522	6.0
Turnout				73.9
	Conservative 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)