St. Michael's, Coventry

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St Michael's is an electoral ward in Coventry, West Midlands, England. The ward's population is 21,700 (2010). In 2001, its population was 56% White British and 23% Asian or Asian British, many of whom were Bangladeshi. The ward includes many students, and 20- to 24-year-olds make up over 20% of the population. [1] The ward population had increased to 24,119 at the 2011 Census. [2]

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According to the city's 2007 Index of Deprivation, St Michael's is the second most deprived ward of the city. While the average household income in Coventry was £31,697 in 2008, it was £25,372 in St Michael's, making it the second poorest ward, though it grew by 24.5% since 2005, which is a more rapid pace of growth than that of the Coventry average (14.5%). Similarly, the crime rate in St Michael's was slightly over three times as high as that of Coventry as a whole in 2007, but it had fallen by 34% since 2004/'05, when it was over four times as high. The unemployment rate in the ward was 4.6% in September 2008, when that of Coventry as a whole was 3.6%, but in 2001 unemployment in St Michael's was still twice as high as in Coventry overall (6.2% vs. 3.0%). That change may however also be due to boundary changes in 2004. [1]

Currently, the ward contains the city centre of Coventry, including St. Michael's Cathedral and the neighbourhoods of Charterhouse and Hillfields. Hillfields is undergoing large-scale changes, which encompass the demolition of Coventry City's Highfield Road stadium and what the Coventry City Council describes as "the biggest single regeneration project in Coventry". [3]

St Michael's ward is represented by three Labour Councillors. They are Naeem Akhtar (term of office: 2016–2021), Jim O'Boyle (2019–2023) and Sandija Jobbar (2024). [4]

2024 Election

St Michael's [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Sandija Jobbar89949%−21%
TUSC Dave Nellist 32718%+9%
Workers Party Ejaz Janjua21212%+12%
Conservative Mehmet Yetkin1458%−2%
Green Thomas James Jewell965%+1%
Coventry Citizens Party Karen Wilson945%+1%
Liberal Democrat Robyn Clare Simpson573%
Turnout 1,830
Labour hold Swing

2022 Election

St Michael's [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour David Stuart Welsh1,89870%+3%
Conservative Mary Taylor27010%−3%
TUSC Dave Nellist 2579%
Green David Neil Priestley1817%+2%
Coventry Citizens Party Karen Wilson1144%+1%
Turnout 2,720
Labour hold Swing

2021 Election

St Michael's [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Naeem Akhtar2,02867%−2%
Conservative Daniel James Partington38513%+4%
TUSC Dave Nellist 2749%−6%
Green Allan John Aspinall1665%−2%
Coventry Citizens Party Karen Wilson1003%
Liberal Democrat Benoit David Jones943%
Turnout 3,047
Labour hold Swing

2019 Election

St Michael's [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Jim O'Boyle1,76569%+2.9%
TUSC Dave Nellist 39615%+8%
Conservative Mary Taylor2249%+3%
Green Joe McAvoy-Boss1907%+4%
Turnout 2,575
Labour hold Swing


2018 Election

St Michael's [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour David Stuart Welsh1,95266.1%+24.1%
TUSC Dave Nellist 3507%−12.8%
Conservative Mark Andrew Lerigo2756%−2.5%
Green Aimee Challenor1463%−2.5%
Turnout 4.675
Labour hold Swing

2016 Election

St Michael's [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Naeem Akhtar3,15866.1%+8.3%
TUSC Dave Nellist 63519.8%+3.5%
Conservative Christopher Michael Noonan2748.5%−3.5%
Green Aimee Challenor1785.5%−0.9%
Turnout 3,20924.91%−20.83%
Labour hold Swing

2015 election

St Michael's [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Jim O'Boyle3,15857.8%+0.7%
TUSC Dave Nellist 89416.3%−13.4%
Conservative Jennifer Clare Wells65612.0%+4.0%
UKIP Wayne Geoffrey Newman4087.5%
Green Tristan Hamish Mackrory3526.4%+1.1%
Turnout 5,46845.74%+23.43%
Labour hold Swing

2014 election

St Michael's [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour David Welsh1,87257.1%+7.7%
TUSC Dave Nellist 97429.7%
Conservative Maharshi Shrimali2618.0%+0.8%
Green Scott Redding1745.3%
Turnout 3,28122.31%+1.12%
Labour hold Swing

2012 election

St Michael's [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Naeem Akhtar167349.4%
Socialist Alternative Dave Nellist 1,46943.4%
Conservative Christian Michael Cliffe2437.2%
Turnout 3,38521.19%
Labour gain from Socialist Alternative Swing


References

  1. 1 2 Coventry ward profile: St. Michael's [ dead link ]
  2. ↑ "Coventry ward population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  3. ↑ Coventry City Council: About St Michael's Ward [ dead link ]
  4. 1 2 "Election results for St Michael's Local – St Michael's By-Election – Thursday, 10th October, 2024"
  5. ↑ "Coventry City Council elections – St Michael's Ward – Labour hold". Coventry City Council . Retrieved 9 March 2023.
  6. ↑ "Coventry City Council elections – St Michael's Ward – Labour hold". Coventry City Council . Retrieved 9 March 2023.
  7. ↑ "Coventry City Council elections – St Michael's Ward – Labour hold". Coventry City Council . Retrieved 9 March 2023.
  8. ↑ "Coventry City Council elections – St Michael's Ward – Labour hold". Coventry City Council . Retrieved 9 March 2023.
  9. ↑ "Coventry City Council elections – St Michael's Ward – Labour hold". Coventry City Council . Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  10. ↑ "Coventry City Council elections – St Michael's Ward – Labour hold". Coventry City Council . Retrieved 26 March 2016.
  11. ↑ "Coventry City Council elections – St Michael's Ward – Labour hold". Coventry City Council . Retrieved 26 March 2016.
  12. ↑ "Coventry City Council elections – St Michael's Ward – Labour gain". Coventry City Council . Retrieved 26 March 2016.
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