Bromsgrove (UK Parliament constituency)
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Bromsgrove is a constituency<ref group="n">A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)</ref> in Worcestershire, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Bradley Thomas of the Conservative Party.<ref group="n">As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.</ref>
Boundaries
1950–1974: The Urban Districts of Bromsgrove and Redditch, and the Rural District of Bromsgrove. The constituency was renamed Bromsgrove and Redditch in 1974, but the boundaries remained unchanged until 1983.
1983–present: The District of Bromsgrove.
The 2023 review of Westminster constituencies left the boundaries unchanged.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The constituency covers the same area as Bromsgrove District Council in north Worcestershire, with twenty civil parishes, although the town of Bromsgrove itself is unparished. It includes the villages of Alvechurch, Barnt Green, Belbroughton, Blackwell, Clent, Cofton Hackett, Hagley, Hollywood, Lickey, Marlbrook, Rubery, Tardebigge, and Wythall.
History
The borough of Bromsgrove returned two members (Thomas Rassall and Thomas Barneford) to the original Model Parliament in 1295. However, borough status appeared lost when no other member was sent to any subsequent parliament under that status.<ref>Treadway Russell Nash, History and Antiquities of the County of Worcester I (1781), introduction, xxxii.</ref>
Since its split from the neighbouring Redditch Constituency in 1983, it has returned a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP).
The MP from 1997 to 2010, Julie Kirkbride, announced on 28 May 2009 that she would be standing down as an MP at the next General Election in light of the expenses scandal.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Her resignation was confirmed in December 2009, after an attempt to withdraw it.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
The winner of the 2010 election, Sajid Javid (formerly the youngest Vice President of Chase Manhattan Bank and a Deutsche Bank board director) held ministerial roles in Treasury as Economic Secretary and Financial Secretary,as well as Cabinet posts as Culture Secretary, Business Secretary, Communities Secretary, Home Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer and most recently as Health Secretary. He stood down from Parliament at the 2024 dissolution having announced this intent in December 2022. His place was taken by fellow Conservative Bradley Thomas.
Members of Parliament
MPs 1950–1974
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| style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | 1950 | Michael Higgs | Conservative | |
| style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | 1955 | James Dance | Conservative | |
| style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | 1971 by-election | Terry Davis | Labour | |
| Feb 1974 | constituency abolished: see Bromsgrove & Redditch | |||
MPs since 1983
| Election | Member<ref name="hansard"/><ref name="rayment"/> | Party | Notes | |
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| style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | 1983 | Hal Miller | Conservative | |
| style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | 1992 | Roy Thomason | Conservative | |
| style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | 1997 | Julie Kirkbride | Conservative | Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (2003–2004) |
| style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | 2010 | Sajid Javid | Conservative | Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (2014–2015) Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (2015–2016) Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (2016–2018) Home Secretary (2018–2019) Chancellor of the Exchequer (2019–2020) Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (2021–2022) |
| style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | 2024 | Bradley Thomas | Conservative | |
Elections
Elections in the 2020s
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See also
Notes
References
External links
- nomis Constituency Profile for Bromsgrove — presenting data from the ONS annual population survey and other official statistics.
- Bromsgrove UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 1997 – April 2010) at MapIt UK
- Bromsgrove UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) at MapIt UK
- Bromsgrove UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) at MapIt UK
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