County Staffordshire Major settlements Stoke-on-Trent Member of parliament Robert Flello Number of members 1 Created from Stoke-on-Trent, Stoke | Electorate 68,624 (December 2010) European Parliament constituency West Midlands Major settlement Stoke-on-Trent Replaced by Stoke-on-Trent, Stoke | |
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Stoke-on-Trent South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Robert Flello, a member of the Labour Party.
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Political history
The constituency has always been a safe Labour seat since its creation in 1950, supported with majorities narrowly above a marginal level, even during strong years for the Conservative Party, such as 1983 and 2010, who form the main opposition locally.
Prominent members
Jack Ashley (later Lord Ashley), became deaf as a result of an operation, but his disability campaigns led to major enactments and public sector changes to improve ordinary life for deaf people, including the inclusion of sign language in television programmes and campaigns to help other disabled people.
Boundaries
1950-1955: The County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent wards numbers 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, and 26.
1955-1983: The County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent wards numbers 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24.
1983-2010: The City of Stoke-on-Trent wards of Blurton, Fenton Green, Great Fenton, Longton South, Meir Park, Trentham Park, and Weston.
2010-present: The City of Stoke-on-Trent wards of Blurton, Fenton, Longton North, Longton South, Meir Park and Sandon, Trentham and Hanford, and Weston and Meir North.
Constituency profile
A safe Labour seat, like the other Stoke-on-Trent constituencies, it includes the city's most middle-class electoral wards of Trentham and Meir that contrast with much of the neighbouring, predominantly lower income, population of the other wards.
Workless claimants, registered jobseekers, were in November 2012 equal to the regional average of 4.7% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian.