County West Midlands Major settlements Coventry European Parliament constituency West Midlands Major settlement Coventry | Electorate 74,870 (December 2010) Created 1974 (1974) Member of parliament Colleen Fletcher Number of members 1 | |
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Created from Coventry North, Coventry East Replaced by Coventry North, Coventry East | ||
Coventry North East is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from the 2015 General Election by Colleen Fletcher of the Labour Party.
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Boundaries
1974-1983: The County Borough of Coventry wards of Foleshill, Henley, Longford, Upper Stoke, and Wyken.
1983-1997: The City of Coventry wards of Foleshill, Henley, Longford, Upper Stoke, and Wyken.
1997-present: The City of Coventry wards of Foleshill, Henley, Longford, Lower Stoke, Upper Stoke, and Wyken.
Based entirely within the borough of Coventry, the seat of Coventry North East includes the Stoke, Walsgrave-on-Sowe, Wyken, Longford, and Foleshill areas of the cathedral city.
Constituency profile
In the seat is a wide demographic mix, across it is scattered an above UK average level of social housing and unemployment claimants however income is close to the UK average. The constituency has a large ethnic minority population, mainly Sikhs and Muslims and one ward, Foleshill, has a majority ethnic minority population.
History
Since its 1974 creation the area has been a Labour Party stronghold with the Conservative Party finishing second. The Liberal Democrats including their two predecessor parties amassed their largest shares of the vote in 1983 and in 2010 on 16.6% of the vote. In 2010 between 2% and 5% of the vote were a British National Party, Socialist and UKIP candidates completing the choice of seven was a Christian party's candidate who attracted the least votes.