Birmingham Hall Green
2010 Results:
Conservative: 7320 (15.02%)
Labour: 16039 (32.92%)
Liberal Democrat: 11988 (24.6%)
UKIP: 950 (1.95%)
Independent: 190 (0.39%)
Respect: 12240 (25.12%)
Majority: 3799 (7.8%)
Notional 2005 Results:
Labour: 16799 (38%)
Liberal Democrat: 12608 (28.5%)
Conservative: 7892 (17.8%)
Other: 6931 (15.7%)
Majority: 4191 (9.5%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 10590 (30.7%)
Labour: 16304 (47.2%)
Liberal Democrat: 6682 (19.3%)
UKIP: 960 (2.8%)
Majority: 5714 (16.5%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 11401 (34.5%)
Labour: 18049 (54.6%)
Liberal Democrat: 2926 (8.8%)
UKIP: 708 (2.1%)
Majority: 6648 (20.1%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 13952 (33.4%)
Labour: 22372 (53.5%)
Liberal Democrat: 4034 (9.6%)
Referendum: 1461 (3.5%)
Majority: 8420 (20.1%)
Boundary changes:
Profile:
Current MP: Roger Godsiff (Labour) born 1946, London. Educated at Catford Comprehensive School. Former bank clerk and trade union official. Lewisham councillor 1971-1990. Contested Birmingham Yardley 1983. First elected as MP for Birmingham Small Heath 1992. MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath since 1997.
Jo Barker (Conservative) Born 1968, Banbury. Educated at Liverpool University. Managing Director of family property business.Roger Godsiff (Labour) born 1946, London. Educated at Catford Comprehensive School. Former bank clerk and trade union official. Lewisham councillor 1971-1990. Contested Birmingham Yardley 1983. First elected as MP for Birmingham Small Heath 1992. MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath since 1997.
Jerry Evans (Liberal Democrat) Self employed archaelogical consultant. Birmingham councillor. 
Alan Blumenthal (UKIP)
Salma Yaqoob (Respect) Born 1971, Bradford. Birmingham councillor. Contested Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath 2005.Andrew Gardner (Independent)2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 108908
Male: 49.2%
Female: 50.8%
Under 18: 29.9%
Over 60: 15.7%
Born outside UK: 28.3%
White: 47.2%
Black: 4.9%
Asian: 43.5%
Mixed: 3%
Other: 1.4%
Christian: 37.4%
Hindu: 4.2%
Muslim: 35.7%
Sikh: 3.9%
Full time students: 6.2%
Graduates 16-74: 22%
No Qualifications 16-74: 36.8%
Owner-Occupied: 62.1%
Social Housing: 21.6% (Council: 10.8%, Housing Ass.: 10.8%)
Privately Rented: 12.9%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 21.1%
LD gain, maj – 500
The Liberals were never going to win here (my home seat) as I posted 2 or 3 years ago. Outsiders havn’t understood the local context, and even the notionals overestimated LibDem support. However I predicted Salma Yacoub to get 28% and she fell 3% short. Even all those postal/proxy votes from Mirpur couldn’t account for this. Looks like ordinary Moslem voters went back to Labour in a substantial way – look how well Muhammed Azim did in the locals in Sparkbrook ward against Salma.
Salma Yaqoob of Respect is marginalised as ‘Others’ but came second to the outgoing Labour MP. How disrespectful!
I wonder if anyone has a full breakdown of how each ward voted? I being told Labour beat LibDems in all four wards while Salma won Sparkbrook. It will be interesting to see where each party did well and how well Respect did in Moseley and Kings Health following Lynne Jones backing of Salma.
Also, I was surprised to see Hall Green had the highest turnout of all the Birmingham seats.
You can get full local results from the Birmingham City Council website. Ward breakdowns are not available for general elections and there is a lot of split voting in Birmingham (see posts on Northfield,Edgbaston). Ward results for locals were
Springfield
Labour 35%
LibDem 28% (Jerry Evans’ ward)
Respect 25%
Sparkbrook
Respect 45%
Labour 34%
LibDem/Tory 9% each
Moseley
LibDem
I doubt Labour beat the LDs in Hall green ward. Obviously the LDs won it in the locals as always but as you say there is a lot of split voting so we can neer be sure
I being told by local Labour members Labour did beat the LibDems in all four wards for the general elections. Respect only came top in Sparkbook.
Maybe with the next set of boundary changes Hall Green can be again be combined with wards it has more in common with such as Billesley, Brandwood, Selly Oak, etc. You could have a Birmingham SE constituency for example.
The majority is 7.80% not 8.32%. The latter is Labour’s margin of the third placed Liberal Democrats.
David you assured me it wasn’t possible for the Lib Dems to come third here
I thought the Conservatives would have done better in Birmingham Hall Green. It’s a shame to see them get just 17% is a seat they heald for 47 years.
Adam, it was the boundary changes. In a nutshell.
Votedave is absolutely right. This seat now only includes one ward from the old Hall Green constituency, which is the Hall Green ward itself. The other two wards – Billesley and Brandwood – are both now in the Selly Oak constituency.
It would have been more accurate to call this seat Birmingham Sparkbrook because I think more of the area which used to be in that seat before it was abolished in 1997 is in this seat than was in the previous Hall Green constituency. Or alternatively it could have been named Birmingham South East.