Nottingham South (UK Parliament constituency)

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	Lilian 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 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Lilian Greenwood, a member of the Labour Party.

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.

1885-1918: The Municipal Borough of Nottingham wards of Castle, Market, Meadow, St Mary Bridge, and Trent.

1918-1955: The County Borough of Nottingham wards of Bridge, Castle, Meadows, and Trent.

1955-1974: The County Borough of Nottingham wards of Bridge, Clifton, Lenton, and Trent, and the Urban District of West Bridgford.

1983-2010: The City of Nottingham wards of Abbey, Bridge, Clifton East, Clifton West, Lenton, Park, Robin Hood, Wilford, and Wollaton.

2010-present: The City of Nottingham wards of Bridge, Clifton North, Clifton South, Dunkirk and Lenton, Leen Valley, Radford and Park, Wollaton East and Lenton Abbey, and Wollaton West.

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

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.