Birmingham Stechford (UK Parliament constituency)

Birmingham Stechford
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	West Midlands
1950–1983
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Birmingham Hodge Hill and Birmingham Yardley[1]

Birmingham Stechford was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Stechford district of the city of Birmingham. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.

The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election. Stechford itself is now part of the Birmingham Yardley seat.

Boundaries

1950-1974: The County Borough of Birmingham wards of Stechford and Washwood Heath.

1974-1983: The County Borough of Birmingham wards of Shard End, Stechford, and Washwood Heath.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1950	Roy Jenkins	Labour
	1977 by-election	Andrew MacKay	Conservative
	1979	Terry Davis	Labour
1983		constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Birmingham Stechford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Roy Harris Jenkins	33,077	58.5	N/A
	Conservative	Edith Maud Pitt	20,699	36.6	N/A
	Liberal	SW Haslam	2,789	5.0	N/A
Majority			12,378	21.9	N/A
Turnout				83.4	N/A

General Election 1951: Birmingham Stechford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Roy Harris Jenkins	34,355	59.5	+1
	Conservative	Edith Maud Pitt	23,384	40.5	+3.9
Majority			10,971	19.0	-2.9
Turnout				81.4	-2.0
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Birmingham Stechford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Roy Harris Jenkins	23,358	58.4	-1.1
	Conservative	Joseph Morris Bailey	16,618	41.6	+1.1
Majority			6,740	16.9	-2.1
Turnout				72.7	-8.7
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1959: Birmingham Stechford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Roy Harris Jenkins	21,919	53.6	-4.8
	Conservative	Joseph Morris Bailey	18,996	46.4	+4.8
Majority			2,923	7.1	-9.8
Turnout				73.5	+0.8
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1964: Birmingham Stechford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Roy Harris Jenkins	22,421	56.8	+3.2
	Conservative	David Laidlaw Knox	17,033	43.2	-3.2
Majority			5,388	13.7	+6.6
Turnout				71.0	-2.5
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1966: Birmingham Stechford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rt Hon. Roy Harris Jenkins	24,597	64.2	+7.4
	Conservative	David Laidlaw Knox	12,727	33.2	-10.0
	Communist	William Dunn	998	2.6	N/A
Majority			11,871	31.0	+17.3
Turnout				70.2	-0.8
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Birmingham Stechford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rt Hon. Roy Harris Jenkins	22,559	56.2	-8.0
	Conservative	John B Stevens	15,848	39.5	+6.3
	National Democratic	Douglas Hardy	1,483	3.6	N/A
	Communist	Sidney Pegg	298	0.8	-1.8
Majority			6,711	16.7	-14.3
Turnout				63.8	-6.4
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Birmingham Stechford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rt Hon. Roy Harris Jenkins	23,704	53.1	-3.1
	Conservative	David John Wedgwood	13,472	30.1	-9.5
	Liberal	Graham Gopsill	7,221	16.2	N/A
	Workers Revolutionary	Royston Bull	280	0.6	N/A
Majority			10,232	22.9	+6.2
Turnout				72.1	+8.3
	Labour hold		Swing

Roy Jenkins

General Election October 1974: Birmingham Stechford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rt Hon. Roy Harris Jenkins	23,075	57.6	+4.5
	Conservative	David John Wedgwood	11,152	27.8	−2.4
	Liberal	Graham Gopsill	5,860	14.6	−1.4
Majority			11,923	29.7	+6.9
Turnout			40,087	64.1	−1.7
	Labour hold		Swing

Birmingham Stechford by-election, 1977
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Andrew James MacKay	15,731	43.4	+15.6
	Labour	Terence Anthony Gordon Davis	13,782	38.0	−19.6
	National Front	Andrew Henry William Brons	2,955	8.2	N/A
	Liberal	Graham Gopsill	2,901	8.0	−6.4
	International Marxist	Brian Heron	494	1.4	N/A
	Socialist Workers	Paul Mackintosh Foot	377	1.0	N/A
Turnout			36,240
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1979: Birmingham Stechford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Terence Anthony Gordon Davis	21,166	48.4	−9.2
	Conservative	Andrew James MacKay	19,517	44.6	+16.8
	Liberal	Graham Gopsill	2,349	5.4	−9.2
	National Front	F. Russell	698	1.6	N/A
Majority			1,649	3.8	−25.9
Turnout				71.6	+7.5
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

NB: Changes are from previous general election

References

1. "'Birmingham Stechford', Feb 1974 - May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 16 March 2016.

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 5)