Elections in The 2000s
| General Election 2005: Birmingham, Northfield | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Richard Burden | 15,419 | 49.6 | -6.4 | |
| Conservative | Vicky Ford | 8,965 | 28.9 | -0.7 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Trevor Sword | 4,171 | 13.4 | +2.2 | |
| BNP | Mark Cattell | 1,278 | 4.1 | N/A | |
| UKIP | Gillian Chant | 641 | 2.1 | +0.2 | |
| Common Good | Richard Rogers | 428 | 1.4 | N/A | |
| Socialist Alternative | Louise Houdley | 120 | 0.4 | N/A | |
| Workers Revolutionary | Frank Sweeney | 34 | 0.1 | N/A | |
| Majority | 6,454 | 20.8 | |||
| Turnout | 31,056 | 56.6 | +3.8 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -2.8 | |||
| General Election 2001: Birmingham, Northfield | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Richard Burden | 16,528 | 56.0 | -1.5 | |
| Conservative | Nils Purser | 8,730 | 29.6 | +1.6 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Trevor Sword | 3,322 | 11.2 | +0.8 | |
| UKIP | Stephen Rogers | 550 | 1.9 | N/A | |
| Socialist Alliance | Clive Walder | 193 | 0.7 | N/A | |
| Socialist Labour | Zane Carpenter | 151 | 0.5 | N/A | |
| Communist | Andrew Chaffer | 60 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| Majority | 7,798 | 26.4 | |||
| Turnout | 29,534 | 52.8 | -15.5 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -1.5 | |||
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