Birmingham Small Heath was a parliamentary constituency

United Kingdom constituencies

In the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly.Within the United Kingdom there are now five bodies with members elected by constituencies:...

 centred on the Small Heath

Small Heath, Birmingham

Small Heath is an inner-city area within the city of Birmingham, West Midlands, England. It is situated on and around the A45 ....

 area of Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

. It returned one Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Parliament of the United Kingdom

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.

The constituency was created for the 1950 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1950

The 1950 United Kingdom general election was the first general election ever after a full term of a Labour government. Despite polling over one and a half million votes more than the Conservatives, the election, held on 23 February 1950 resulted in Labour receiving a slim majority of just five...

, and abolished for the 1997 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1997

The United Kingdom general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997, more than five years after the previous election on 9 April 1992, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party ended its 18 years in opposition under the leadership of Tony Blair, and won the general...

, when it was partly replaced by the new Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath constituency.

Boundaries

Throughout its existence the constituency included the Small Heath ward, but that district was linked with various adjoining parts of the inner-city area of Birmingham. In its first three incarnations the constituency was to the south east of the city centre. Its boundaries moved more to the east of the centre in the 1983 redistribution.

1950-1955: The constituency comprised the then Birmingham City Council wards of Duddeston, Saltley and Small Heath. Before 1950 Duddeston ward had been part of Birmingham Duddeston

Birmingham Duddeston (UK Parliament constituency)

Birmingham Duddeston was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1950. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post system of election.- Boundaries :...

 constituency and the other two wards had formed part of Birmingham Yardley.

1955-1974: Duddeston ward was transferred to Birmingham Ladywood. Deritend ward was added to this constituency having formerly been part of Birmingham Sparkbrook

Birmingham Sparkbrook (UK Parliament constituency)

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....

. Saltley and Small Heath wards were not affected by the redistribution.

1974-1983: The division, in this redistribution, comprised Duddeston, Newtown, Saltley and Small Heath wards. Duddeston ward had formerly been in Birmingham Ladywood. Deritend ward was transferred to Birmingham Edgbaston.

1983-1997: The new version of the constituency consisted of Aston, Nechells and Small Heath wards. 72.7% of the new constituency came from the old one, 11.9% from Birmingham Handsworth

Birmingham Handsworth (UK Parliament constituency)

Birmingham Handsworth was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Handsworth district of Birmingham. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom...

 (Aston ward) and smaller amounts from Birmingham Sparkbrook

Birmingham Sparkbrook (UK Parliament constituency)

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....

 (6.1%), Birmingham Erdington (4.9%), Birmingham Yardley (2.6%) and Birmingham Ladywood (1.7%).

In the 1997 redistribution this constituency disappeared. Small Heath ward joined a new seat of Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath. Aston and Nechells wards became part of Birmingham Ladywood.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1950 United Kingdom general election, 1950 The 1950 United Kingdom general election was the first general election ever after a full term of a Labour government. Despite polling over one and a half million votes more than the Conservatives, the election, held on 23 February 1950 resulted in Labour receiving a slim majority of just five...	Fred Longden Fred Longden Fred Longden was a British Labour Co-operative politician.Brought up in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, he joined the Independent Labour Party and was elected to its National Council. In the First World War he became active in the Union of Democratic Control, and was arrested for making a speech...	Labour Co-operative Labour Co-operative Labour and Co-operative describes those candidates in British elections standing on behalf of both the Labour Party and the Co-operative Party, based on a national agreement between the two parties....
	1952 by-election	William Wheeldon William Wheeldon William Edwin Wheeldon was a British co-operator and municipal politician from Birmingham who later became a Member of Parliament....	Labour Co-operative Labour Co-operative Labour and Co-operative describes those candidates in British elections standing on behalf of both the Labour Party and the Co-operative Party, based on a national agreement between the two parties....
	1961 by-election	Denis Howell	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
	1992 United Kingdom general election, 1992 The United Kingdom general election of 1992 was held on 9 April 1992, and was the fourth consecutive victory for the Conservative Party. This election result was one of the biggest surprises in 20th Century politics, as polling leading up to the day of the election showed Labour under leader Neil...	Roger Godsiff	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
	1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997 The United Kingdom general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997, more than five years after the previous election on 9 April 1992, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party ended its 18 years in opposition under the leadership of Tony Blair, and won the general...	constituency abolished: see Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath

Election results

Explanatory notes:-

• The votes figure in the 'Turnout' box is the number of registered electors.
• No swing figure is calculated unless the same two parties are in first and second place in both the present and the last election. Swing is the average of the party % vote change between the pair of elections. A positive swing is towards Conservative and a negative swing is towards Labour.
• Labour Co-operative and Labour candidates are regarded as members of the same party. The Liberal, SDP and Liberal Democrat candidates are treated as being from the same party for the purpose of % changes.

• Death of Longden 5 October 1952

• Boundary Changes

• Death of Wheeldon 7 October 1960

• Boundary changes

• Boundary changes

• Constituency abolished 1997