County Nottinghamshire Created 1983 Created from Nottingham Number of members 1 | Electorate 69,154 (December 2010) Type of constituency Borough constituency Member of parliament Lilian Greenwood | |
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Created from Nottingham East and Nottingham West Replaced by Nottingham East, Nottingham West, Rushcliffe | ||
Nottingham South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Lilian Greenwood, a member of the Labour Party.
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Constituency profile
The seat is the most economically diverse of the three Nottingham constituencies covering higher income and lower income output areas (sub-divisions of wards). This has led to it becoming the most marginal of the seats, changing hands on several occasions over the past few decades and has below-national levels of unemployment claimants, for example at the end of 2010 male claimants were less than half as many as in Nottingham North.
The constituency is also the most politically diverse of the three city seats which together form Nottingham City Council. In the 2007 elections for Nottingham City Council, the constituency elected 9 of the 42 Labour councillors, 6 of the 7 Conservatives and 5 of the 6 Liberal Democrats.
Boundaries
1885-1918: The Municipal Borough of Nottingham wards of Castle, Market, Meadow, St Mary Bridge, and Trent.
1918-1955: The County Borough of Nottingham wards of Bridge, Castle, Meadows, and Trent.
1955-1974: The County Borough of Nottingham wards of Bridge, Clifton, Lenton, and Trent, and the Urban District of West Bridgford.
1983-2010: The City of Nottingham wards of Abbey, Bridge, Clifton East, Clifton West, Lenton, Park, Robin Hood, Wilford, and Wollaton.
2010-present: The City of Nottingham wards of Bridge, Clifton North, Clifton South, Dunkirk and Lenton, Leen Valley, Radford and Park, Wollaton East and Lenton Abbey, and Wollaton West.
Roughly, the constituency covers the southern part of the City of Nottingham in Nottinghamshire.
Nottingham South contains at least parts of both of the city's universities. The University of Nottingham's University Park Campus and Jubilee Campus are both in the constituency, as is the Clifton Campus of Nottingham Trent University.
The constituency borders several other seats in Nottingham city and the surrounding area. It is surrounded to the South and East by Rushcliffe constituency, which is represented by Kenneth Clarke. To the West, it borders Broxtowe and both Nottingham North and Nottingham East to the North.
History
Since as early as 1295, Nottingham was represented by one large constituency which elected two members of parliament to the House of Commons. Under a major Act of 1885 three single-member subdivisions were created: Nottingham East, Nottingham West and Nottingham South.
Nottingham South was abolished in the election of February 1974 but was re-formed with altered boundaries nine years later in 1983 from parts of Nottingham East and Nottingham West.
Nottingham South is the most diverse of the three constituencies in terms of economic demographics. It includes areas of higher incomes than average in the form of Wollaton and The Park Estate and areas of relative poverty, both suburban and inner city. The council estate built next to and within the bounds of the village/parish of Clifton was once the largest in Europe.
Results to date excluding under the Blair Ministry when it was quite firmly Labour have produced the most marginal majorities of Nottingham City's three constituencies. The Conservative Martin Brandon-Bravo held the seat from 1983–92 with small majorities. Since 1992, Nottingham South has been held by Labour MPs; Alan Simpson until retiring from the House of Commons in 2010 and Lilian Greenwood from 2010.
Communities or localities in Nottingham South include:
Members of Parliament
Since 2010 the seat is represented by Lilian Greenwood of the Labour Party, who succeeded Labour's Alan Simpson on his retirement. Simpson had held the seat since 1992, when he defeated the Conservative Martin Brandon-Bravo.