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| Leicester South Borough constituency |
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| Leicester South shown within Leicester, and Leicester shown within England | |
| Created: | 1918, 1974 |
| MP: | Peter Soulsby |
| Party: | Labour |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Leicestershire |
| EP constituency: | East Midlands |
Leicester South is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP), by the first past the post voting system.
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Boundaries
The seat is centred on the southern part of Leicester covering leafy suburbs such as Stoneygate and Knighton, as well as inner city areas with a strong Asian community and deprived outer estates such as Saffron and Eyres Monsell. The constituency encompasses the council wards of Spinney Hills, Stoneygate, Knighton, Freemen, Aylestone, Eyres Monsell and virtually all of Castle.
History
The constituency was first created in 1918, abolished in 1950, and reconstituted in 1974.
Leicester South has over the past few decades seen demographic changes which have altered the balance of the constituency. The seat saw close contests between the Conservatives and Labour in the 1980s, with Labour MP Jim Marshall losing the seat by just 7 votes to the Conservatives in the 1983 general election but regaining it in 1987. In subsequent elections the majority grew to the point where it was considered substantially safe.
Marshall died in 2004 and the resulting by-election was fiercely contested. Along with a by-election in Birmingham Hodge Hill held on the same day, the seat saw a fierce challenge by the Liberal Democrats, hoping to build on their previous by-election gain at Brent East, as well as competition for the anti-war vote from RESPECT The Unity Coalition. The seat was won by the Liberal Democrats' Parmjit Singh Gill with a majority of 1,654.
Sir Peter Soulsby, who had contested the seat for Labour at the byelection, won the seat at the 2005 election.
Members of Parliament
MPs 1918-1950
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1918 | Thomas Blane | Conservative | |
| 1922 | William George Waterhouse Reynolds | Conservative | |
| 1923 | Ronald Wilberforce Allen | Liberal | |
| 1924 | Charles Waterhouse | Conservative | |
| 1945 | Herbert Bowden | Labour | |
| 1950 | constituency abolished | ||
MPs 1974-present
Election results
| General Election 2005: Leicester South | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Sir Peter Soulsby | 16,688 | 39.3 | -15.2 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Parmjit Singh Gill | 12,971 | 30.6 | +13.4 | |
| Conservative | Martin McElwee | 7,549 | 17.8 | −5.3 | |
| Respect | Yvonne Ridley | 2,720 | 6.4 | N/A | |
| Green | Matthew Follett | 1,379 | 3.3 | +0.4 | |
| Veritas | Ken Roseblade | 573 | 1.4 | N/A | |
| Socialist Labour | Dave Roberts | 315 | 0.7 | −0.9 | |
| Independent | Paul Lord | 216 | 0.5 | N/A | |
| Majority | 3,717 | 8.8 | |||
| Turnout | 42,411 | 58.7 | +0.7 | ||
| Labour gain from Liberal Democrat | Swing | ||||
| By-election 2004: Leicester South | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Parmjit Singh Gill | 10274 | 34.9 | +17.7 | |
| Labour | Sir Peter Soulsby | 8620 | 29.3 | -25.2 | |
| Conservative | Chris Heaton-Harris | 5796 | 19.7 | -3.4 | |
| Respect | Yvonne Ridley | 3724 | 12.7 | +12.7 | |
| Socialist Labour | Dave Roberts | 263 | 0.9 | -0.7 | |
| Monster Raving Loony | R. U. Seerius | 225 | 0.8 | +0.8 | |
| Independent - Save Our Schools | Pat Kennedy | 204 | 0.7 | +0.7 | |
| Independent | Paul Lord | 186 | 0.6 | +0.6 | |
| Independent (anti-EU) | Mark Edwin Benson | 55 | 0.2 | +0.2 | |
| Independent (yoga and meditation) | Jitendra Bardwaj | 36 | 0.1 | +0.1 | |
| Independent Conservative | Alan Gordon Barrett | 25 | 0.1 | +0.1 | |
| Majority | 1654 | 5.6 | |||
| Turnout | |||||
| Liberal Democrat gain from Labour | Swing | 21.5 | |||
| General Election 2001: Leicester South | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Jim Marshall | 22,958 | 54.5 | -3.5 | |
| Conservative | Richard Hoile | 9,715 | 23.1 | -0.7 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Parmjit Singh Gill | 7,243 | 17.2 | +3.4 | |
| Green | Margaret Layton | 1,217 | 2.9 | ||
| Socialist Labour | Arnie Gardner | 676 | 1.6 | ||
| UK Independence | Kirti Ladwa | 330 | 0.8 | ||
| Majority | 13,243 | 31.4 | |||
| Turnout | 42,139 | 58.0 | |||
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