Birmingham Sparkbrook (UK Parliament constituency)

Birmingham Sparkbrook
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	West Midlands
1918–1997
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Birmingham Sparkbrook & Small Heath

Birmingham, Sparkbrook was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Sparkbrook area of Birmingham. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election, when it was partly replaced by the new Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath constituency.

Boundaries

1918-1950: Parts of the County Borough of Birmingham wards of Balsall Heath, Moseley and King's Heath, and Sparkbrook.

1950-1955: The County Borough of Birmingham wards of Balsall Heath, St Martin's and Deritend, and Sparkbrook.

1955-1983: The County Borough of Birmingham wards of Fox Hollies, Sparkbrook, and Sparkhill.

1983-1997: The City of Birmingham wards of Fox Hollies, Sparkbrook, and Sparkhill.

Members of Parliament

The constituency's most high-profile MP was Roy Hattersley, who represented it for over 30 years and was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party under Neil Kinnock from 1983 to 1992. He retired in 1997 when the seat was abolished, its replacement being won by Roger Godsiff.

	Member	Party^[1]
1918	Leo Amery	Coalition Conservative
1922	Leo Amery	Conservative
1945	Percy Shurmer	Labour
1959	Leslie Seymour	Conservative
1964	Roy Hattersley	Labour
1997	constituency abolished: see Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath

Elections

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1923: Birmingham Sparkbrook ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Rt Hon. Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery	13,523	56.0	+6.5
	Labour	Ernest Walter Hampton	5,948	24.6	+1.2
	Liberal	Donald Leslie Finnemore	4,676	19.4	-7.7
Majority			7,575	31.4	-10.6
Turnout				63.7	-7.3
	Unionist hold		Swing	-5.3

General Election 1929: Birmingham Sparkbrook ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Unionist	Rt Hon. Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery	15,867	46.2
	Labour	A. Young	12,875	37.4
	Liberal	Thomas Foater Duggan	5,645	16.4
Majority			2,992	8.8
Turnout
	Unionist hold		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Birmingham Sparkbrook ^[1]^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Rt Hon. Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery	23,517	73.36	+27.16
	Labour	George Archibald	8,538	26.64	-10.76
Majority			14,979	46.73	+37.93
Turnout			32,055	69.57
Registered electors			46,073
	Conservative hold		Swing	+18.96

General Election 1935: Birmingham Sparkbrook ^[1]^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Rt Hon. Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery	17,509	68.47	-4.89
	Labour	Henry Whittaker	8,063	31.53	+4.89
Majority			9,446	36.94	-9.79
Turnout			25,572	57.28	-12.29
Registered electors			44,647
	Conservative hold		Swing	-4.89

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Birmingham Sparkbrook ^[1]^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Percy Lionel Edward Shurmer	14,065	57.76	+26.23
	Conservative	Rt Hon. Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery	8,431	34.63	-23.84
	Communist	Rajani Palme Dutt	1,853	7.61	N/A
Majority			5,634	23.14	N/A
Turnout			24,349	66.68	+9.4
Registered electors			36,517
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	+25.04

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Birmingham Sparkbrook ^[5]^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Percy Lionel Edward Shurmer	24,942	61.49	+3.73
	Conservative	Piers Kenrick Debenham	15,267	37.64	+3.01
	Communist	James Crump	355	0.88	-6.73
Majority			9,675	23.85	+0.71
Turnout			40,564	77.58	+10.90
Registered electors			52,287
	Labour hold		Swing	+0.36

General Election 1951: Birmingham Sparkbrook ^[7]^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Percy Lionel Edward Shurmer	24,184	61.33	-0.16
	Conservative	Lt.-Col Richard Thomas Henry Lonsdale	15,248	38.67	+1.03
Majority			8,936	22.66	-1.19
Turnout			39,423	76.41	-1.17
Registered electors			51,607
	Labour hold		Swing	-0.60

General Election 1955: Birmingham Sparkbrook ^[9]^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Percy Lionel Edward Shurmer	20,032	54.36	-8.97
	Conservative	Philip G Hartley	16,821	45.64	+8.97
Majority			3,211	8.71	-13.95
Turnout			36,853	72.18	-4.23
Registered electors			51,057
	Labour hold		Swing	-8.97

General Election 1959: Birmingham Sparkbrook ^[11]^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Leslie George Seymour	17,751	51.28	+5.64
	Labour	John T Webster	16,865	48.72	-5.64
Majority			886	2.56	N/A
Turnout			34,616	72.52	+0.34
Registered electors			47,731
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+5.64

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1964: Birmingham Sparkbrook ^[13]^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Roy Sydney George Hattersley	16,287	52.00	+3.28
	Conservative	Leslie George Seymour	15,033	48.00	-3.28
Majority			1,254	4.00	N/A
Turnout			31,320	68.27	-4.25
Registered electors			45,877
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	+3.28

General Election 1966: Birmingham Sparkbrook ^[15]^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Roy Sydney George Hattersley	18,266	60.62	+8.62
	Conservative	Leslie George Seymour	11,868	39.38	-8.62
Majority			6,398	21.23	+17.23
Turnout			30,134	66.74	-1.53
Registered electors			45,148
	Labour hold		Swing	+8.62

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Birmingham Sparkbrook^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Roy Sydney George Hattersley	14,773	52.74	-7.88
	Conservative	Anthony EJ Mitton	11,427	40.79	+1.41
	Liberal	John Crofton	1,813	6.47	N/A
Majority			3,346	11.94	-9.29
Turnout			28,013	64.89	-1.85
Registered electors			43,168
	Labour hold		Swing	-4.65

General Election, February 1974: Birmingham Sparkbrook^[18]^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Roy Sydney George Hattersley	19,939	61.40	+8.66
	Conservative	David Jack Savage	12,534	38.60	-2.19
Majority			7,405	22.80	+10.86
Turnout			32,473	65.79	+0.9
Registered electors			49,344
	Labour hold		Swing	+5.43

General Election, October 1974: Birmingham Sparkbrook^[19]^[20]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Roy Sydney George Hattersley	17,476	58.45	-2.95
	Conservative	David Jack Savage	8,955	29.95	-8.65
	Liberal	Cecil Edward Williams	2,920	9.77	N/A
	Irish Civil Rights	Joseph Molloy	548	1.83	N/A
Majority			8,521	28.50	+5.7
Turnout			29,899	60.19	-5.6
Registered electors			49,683
	Labour hold		Swing	+2.85

General Election, 1979: Birmingham Sparkbrook^[19]^[21]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Roy Sydney George Hattersley	18,717	62.75	+4.30
	Conservative	Nicholas John David Webb	10,398	34.86	+4.91
	Communist Party	Roger Murray	715	2.40	N/A
Majority			8,319	27.89	-0.61
Turnout			29,830	64.97	+4.78
Registered electors			45,910
	Labour hold		Swing	-0.31

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1983: Birmingham Sparkbrook^[22]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Roy Sydney George Hattersley	19,757	59.93	-4.8
	Conservative	Peter Ernest Douglas-Osborn	9,209	27.93	-4.97
	Social Democratic	Omkar Singh Parmar	3,416	10.36	+0.91
	Revolutionary Communist	Fran Eden	305	0.93	N/A
	Independent	Carl Steven Alfred Chinn	281	0.85	N/A
Majority			10,548	31.99
Turnout			32,968	61.49
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1987: Birmingham Sparkbrook^[22]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Roy Sydney George Hattersley	20,513	60.82	+0.9
	Conservative	Nazir Ahmed Khan	8,654	25.66	−2.3
	Social Democratic	Robin John Chirgwin Dimmick	3,803	11.28	+0.9
	Green	Rex Andrew Ambler	526	1.56	N/A
	Red Front	Pervaiz Khan	229	0.68	N/A
Majority			11,859	35.2	+3.17
Turnout			33,725	63.52	+2.03
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Birmingham Sparkbrook^[23]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Roy Sydney George Hattersley	22,116	64.1	+3.2
	Conservative	Mohammed Jaffer Khamisa	8,544	24.8	−0.9
	Liberal Democrat	David John Parry	3,028	8.8	−2.5
	Green	Charles John Alldrick	833	2.4	+0.9
Majority			13,572	39.3	+4.2
Turnout			34,521	66.8	+3.3
	Labour hold		Swing	+2.1

Birmingham Constituencies

Current	Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham Erdington Birmingham Hall Green Birmingham Hodge Hill Birmingham Ladywood Birmingham Northfield Birmingham Perry Barr Birmingham Selly Oak Birmingham Yardley Sutton Coldfield

Historic	Aston Manor (1885-1918) Birmingham (1832–1885) Birmingham Acock's Green (1945-1950) Birmingham All Saints (1955-1974) Birmingham Aston (1918-1974) Birmingham Bordesley (1885–1918) Birmingham Central (1885–1918) Birmingham Deritend (1918-1950) Birmingham Duddeston (1918-1950) Birmingham East (1885-1918) Birmingham Handsworth (1918-1983) Birmingham King's Norton (1918-1955) Birmingham Moseley (1918-1950) Birmingham North (1885-1918) Birmingham Small Heath (1950-1997) Birmingham South (1885-1918) Birmingham Sparkbrook (1918-1997) Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath (1997-2010) Birmingham Stechford (1950-1983) Birmingham West (1885-1950) Handsworth (1885-1918)

References

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 4)

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