Birmingham Yardley general election results 2024

Birmingham Yardley has been retained by Labour in a close contest with the Workers' Party in the UK General Election. Jess Phillips secured 11,275 votes in the seat - winning with 31% of the vote.

Workers' Party candidate Jody McIntyre came second with 10,582 votes, leaving Phillips with a 50.3% majority. Birmingham Yardley has been held by The Labour Party since 2015 - having previously been a Liberal Democrat seat.

Yardley is one of the Birmingham seats where Independent candidates were expected to take votes off Labour, capitalising on the party's much-criticised stance on Gaza. When BirminghamLive visited the area prior to the election, residents said they had become 'fed-up' with politicians and held little faith things would change in their area, irregardless of who won the election.

The turnout was 50.3%.

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The constituency covers Acocks Green, Sheldon, Small Heath, South Yardley, Tyseley and Hay Mills, Yardley and Stechford. The Garretts Green ward is now in the Hodge Hill and Solihull North constituency in exchange for the Small Heath ward.

Birmingham Yardley election results in full

Turnout for the election was 50.3%. Here are the results in full.

• Jess Phillips (Labour) - 11,275 votes
  

• Yvonne Beverley Clements (Conservative) - 3,634 votes

• Roxanne Green (Green Party) - 1,958 votes

• Roger Harmer (Liberal Democrats) - 3,634 votes

• Nora Kamberi (Reform UK) - 5,061 votes

• Jody McIntyre (Workers Party of Britain) -10,582 votes
  

Who won Birmingham Yardley in 2019?

Labour won the seat in 2019 with Jess Phillips returned with 23,379 votes - with the Conservatives' second with 12,720 votes. From 2020-2023, Jess Phillips served as Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding in Keir Starmer's Opposition frontbench.

In November 2023, Phillips quit the role to call for a ceasefire in Gaza saying the party had some "searching" to do following its underperformance in areas with a high Muslim population during local elections. Speaking to BirminghamLive prior to the vote, Phillips said she would focus on tackling homelessness and improving the state of local streets if elected.