Coventry South (UK Parliament constituency)

Coventry South
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Coventry South in West Midlands.
Location of West Midlands within England.
County	West Midlands
Electorate	75,705 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1997
Member of parliament	Jim Cunningham (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Coventry South East, Coventry South West
1950–1974
Number of members	One
Type of constituency	Borough constituency
Replaced by	Coventry South East, Coventry South West
Created from	Coventry East and Coventry West
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	West Midlands

Coventry South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 1997 recreation by Jim Cunningham of the Labour Party.

Coventry city centre is in the north of the constituency, with its cathedral, expanses of concrete offices and the university, which leads to a significant student vote in the seat. The residential tower blocks in St Michael's ward lie amid one of the most deprived areas in the country but south of the city centre it is more mixed, with the more middle-class areas of Cheylesmore, Earlsdon and Whoberley, Cannon Park, Gibbet Hill (aka Wainbody) and Westwood Heath among areas with large numbers of professionals, comfortably self-employed and academics.

1997–present: The City of Coventry wards of Binley and Willenhall, Cheylesmore, Earlsdon, St Michael's, Wainbody, and Westwood.

1950-1974: The County Borough of Coventry wards of Cheylesmore, Earlsdon, Godiva, St Michael's, Westwood, and Whoberley.

From 1974 to 1997, the city centre was part of the now abolished Coventry South East constituency.

The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, abolished for the February 1974 general election and recreated for the 1997 general election by the merger of the former seats of Coventry South East and Coventry South West. Since 1964 the various forms of the seat, excluding the gap period, have elected the Labour candidate. The Conservative candidates, since a win in 1959, have consistently taken second place.