Yardley constituency shown within Birmingham

Birmingham Yardley is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. , from ImageBirminghamHodgeHill. ... , from ImageBirminghamHodgeHill. ... The United Kingdom has now four bodies with members elected by constituencies: The House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom The Scottish Parliament The Welsh Assembly The Northern Ireland Assembly The House of Commons has over 600 constituencies representing the whole of the United Kingdom. ... The House of Commons is a component of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also includes the Sovereign and the House of Lords. ... The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty). ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... The first-past-the-post electoral system is a voting system for single-member districts, variously called first-past-the-post (FPTP or FPP), winner-take-all, plurality voting, or relative majority. ...

Boundaries

When the Yardley area committee district of Birmingham was created in 2004 its boundaries were those of the consituency. Yardley constituency shown within Birmingham Yardley is an area in east Birmingham, England. ... Many large British councils have a system of area committees, with responsibility for services in particular part of the area covered by the council. ... In Birmingham, England, each district is managed by a District Committee, made up of all the councillors for the wards in that district. ... This page is about the Government of Birmingham, England. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Member of Parliament

• John Hemming, Liberal Democrats (2005–present)
• Estelle Morris, Labour (2001–2005)

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John Hemming is leader of the Liberal Democrats on the city council of Birmingham. ... The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ... The Right Honourable Estelle Morris (born 1952) is a English politician, Labour Party member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley, and was briefly a member of the Cabinet. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ...

Election results

Birmingham Yardley, a previously safe Labour seat, swung for the first time in the constituency's history to another party, namely the Liberal Democrats, who gained their first seat in Birmingham. Many people consider the swing due to the strong anti-university top-up fees sentiment, but there was also a local crisis for the Labour party. Labour literature gave the impression that their candidate, Jayne Innes, was a local with a long history of local activism. It was discovered that she was actually a failed candidate from Wakefield who moved to Coventry to take what was meant to be a safe seat. Many people compared her unfavourably to John Hemming, active in the community for all his life. Top-up fees (not their official name) are a new way of charging tuition to English, Welsh and Northern Irish undergraduate and PGCE students who study at universities in England, Scotland or Northern Ireland. ... Activism, in a general sense, can be described as involvement in action to bring about change, be it social, political, environmental, or other change. ... For other uses of the word, see Wakefield (disambiguation). ... Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. ...

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Politics and history of the constituency