sutton coldfield Constituency Details


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CONSTITUENCY OVERVIEW

CONTROLLING PARTYConservative
ELECTORATE75,172 voters
AREA22 sq. miles


Sutton Coldfield is a UK parliament constituency that is represented in the House of Commons by Andrew Mitchell of the Conservative party.

The Sutton Coldfield constituency has a total population of 94,690, of which 75,172 are eligible (18+) to vote (79.4%).

Sutton Coldfield ranks 393th in a list of the largest constituencies in the UK (geographical size), and 359th in a list of the largest constituencies by population size.

CONSTITUENCY MP

Andrew Mitchell

Andrew Mitchell

Andrew John Bower Mitchell (born 23 March 1956) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sutton Coldfield since 2001. He was the MP for Gedling from 1987 to 1997. He served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for International Development from 2010 to 2012, and then briefly as Government Chief Whip in the House of Commons until he resigned after losing the confidence of many of his colleagues following an alleged altercation with a police officer.

Mitchell was elected President of the Cambridge Union in 1978. A former United Nations military peacekeeper, he has extensive pre-government experience of the developing world, and is the founder of Project Umubano, a Conservative Party social action project in Rwanda and Sierra Leone in central and west Africa, launched in 2007.

Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Mitchell

MP DETAILS
AddressAndrew Mitchell MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Phone Number020 7219 4272
Political PartyConservative
Email Addressinfo@sutton-coldfield-tories.org.uk
ConstituencySutton Coldfield
GenderMale
Date of Birth23/03/1956
Party PageWebsite
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2015 GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS

SHARE OF VOTES
54.6%
22.3%
5.2%
2.8 %
14.7%
Conservative
Labour
Liberal Democrat
Green Party
UKIP
ELECTION TURNOUT

Election turnout for the Sutton Coldfield constituency in 2015 was 67.80%, higher than the average UK turnout at 66.1%.

2015 CANDIDATES

Candidate Party Gender Date of Birth LinkedIn Website
Andrew MitchellConservativeMale23 March 1956 (68)--
David RatcliffGreenMale---
Marcus John BrownUK Independence PartyMale19 September 1972 (52)-http://www.marcusjohnbrown.co.uk/
Mark SleighUbuntu PartyMale---
Richard Brighton-KnightLiberal DemocratMale---
Rob PocockLabourMale---

2010 GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS

SHARE OF VOTES
53.97%
20.36%
18.02%
%
%
1.06%
3.46%
3.14%
Conservative
Labour
Liberal Democrat
Scottish National
Plaid Cymru
Green Party
BNP
UKIP
2005 GENERAL ELECTION WINNERS
Conservative
VOTE COUNTS
PartyVotesShare
 BNP1,7493.5%
 Conservative27,30354%
 Green5351.1%
 Labour10,29820.4%
 Liberal-Democrat9,11718%
 UK-Independence-Party1,5873.1%
TOTALS
Electorate74,489
Votes50,589
Turnout67.9%
2010 CANDIDATES
ConservativeMitchell, Andrew
LabourPocock, Robert
Liberal DemocratBrighton, Richard
GreenRooney, Joe
BNPGrierson, Robert
UKIPSiddall-Jones, Edward
ELECTION TURNOUT

Election turnout for the Sutton Coldfield constituency in 2010 was 67.9%, higher than the average UK turnout at 65.1%.

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