BBC Profile:
Formerly known as Staffordshire South West, this constituency was formed in 1974 when Cannock was split. Sir Patrick Cormack won Cannock from Nye Bevans' widow, Jennie Lee, in 1970 when he overturned her 11,000-vote majority; but he moved to the new seat on its creation and has represented it ever since to become one of the longest serving Members of Parliament. Through the years Cormack returned majorities of around 20,000 in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1997, with boundary changes the Conservatives were still returned with a 7,821 vote majority, with above 50% of the vote share.

In 2005 the death of the Lib Dem candidate during the general election campaign caused the poll to be postponed until a deferred poll in June.

At this election the boundary changes that affect this seat are minor. To find out what might have happened had this boundary change been in force at the last election, see a notional - or estimated - result below.

South Staffordshire is a prosperous rural seat that curls around the western and northern fringes of the West Midlands, particularly Wolverhampton.

South Staffordshire comprises a sliver of territory along the bottom edge of Staffordshire and round to form a thin separation between the huge West Midlands conurbation from rural Shropshire.

It contains no major towns, but neither is it wholly rural. In addition to large areas of agricultural land it also contains a string of large suburban villages such as Codsall, Perton and

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BBC Profile:
Formerly known as Staffordshire South West, this constituency was formed in 1974 when Cannock was split. Sir Patrick Cormack won Cannock from Nye Bevans' widow, Jennie Lee, in 1970 when he overturned her 11,000-vote majority; but he moved to the new seat on its creation and has represented it ever since to become one of the longest serving Members of Parliament. Through the years Cormack returned majorities of around 20,000 in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1997, with boundary changes the Conservatives were still returned with a 7,821 vote majority, with above 50% of the vote share.

In 2005 the death of the Lib Dem candidate during the general election campaign caused the poll to be postponed until a deferred poll in June.

At this election the boundary changes that affect this seat are minor. To find out what might have happened had this boundary change been in force at the last election, see a notional - or estimated - result below.

South Staffordshire is a prosperous rural seat that curls around the western and northern fringes of the West Midlands, particularly Wolverhampton.

South Staffordshire comprises a sliver of territory along the bottom edge of Staffordshire and round to form a thin separation between the huge West Midlands conurbation from rural Shropshire.

It contains no major towns, but neither is it wholly rural. In addition to large areas of agricultural land it also contains a string of large suburban villages such as Codsall, Perton and Wombourne that serve as commuter dormitories for places like Wolverhampton and Dudley further to the east.

There are more agricultural and mining and quarrying jobs in South Staffordshire than the national average.

Rallings & Thrasher Notional:
C 13,794 (50.65%)
Lab 5,448 (20.00%)
LD 3,654 (13.42%)
UKIP 2,757 (10.12%)
Others 1,144 (4.20%)
Green 437 (1.60%)

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