Birmingham is to lose one MP as part of plans to cut numbers in the House of Commons.
It means the number of MPs representing the city will go down from ten to nine.
And one city MP, representing the seat of Birmingham Northfield, will have to represent residents from Bromsgrove as well as their Birmingham constituents.
At the same time, thousands of Birmingham residents will be represented by Black Country MPs.
The 17,000 residents of Birmingham’s Handswood Wood ward will be represented by the MP for West Bromwich.
And 17,000 residents of Oscott ward in Birmingham will be represented by the MP for the new constituency of Walsall and Oscott, which will also include 55,000 people in Walsall.
Solihull will continue to have two MPs as it does now.
The new constituencies have been drawn up by the Boundary Commission for England, which has been told by the Government to find a way of reducing the number of MPs 600 from 650, and to ensure that the number of electors in each constituency is roughly equal.
It says that the only way to achieve this is to create constituencies which cross local authority boundaries. In the past, constituencies have tended to coincide with the area covered by councils.
Residents who find themselves in a new constituency won’t change their address or postcode.
Sutton Coldfield MP Andrew Mitchell had requested that the name of his constituency be changed to “Royal Sutton Coldfield” - but the Boundary Commission rejected this idea.
An initial 12-week consultation on earlier plans held in the autumn last year, followed by a second consultation in the Spring of this year. Over 25,000 public responses were received during these consultations.
A third and final consultation has now begun, but the new plans are likely to be put into practice.
Sam Hartley, Secretary to the Boundary Commission for England, said: “The new map of the country we publish today is, we think, close to the best set of Parliamentary constituencies we can achieve, based on the rules to which we work and the evidence given to us by local citizens.”
The nine Birmingham constituencies and their council wards:
Birmingham Brandwood
Billesley Birmingham
Bournville Birmingham
Brandwood Birmingham
Moseley and Kings Heath Birmingham
Birmingham Edgbaston and Selly Oak
Bartley Green Birmingham
Edgbaston Birmingham
Harborne Birmingham
Quinton Birmingham
Selly Oak Birmingham
Birmingham Erdington and Perry Barr
Erdington Birmingham
Kingstanding Birmingham
Perry Barr Birmingham
Stockland Green Birmingham
Tyburn Birmingham
Birmingham Hall Green
Acocks Green Birmingham
Hall Green Birmingham
Sparkbrook Birmingham
Springfield Birmingham
Birmingham Hodge Hil l
Hodge Hill Birmingham
Shard End Birmingham
Stechford and Yardley North Birmingham
Washwood Heath Birmingham
Birmingham Ladywood
Aston Birmingham
Ladywood Birmingha
Lozells and East Handsworth Birmingham
Soho Birmingham
Soho and Victoria Sandwell
Birmingham Northfield
Kings Norton Birmingham
Longbridge Birmingham
Northfield Birmingham
Weoley Birmingham
Rubery North Bromsgrove
Rubery South Bromsgrove
Birmingham Yardley
Bordesley Green Birmingham
Nechells Birmingham
Sheldon Birmingham
South Yardley Birmingham
Sutton Coldfield
Sutton Four Oaks Birmingham
Sutton New Hall Birmingham
Sutton Trinity Birmingham
Sutton Vesey Birmingham
The two Solihull constituencies and their council wards
Meriden
Bickenhill Solihull
Castle Bromwich Solihull 3
Chelmsley Wood Solihull
Dorridge and Hockley Heath Solihull6
Elmdon Solihull
Kingshurst and Fordbridge Solihul
Knowle Solihull
Meriden Solihull
Smith’s Wood Solihull
Solihull
Blythe Solihull
Lyndon Solihull
Olton Solihull
Shirley East Solihull
Shirley South Solihull
Shirley West Solihull
Silhill Solihull 9,119
St. Alphege Solihull
