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	Map1	SouthamptonTest
	Map2	Hampshire
	Type	Borough
	Year	1950
	Entity	Hampshire
	County	Hampshire
	EP	South East England
	MP	Alan Whitehead
	Party	Labour

Southampton Test is a Constituency of the House Of Commons of the Parliament Of The United Kingdom . It elects one Member Of Parliament (MP) by the First Past The Post system of election.


BOUNDARIES

The seat covers the western part of the City Of Southampton , in southern England and is named after the River Test , one of the city's two rivers. It covers the leafy northern suburbs and the western port areas as well as the council housing estates of the western fringes. It is seen as the marginally more affluent of the two constituencies in the city, and has had more Tory tradition than its neighbour Southampton Itchen — named after the other major River ).

Southampton Test covers the city wards of (with their associated neighbourhoods):

• --- Bassett (Bassett, Bassett Green, Lordswood)


• --- Bevois (Northam, part of St. Marys)


• --- Coxford (Lord's Hill, Aldermoor)


• --- Freemantle (Freemantle, part of Shirley)


• --- Millbrook (Millbrook)


• --- Portswood (Portswood, Highfield (including the University ), St. Denys)


• --- Redbridge (Redbridge, Maybush)


• --- Shirley (part of Shirley, Upper Shirley)


• --- Swaythling (Swaythling)

The constituency is bounded to the east by Southampton Itchen ( Labour ), to the north by Romsey ( Liberal Democrat ) and in to the west by New Forest East ( Conservative ).


MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT

The seat is represented currently by the Labour Party MP Alan Whitehead .

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ELECTIONS

title General Election 2005 : Southampton Test

party Labour Party (UK)   candidate Alan Whitehead   votes 17,845   percentage 427   change &minus98

party Conservative Party (UK)   candidate Stephen MacLoughlin   votes 10,827   percentage 259   change +04

party Liberal Democrats (UK)   candidate Steve Sollitt   votes 10,368   percentage 248   change +67

party Green Party of England and Wales   candidate John Spottiswoode   votes 1,482   percentage 35   change ''N/A''

party United Kingdom Independence Party   candidate Peter Day   votes 1,261   percentage 30   change +11

votes 7,018   percentage 168

votes 41,783   percentage 537   change &minus26

winner Labour Party (UK)   swing &minus51

title General Election 2001 : Southampton Test

party Labour Party (UK)   candidate Alan Whitehead   votes 21,824   percentage 525   change -17

party Conservative Party (UK)   candidate Richard Gueterbock   votes 10,617   percentage 255   change -25

party Liberal Democrats (UK)   candidate John Shaw   votes 7,522   percentage 181   change +44

party United Kingdom Independence Party   candidate Garry Rankin-Moore   votes 792   percentage 19   change +15

party Socialist Alliance (England)   candidate Mark Abel   votes 442   percentage 11   change ''N/A''

party Socialist Labour Party (UK)   candidate Paramjit Bahia   votes 378   percentage 09   change ''N/A''

votes 11,207   percentage 270

votes 41,575   percentage 563   change -154

winner Labour Party (UK)

SEE ALSO

• List Of Parliamentary Constituencies In Hampshire