Sutton Coldfield is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Parliament of the United Kingdom

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. It elects one Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Boundaries

The constituency covers the northern part of the City of Birmingham

Birmingham

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 district in the West Midlands

West Midlands (county)

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. It corresponds to the former borough of Sutton Coldfield

Sutton Coldfield

Sutton Coldfield is a suburb of Birmingham, in the West Midlands of England. Sutton is located about from central Birmingham but has borders with Erdington and Kingstanding. Sutton is in the northeast of Birmingham, with a population of 105,000 recorded in the 2001 census...

. It is the only constituency within the Birmingham City Council area not have the name Birmingham in its title.

History

Sutton Coldfield is one of the safest seats in the country for the Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

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, with them having held it since its creation in 1945. The current MP is Andrew Mitchell

Andrew Mitchell

The Right Honourable Andrew John Bower Mitchell MP is a British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament for Sutton Coldfield...

, former MP for Gedling

Gedling (UK Parliament constituency)

-Electiobs in the 2000s:-Elections in the 1990s:-See also:*List of Parliamentary constituencies in Nottinghamshire...

 in Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire

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, who replaced the former Cabinet minister Sir Norman Fowler

Norman Fowler

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 in 2001.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Notes
	1945 United Kingdom general election, 1945 The United Kingdom general election of 1945 was a general election held on 5 July 1945, with polls in some constituencies delayed until 12 July and in Nelson and Colne until 19 July, due to local wakes weeks. The results were counted and declared on 26 July, due in part to the time it took to...	Sir John Mellor	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
	1955 United Kingdom general election, 1955 The 1955 United Kingdom general election was held on 26 May 1955, four years after the previous general election. It resulted in a substantially increased majority of 60 for the Conservative government under new leader and prime minister Sir Anthony Eden against Labour Party, now in their 20th year...	Rt Hon Geoffrey Lloyd		Minister of Fuel and Power 31 October 1951–20 December 1955 Minister of Education 17 September 1957–14 October 1959 Later Baron Geoffrey-Lloyd of Broomfield
	Feb 1974 United Kingdom general election, February 1974 The United Kingdom's general election of February 1974 was held on the 28th of that month. It was the first of two United Kingdom general elections held that year, and the first election since the Second World War not to produce an overall majority in the House of Commons for the winning party,...	Rt Hon Sir Norman Fowler Norman Fowler Norman Fowler, Baron Fowler, PC is a British Conservative politician who was from 1981 to 1990 a member of Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet.-Early life:...		Minister of Transport 11 May 1979–5 January 1981 Secretary of State for Transport 5 January 1981–14 September 1981 Secretary of State for Social Services 14 September 1981–13 June 1987 Secretary of State for Employment 13 June 1987–3 January 1990 Chairman of the Conservative Party Chairman of the Conservative Party In the United Kingdom, the Chairman of the Conservative Party is responsible for running the party machine, overseeing Conservative Central Office. When the Conservatives are in power, the Chairman is usually a member of the Cabinet being given a sinecure position such as Minister without Portfolio...  11 April 1992–15 July 1994 Later Baron Fowler of Sutton Coldfield
	2001 United Kingdom general election, 2001 The United Kingdom general election, 2001 was held on Thursday 7 June 2001 to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons. It was dubbed "the quiet landslide" by the media, as the Labour Party was re-elected with another landslide result and only suffered a net loss of 6 seats...	Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell Andrew Mitchell The Right Honourable Andrew John Bower Mitchell MP is a British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament for Sutton Coldfield...		Secretary of State for International Development Secretary of State for International Development In the United Kingdom, the Secretary of State for International Development is a Cabinet minister responsible for the Department for International Development and for promoting development overseas, particularly in the third world...  from 12 May 2010

Elections in the 2010s

Elections in the 2000s

Elections in the 1990s

External links

• Birmingham city council constituency page