Birmingham Yardley is a constituency of part of the city of Birmingham represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Jess Phillips of the Labour Party.
Yardley Rural District was annexed to Birmingham under the 1911 Greater Birmingham Act.
Members of Parliament
From the seat's creation in 1918 until the 2005 general election, the MP elected for Birmingham Yardley was on all but three occasions a member of the party that won the general election, making it a former bellwether seat.
Exceptions were Labour wins in the constituency compared to Conservative wins nationally in 1951, 1955 and 1992.
Boundaries
Yardley area committee district is coterminous with the seat which covers an area of the south-east of Birmingham with and on the boundaries of Solihull.
It borders the parliamentary constituencies of Solihull, Meriden, Birmingham Hall Green and Birmingham Hodge Hill.
2010–present: The City of Birmingham wards of Acocks Green, Sheldon, South Yardley, and Stechford and Yardley North.
1983–2010: The City of Birmingham wards of Acocks Green, Sheldon, and Yardley.
1950–1983: The County Borough of Birmingham wards of Acocks Green, Sheldon, and Yardley.
1918–1950: The County Borough of Birmingham wards of Saltley, Small Heath, and Yardley.
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Elections in the 2000s
Elections in the 1990s
Elections in the 1980s
Elections in the 1970s
Elections in the 1960s
Elections in the 1950s
Elections in the 1940s
Elections in the 1930s
Elections in the 1920s
Election in the 1910s
See also
List of Parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (county)
Notes
References
External links
Birmingham city council constituency page
