SOUTHAMPTON TEST (UK PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCY)

'Southampton Test' is a borough constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

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History

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

Elections

See also

History

The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, when the previous two-member Southampton constituency was abolished.

Boundaries

The seat covers the western part of the City of Southampton, in southern England and is named after the River Test, one of the city's two rivers. It covers the leafy northern suburbs and the western port areas as well as the council housing estates of the western fringes. It is seen as the marginally more affluent of the two constituencies in the city, and has had more Tory tradition than its neighbour Southampton Itchen — named after the other major river).
Southampton Test covers the city wards of (with their associated neighbourhoods):

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★ Bassett (Bassett, Bassett Green, Lordswood)

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★ Bevois (Northam, part of St. Marys)

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★ Coxford (Lord's Hill, Aldermoor)

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★ Freemantle (Freemantle and part of Shirley)

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★ Millbrook (Millbrook)

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★ Portswood (Portswood, Highfield (including the University), St. Denys)

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★ Redbridge (Redbridge, Maybush)

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★ Shirley (part of Shirley, Upper Shirley)

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★ Swaythling (Swaythling)
The constituency is bounded to the east by Southampton Itchen (Labour), to the north by Romsey (Liberal Democrat) and in to the west by New Forest East (Conservative).

Members of Parliament

The seat is represented currently by the Labour Party MP Alan Whitehead.

Election		Member	Party
1950		''constituency created''
	1950	Dr Horace King	Labour
	1955	John Howard	Conservative
	1964	John Fletcher-Cooke	Conservative
	1966	Bob Mitchell	Labour
	1970	Sir James Hill	Conservative
	Oct. 1974	Bryan Gould	Labour
	1979	Sir James Hill	Conservative
	1997	Alan Whitehead	Labour

Elections

See also

★ List of Parliamentary constituencies in Hampshire