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Labour MPs are vulnerable in at least four Birmingham seat in the up and coming general election - including Selly Oak new figures have revealed.

A break-down of last week’s mayoral election results has shown that the Tories were ahead in Edgbaston, Northfield and challenging hard in Erdington and Selly Oak.

In Selly Oak, where Labour’s Steve McCabe has been MP since 2010, the gap was just 63 votes between the two parties.

Across the city Labour took 47 per cent of the vote as candidate Sion Simon got 95,098 votes compared to 73,578 for Conservative Andy Street - but Mr Street fared much better in other boroughs to win the election .

However Birmingham Conservatives will be cheered by the breakdown which show them considerably ahead in the marginal Edgbaston and Northfield seats.

While Labour were boosted as they were in front in Erdington which has already been earmarked by both sides as the key battleground in the city. Labour’s sitting MP Jack Dromey is under pressure from Conservative councillor Robert Alden - it will be their third general election battle.

Surprisingly however the Selly Oak constituency is now on the marginal list. Labour’s Steve McCabe will be challenged by Conservative Sophie Shrubsole.

Local Labour activists hope the party’s policies for young people, including scrapping tuition fees to be popular with the constituency’s large student population and see them through.

The breakdown of first round votes from the West Midlands Mayor election in Birmingham:

Edgbaston: Conservative 9,916, Labour 6,522

Erdington: Conservative 5,775, Labour 6,313

Hall Green: Conservaite 6,385, Labour 16,544

Hodge Hill: Conservative 2,515, Labour 14,776

Ladywood: Conservative 2,755, Labour 13,067

Northfield: Conservative 8,844, Labour 5,741

Perry Barr: Conservative 4,590, Labour 11,685

Selly Oak: Conservative 8,762, Labour 8,825

Sutton Coldfield: Conservative 4,278, Labour 1,312

Yardley: Conservative 5,224, Labour 7,850 and Lib Dem 2,519

Almost all Birmingham seats are Labour-Tory battlegrounds. Only in Yardley is the main challenge to Labour thought to come from the Lib Dems - although the mayoral election result had the Tories are in second place.

Turnouts are likely to much higher for the June 8 general election than the 28 per cent of Brummies who voted last week.

While the focus on the party leaders Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn could see very different voting patterns to the mayoral contest.