Nottingham South

Nottingham South
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Nottingham South in Nottinghamshire.
Location of Nottinghamshire within England.
County	Nottinghamshire
Electorate	69,154 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1983
Member of parliament	Lillian Greenwood (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Nottingham East and Nottingham West
1885–1974 (1974)
Number of members	One
Type of constituency	Borough constituency
Replaced by	Nottingham East, Nottingham West, Rushcliffe
Created from	Nottingham
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	East Midlands

Nottingham South is a constituency.

The seat was represented by Lilian Greenwood in the last parliament, who succeeded Labour's Alan Simpson on his retirement. Simpson had held the seat since 1992, when he unseated the Conservative Martin Brandon-Bravo.

The seat is the most economically diverse of the three Nottingham constituencies covering higher income and lower income output areas (sub-divisions of wards). This has led to it becoming the most marginal of the seats, changing hands on several occasions over the past few decades and has below-national levels of unemployment claimants, for example at the end of 2010 male claimants were less than half as many as in Nottingham North.

The constituency is also the most politically diverse of the three city seats which together form Nottingham City Council. In the 2007 elections for Nottingham City Council, the constituency elected 9 of the 42 Labour councillors, 6 of the 7 Conservatives and 5 of the 6 Liberal Democrats.

Nottingham South contains at least parts of both of the city's universities. The University of Nottingham's University Park Campus and Jubilee Campus are both in the constituency, as is the Clifton Campus of Nottingham Trent University.

The constituency borders several other seats in Nottingham city and the surrounding area. It is surrounded to the South and East by Rushcliffe constituency, which is represented by Kenneth Clarke. To the West, it borders Broxtowe and both Nottingham North and Nottingham East to the North.

Roughly, the constituency covers the southern part of the City of Nottingham in Nottinghamshire.