Birmingham, Ladywood (UK Parliament constituency)

Birmingham, Ladywood
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Birmingham, Ladywood in Birmingham.
Location of Birmingham within England.
County	West Midlands
Population	126,693 (2011 census)
Electorate	74,008 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1918
Member of parliament	Shabana Mahmood (Labour)
Number of members	One
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	West Midlands

Birmingham, Ladywood is a constituency of part of the city of Birmingham, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Shabana Mahmood of the Labour Party.

Clare Short, elected as a Labour MP from the 1983 general election onwards, resigned the Labour whip on 20 October 2006 and wished it to be known that she would continue to sit in the Commons as an Independent Labour MP and a true "Social Democrat".

Birmingham Ladywood is an area of Birmingham city centre along with the areas of Aston, Newtown, Lozells, Soho, Edgbaston and Nechells. The area is one of the most multicultural in Birmingham and Britain. In the recession of 2008–09 it was the first place in Britain where the claimant count rate of unemployment exceeded 10%, breaching that level in January 2009. In July 2008 Ladywood had the highest unemployment rate in the whole of the West Midlands (by the international standardised measure, which is usually higher than the claimant count) at just over 18%, compared with neighbouring Birmingham seats Perry Barr (8.1%), Sparkbrook and Small Heath (13.9%), and Yardley (7%). For the year ending September 2014 the unemployment rate was 12.4%, although the employment rate had increased only slightly, from 46.1% to 46.6% (compared with 69.7% for the West Midlands as a whole).

The average house price in Ladywood is just under £155,000 making it much lower than the national average of just over £288,000.

2010-present: The City of Birmingham wards of Aston, Ladywood, Nechells, and Soho (although the official description of the constituency remained the same, the boundaries were redrawn).

1997-2010: The City of Birmingham wards of Aston, Ladywood, Nechells, and Soho.

1983-1997: The City of Birmingham wards of Ladywood, Sandwell, and Soho.

1974-1983: The County Borough of Birmingham wards of All Saints', Ladywood, Rotton Park, and Soho.