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Birmingham Ladywood — UK General Election Results

Compiled by EveryElectionResult.com's data team · Last updated 2026-08-30

Birmingham Ladywood was won by Labour at the 2024 general election, with a majority of 3,421 votes over Independent. This page covers every general election in Birmingham Ladywood from 1918 to 2024.

Full Election History, 1918–2024

Election Elected Votes Vote Share Runner-up Majority Turnout
1918 Arthur Neville Chamberlain (Unionist) 9,405 69.5% John William Kneeshaw (Labour) 6,833 (50.5 pts) 40.6%
1922 Arthur Neville Chamberlain (Unionist) 13,032 55.2% Robert Dunstan (Labour) 2,443 (10.3 pts) 70.5%
1923 Arthur Neville Chamberlain (Unionist) 12,884 53.2% Robert Dunstan (Labour) 1,554 (6.4 pts) 72.0%
1924 Arthur Neville Chamberlain (Unionist) 13,374 49.2% Oswald Ernald Mosley (Labour) 77 (0.3 pts) 80.5%
1929 Wilfrid Whiteley (Labour) 16,447 50.0% Geoffrey William Lloyd (Unionist) 11 (0.0 pts) 77.2%
1931 Geoffrey William Lloyd (Conservative) 23,057 71.8% Wilfrid Whiteley (Labour) 14,000 (43.6 pts) 78.1%
1935 Geoffrey William Lloyd (Conservative) 18,565 71.7% George Hubert Humphreys (Labour) 11,254 (43.5 pts) 66.0%
1945 Victor Francis Yates (Labour) 13,503 55.9% Geoffrey William Lloyd (Conservative) 2,846 (11.8 pts) 69.9%
1950 Victor Francis Yates (Labour) 25,603 61.4% Frederic Mackarness Bennett (Conservative) 9,532 (22.9 pts) 80.4%
1951 Victor Francis Yates (Labour) 24,088 59.6% Leslie George Seymour (Conservative) 7,757 (19.2 pts) 77.2%
1955 Victor Francis Yates (Labour) 18,476 65.7% Peter W Hodgens (Conservative) 8,811 (31.3 pts) 60.0%
1959 Victor Francis Yates (Labour) 14,717 63.7% Thomas G John (Conservative) 6,324 (27.4 pts) 59.1%
1964 Victor Francis Yates (Labour) 10,098 63.2% Thomas G John (Conservative) 4,219 (26.4 pts) 53.7%
1966 Victor Yates (Labour) 8,895 58.9% Wallace Lawler (Liberal) 5,315 (35.2 pts) 59.7%
1970 Doris Fisher (Labour) 5,067 43.4% Wallace Lawler (Liberal) 980 (8.4 pts) 62.3%
Feb 1974 Alastair Walden (Labour) 15,126 58.6% Richard Lawn (Conservative) 8,962 (34.7 pts) 64.2%
Oct 1974 Alastair Walden (Labour) 14,818 64.5% Richard Lawn (Conservative) 9,739 (42.4 pts) 56.9%
1979 John Sever (Labour) 13,450 63.5% Anthony Frank Newhouse (Conservative) 7,759 (36.6 pts) 62.3%
1983 Clare Short (Labour) 19,278 51.0% P Le Hunte (Conservative) 9,030 (23.9 pts) 62.6%
1987 Clare Short (Labour) 21,971 57.7% Simon Lee (Conservative) 10,028 (26.3 pts) 64.8%
1992 Clare Short (Labour) 24,887 66.3% Barbara Ashford (Conservative) 15,283 (40.7 pts) 65.9%
1997 Clare Short (Labour) 28,134 74.1% Shailesh Vara (Conservative) 23,082 (60.8 pts) 54.2%
2001 Clare Short (Labour) 21,694 68.9% Benjamin Prentice (Conservative) 18,143 (57.6 pts) 44.3%
2005 Clare Short (Labour) 17,262 51.9% Ayoub Khan (Liberal Democrat) 6,801 (20.5 pts) 46.8%
2010 Shabana Mahmood (Labour) 19,950 55.7% Ayoub Khan (Liberal Democrat) 10,105 (28.2 pts) 49.2%
2015 Shabana Mahmood (Labour) 26,444 73.6% Isabel Sigmac (Conservative) 21,868 (60.9 pts) 53.1%
2017 Shabana Mahmood (Labour) 34,166 82.7% Andrew Browning (Conservative) 28,714 (69.5 pts) 59.2%
2019 Shabana Mahmood (Labour) 33,355 79.2% Mary Noone (Conservative) 28,582 (67.9 pts) 56.4%
2024 Shabana Mahmood (Labour) 15,558 42.5% Akhmed Yakoob (Independent) 3,421 (9.3 pts) 43.9%

Full Result Breakdown by Election

1918

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Arthur Neville Chamberlain Unionist 9,40569.5% Yes
John William Kneeshaw Labour 2,57219.0% No
Margery Irene Corbett Ashby Liberal 1,55211.5% No

1922

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Arthur Neville Chamberlain Unionist 13,03255.2% Yes
Robert Dunstan Labour 10,58944.8% No

1923

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Arthur Neville Chamberlain Unionist 12,88453.2% Yes
Robert Dunstan Labour 11,33046.8% No

1924

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Arthur Neville Chamberlain Unionist 13,37449.2% Yes
Oswald Ernald Mosley Labour 13,29748.9% No
Alfred William Bowkett Liberal 5392.0% No

1929

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Wilfrid Whiteley Labour 16,44750.0% Yes
Geoffrey William Lloyd Unionist 16,43650.0% No

1931

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Geoffrey William Lloyd Conservative 23,05771.8% Yes
Wilfrid Whiteley Labour 9,05728.2% No

1935

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Geoffrey William Lloyd Conservative 18,56571.7% Yes
George Hubert Humphreys Labour 7,31128.3% No

1945

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Victor Francis Yates Labour 13,50355.9% Yes
Geoffrey William Lloyd Conservative 10,65744.1% No

1950

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Victor Francis Yates Labour 25,60361.4% Yes
Frederic Mackarness Bennett Conservative 16,07138.6% No

1951

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Victor Francis Yates Labour 24,08859.6% Yes
Leslie George Seymour Conservative 16,33140.4% No

1955

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Victor Francis Yates Labour 18,47665.7% Yes
Peter W Hodgens Conservative 9,66534.3% No

1959

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Victor Francis Yates Labour 14,71763.7% Yes
Thomas G John Conservative 8,39336.3% No

1964

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Victor Francis Yates Labour 10,09863.2% Yes
Thomas G John Conservative 5,87936.8% No

1966

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Victor Yates Labour 8,89558.9% Yes
Wallace Lawler Liberal 3,58023.7% No
Thomas George John Conservative 2,62117.4% No

1970

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Doris Fisher Labour 5,06743.4% Yes
Wallace Lawler Liberal 4,08735.0% No
Charles Lawrence Wade Conservative 2,52321.6% No

Feb 1974

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Alastair Walden Labour 15,12658.6% Yes
Richard Lawn Conservative 6,16423.9% No
Kenneth Hardeman Liberal 3,75314.5% No
John Davis National Front 7512.9% No

Oct 1974

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Alastair Walden Labour 14,81864.5% Yes
Richard Lawn Conservative 5,07922.1% No
Kenneth Hardeman Liberal 3,08613.4% No

1979

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
John Sever Labour 13,45063.5% Yes
Anthony Frank Newhouse Conservative 5,69126.9% No
Kenneth Hardeman Liberal 2,0309.6% No

1983

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Clare Short Labour 19,27851.0% Yes
P Le Hunte Conservative 10,24827.1% No
Kenneth Hardeman Liberal 7,75820.5% No
Baba Bakhtaura Stop Deportation of Black People 3550.9% No
Rodney Wilberforce Atkinson Workers Revolutionary 1980.5% No

1987

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Clare Short Labour 21,97157.7% Yes
Simon Lee Conservative 11,94331.3% No
Gurdial Singh Sangha Social Democratic Party 3,5329.3% No
Joyce Millington Green 6501.7% No

1992

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Clare Short Labour 24,88766.3% Yes
Barbara Ashford Conservative 9,60425.6% No
Brian Worth Liberal Democrat 3,0688.2% No

1997

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Clare Short Labour 28,13474.1% Yes
Shailesh Vara Conservative 5,05213.3% No
Sardul Marwa Liberal Democrat 3,0208.0% No
Ruth Gurney Referendum Party 1,0862.9% No
Andrew Carmichael National Democrats 6851.8% No

2001

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Clare Short Labour 21,69468.9% Yes
Benjamin Prentice Conservative 3,55111.3% No
Mahmood Chaudhry Liberal Democrat 2,5868.2% No
Allah Ditta People's Justice 2,1126.7% No
Surinder Virdee Socialist Labour 4431.4% No
Mahmood Hussain Muslim Party 4321.4% No
James Caffery ProLife Alliance 3921.2% No
Dr Anneliese Nattrass UKIP 2830.9% No

2005

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Clare Short Labour 17,26251.9% Yes
Ayoub Khan Liberal Democrat 10,46131.5% No
Philippa Stroud Conservative 3,51510.6% No
Lyn Nazemi-Afshar UKIP 2,0086.0% No

2010

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Shabana Mahmood Labour 19,95055.7% Yes
Ayoub Khan Liberal Democrat 9,84527.5% No
Nusrat Ghani Conservative 4,27711.9% No
Christopher Booth UKIP 9022.5% No
Peter Beck Green 8592.4% No

2015

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Shabana Mahmood Labour 26,44473.6% Yes
Isabel Sigmac Conservative 4,57612.7% No
Clair Braund UKIP 1,8055.0% No
Margaret Okole Green 1,5014.2% No
Shazad Iqbal Liberal Democrat 1,3743.8% No
Timothy Burton Liberty GB 2160.6% No

2017

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Shabana Mahmood Labour 34,16682.7% Yes
Andrew Browning Conservative 5,45213.2% No
Lee Dargue Liberal Democrat 1,1562.8% No
Kefentse Dennis Green 5331.3% No

2019

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Shabana Mahmood Labour 33,35579.2% Yes
Mary Noone Conservative 4,77311.3% No
Lee Dargue Liberal Democrat 2,2285.3% No
Alex Nettle Green 9312.2% No
Andrew Garcarz Brexit Party 8312.0% No

2024

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Shabana Mahmood Labour 15,55842.5% Yes
Akhmed Yakoob Independent 12,13733.2% No
Zoe Challenor Green 3,4789.5% No
Shaz Muzammil Conservative 2,2186.1% No
Lee Dargue Liberal Democrat 1,7114.7% No
Irene Yoong-Henery Reform UK 1,4774.0% No

Margin Over Time

Winning margin (percentage points) at each election, coloured by the winning party.

1918: Unionist margin 50.5 pts 1922: Unionist margin 10.3 pts 1923: Unionist margin 6.4 pts 1924: Unionist margin 0.3 pts 1929: Labour margin 0.0 pts 1931: Conservative margin 43.6 pts 1935: Conservative margin 43.5 pts 1945: Labour margin 11.8 pts 1950: Labour margin 22.9 pts 1951: Labour margin 19.2 pts 1955: Labour margin 31.3 pts 1959: Labour margin 27.4 pts 1964: Labour margin 26.4 pts 1966: Labour margin 35.2 pts 1970: Labour margin 8.4 pts Feb 1974: Labour margin 34.7 pts Oct 1974: Labour margin 42.4 pts 1979: Labour margin 36.6 pts 1983: Labour margin 23.9 pts 1987: Labour margin 26.3 pts 1992: Labour margin 40.7 pts 1997: Labour margin 60.8 pts 2001: Labour margin 57.6 pts 2005: Labour margin 20.5 pts 2010: Labour margin 28.2 pts 2015: Labour margin 60.9 pts 2017: Labour margin 69.5 pts 2019: Labour margin 67.9 pts 2024: Labour margin 9.3 pts 1918 1922 1923 1924 1929 1931 1935 1945 1950 1951 1955 1959 1964 1966 1970 Feb 1974 Oct 1974 1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019 2024

Trend

Birmingham Ladywood has been contested at 29 general elections on record since 1918. Parties that have won a seat here over that span: Unionist, Labour, Conservative.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who won Birmingham Ladywood in the 2024 general election?

Labour won Birmingham Ladywood in 2024 with 15,558 votes (42.5%), a majority of 3,421 votes over Independent in second place.

Which parties have won Birmingham Ladywood since 1918?

Since 1918, Birmingham Ladywood has been won by: Conservative, Labour, Unionist.

What was the closest result in Birmingham Ladywood?

The closest result on record for Birmingham Ladywood was 1929, when Labour beat Unionist by just 11 votes (0.0 percentage points).

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