Birmingham Northfield (UK Parliament constituency)

Birmingham, Northfield
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Birmingham, Northfield in Birmingham.
Location of Birmingham within England.
County	West Midlands
Population	101,422 (2011 census)
Electorate	72,190 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1950
Member of parliament	Richard Burden (Labour)
Number of members	One
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	West Midlands

Coordinates: 52°24′N 1°59′W / 52.40°N 1.98°W / 52.40; -1.98

Birmingham, Northfield is a constituency of part of the city of Birmingham represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1992 by Richard Burden of the Labour Party.

Among the areas largest features are the closed MG Rover Group factory that long formed a major employer in the constituency and officially closed in the run up to the 2005 general election, a large hospital and the North Worcestershire Golf Course. The Labour MP Richard Burden was nonetheless returned, albeit with a majority reduced by 5.6%. He was re-elected, with a majority reduced by 14.1%, in 2010. Shortly after the 2010 election, Liberal Democrat candidate Mike Dixon was jailed for clubbing a family cat to death with a walking stick.

Since creation in 1950, Labour Party MPs have served the ward with the exception of the period from 1979 to 1992 while the Conservative Party were in government, with a one-year gap caused by a Labour win in a by-election, in 1982. From 1979 to 1982 the MP was a member of the influential and large Cadbury family, Jocelyn Cadbury.