1974–1983: The County Borough of Birmingham wards of Erdington, Gravelly Hill, and Stockland Green.

1997–2010: The City of Birmingham wards of Erdington, Kingsbury, Kingstanding, and Stockland Green (as they existed on 1 June 1994).

2010–2018: The City of Birmingham wards of Erdington, Kingstanding, Stockland Green, and Tyburn (as they existed on 12 April 2005).

[6] This is a mix of council estates, some of which are now private homes under the Right to Buy, the large Kingstanding estate and Castle Vale being examples, and generally more affluent suburbs which are private housing particularly towards the Sutton Coldfield border in Erdington itself, the strongest Conservative ward in the seat.

Since the seat was recreated in 1974, only Labour MPs have been elected, although Conservative candidates reduced the majority to three figures in 1979 and 1983; both of which resulted in victories for the party as a whole nationwide.