West Bromwich West (UK Parliament constituency)
West Bromwich West | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of West Bromwich West in West Midlands | |
![]() Location of West Midlands within England | |
County | West Midlands |
Electorate | 65,249 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Tipton and Wednesbury |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1974 |
Member of Parliament | Shaun Bailey (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | West Bromwich |
West Bromwich West is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Shaun Bailey, a member of the Conservative Party.[n 2]
Members of Parliament[]
Election | Member[2] | Party | |
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Feb 1974 | Betty Boothroyd | Labour | |
1992 | Speaker | ||
2000 by-election | Adrian Bailey | Labour Co-op | |
2019 | Shaun Bailey | Conservative |
Constituency profile[]
Wednesbury and Tipton are economic centres and historic towns with considerable suburbs, although overshadowed in the service sector by nearby Birmingham. Since the recessions of the 1970s and early 1980s, West Bromwich West has suffered from an acute, stubbornly great minority of unemployment, and as a result of the Great Recession of 2008, unemployment peaked at 14.3%. Only Birmingham, Ladywood nearby had higher unemployment rates in all of Britain.[3]
Workless claimants who were registered jobseekers were, in November 2012, higher than the national average of 3.8%, standing at 8.1% of the local population. Based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian, this also exceeded the regional average of 4.7% of those of working age in receipt of this benefit, which is seen as the lower gauge of the breadth of unemployment.[4]
Boundaries[]
West Bromwich West is one of four constituencies covering the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, covering its west and north-west. Its main settlements are the towns of Tipton and Wednesbury, alongside the villages or suburbs of Great Bridge, Princes End and Tividale.
1997–present: The Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell wards of Great Bridge, Oldbury, Princes End, Tipton Green, Tividale, Wednesbury North, and Wednesbury South.
1983–1997: The Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell wards of Great Bridge, Greets Green and Lyng, Princes End, Tipton Green, Wednesbury North, and Wednesbury South.
1974–1983: The County Borough of West Bromwich wards of Greets Green, Hill Top, Horseley Heath, Lyng, Market, Tibbington, Tipton Green, and Wood Green.
History[]
The constituency was created in 1974 and took its present boundaries (except for partial ward shares with West Bromwich East) in 1997.
- Political history
The seat was held by either the Labour Party or one of its members as the Speaker of the House of Commons from its creation until December 2019.
From 1974 until 2000, this was the constituency of Betty Boothroyd, who was first elected for the former West Bromwich in its by-election in 1973 and became the first woman to be Speaker of the House of Commons in 1992. She retired as Speaker in 2000.[n 3] The ensuing by-election was won by the Labour Co-operative candidate Adrian Bailey, who held the seat until 2019. Shaun Bailey, the Conservative Party candidate in the 2019 general election, took the seat from Labour with a 50.5% vote share on an 11.7% swing. He became the first-ever Conservative member for the constituency.
At local level, Labour hold most of the wards of the constituency. From 2008 until 2012, they were followed by the controversial British National Party, who had four councillors, ahead of the Conservatives with three. This came after a fairly strong BNP showing in the 2005 general election, when they received nearly 10% of the vote.
Elections[]
Elections in the 2010s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Shaun Bailey | 17,419 | 50.5 | +10.8 | |
Labour | James Cunningham | 13,620 | 39.5 | ���12.6 | |
Brexit Party | Franco D'Aulerio | 1,841 | 5.3 | New | |
Liberal Democrats | Flo Clucas | 915 | 2.7 | +1.8 | |
Green | Keir Williams | 664 | 1.9 | +1.0 | |
Majority | 3,799 | 11.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 34,459 | 53.4 | –1.3 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +11.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Adrian Bailey | 18,789 | 52.1 | +4.8 | |
Conservative | Andrew Hardie | 14,329 | 39.7 | +15.8 | |
UKIP | Star Anderton | 2,320 | 6.4 | –18.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Flo Clucas | 333 | 0.9 | –0.7 | |
Green | Robert Buckman | 323 | 0.9 | –1.1 | |
Majority | 4,460 | 12.4 | –9.7 | ||
Turnout | 36,094 | 54.7 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | –5.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Adrian Bailey | 16,578 | 47.3 | +2.3 | |
UKIP | Graham Eardley | 8,836 | 25.2 | +20.9 | |
Conservative | Paul Ratner | 8,365 | 23.9 | –5.4 | |
Green | Mark Redding | 697 | 2.0 | New | |
Liberal Democrats | Karen Trench | 550 | 1.6 | –10.4 | |
Majority | 7,742 | 22.1 | +5.4 | ||
Turnout | 35,026 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | –9.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Adrian Bailey | 16,263 | 45.0 | –8.7 | |
Conservative | Andrew Hardie | 10,612 | 29.3 | +6.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sadie Smith | 4,336 | 12.0 | +1.8 | |
BNP | Russ Green | 3,394 | 9.4 | –0.5 | |
UKIP | Malcolm Ford | 1,566 | 4.3 | +1.8 | |
Majority | 5,651 | 15.7 | –15.9 | ||
Turnout | 36,171 | 55.6 | +4.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –7.6 |
Elections in the 2000s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Adrian Bailey | 18,951 | 54.3 | –6.5 | |
Conservative | Mimi Harker | 8,057 | 23.1 | –2.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Martyn Smith | 3,583 | 10.3 | +3.5 | |
BNP | James Lloyd | 3,456 | 9.9 | +5.4 | |
UKIP | Kevin Walker | 870 | 2.5 | +0.9 | |
Majority | 10,894 | 31.2 | –4.5 | ||
Turnout | 34,917 | 52.3 | +4.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –2.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Adrian Bailey | 19,352 | 60.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | Karen Bissell | 7,997 | 25.1 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Sadie Smith | 2,168 | 6.8 | N/A | |
BNP | John Salvage | 1,428 | 4.5 | N/A | |
UKIP | Kevin Walker | 499 | 1.6 | N/A | |
Socialist Labour | Baghwant Singh | 396 | 1.2 | New | |
Majority | 11,355 | 35.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 31,840 | 47.7 | –6.7 | ||
Labour gain from Speaker | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Adrian Bailey | 9,460 | 50.6 | N/A | |
Conservative | Karen Bissell | 6,408 | 34.3 | New | |
Liberal Democrats | Sadie Smith | 1,791 | 9.6 | New | |
BNP | Nick Griffin | 794 | 4.2 | New | |
UKIP | Jonathan Oakton | 246 | 1.3 | New | |
Majority | 3,052 | 16.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 18,599 | 27.3 | -27.1 | ||
Labour gain from Speaker | Swing |
Elections in the 1990s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Speaker | Betty Boothroyd1 | 23,969 | 65.3 | +10.5 | |
Independent Labour | Richard Silvester | 8,546 | 23.3 | New | |
National Democrats | Steven Edwards | 4,181 | 11.4 | New | |
Majority | 15,423 | 42.0 | +22.7 | ||
Turnout | 36,696 | 54.4 | -16.0 | ||
Speaker hold | Swing |
1Boothroyd stood as "The Speaker seeking re-election."
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Betty Boothroyd | 22,251 | 54.8 | +4.3 | |
Conservative | Desmond Swayne | 14,421 | 35.5 | –1.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sarah Broadbent | 3,925 | 9.7 | –2.7 | |
Majority | 7,830 | 19.3 | +6.0 | ||
Turnout | 40,597 | 70.4 | +3.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +3.0 |
Elections in the 1980s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Betty Boothroyd | 19,925 | 50.5 | -0.2 | |
Conservative | Francis Betteridge | 14,672 | 37.2 | +4.3 | |
SDP | Anthony Collingbourne | 4,877 | 12.4 | -4.0 | |
Majority | 5,253 | 13.3 | -4.5 | ||
Turnout | 39,474 | 67.0 | +3.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -2.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Betty Boothroyd | 18,896 | 50.7 | -9.6 | |
Conservative | D Harman | 12,257 | 32.9 | -3.4 | |
SDP | A Collingbourne | 6,094 | 16.4 | New | |
Majority | 6,639 | 17.8 | -6.2 | ||
Turnout | 37,247 | 63.8 | -3.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -3.1 |
Elections in the 1970s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Betty Boothroyd | 23,791 | 60.3 | -1.9 | |
Conservative | D Harrison | 14,323 | 36.3 | +13.5 | |
National Front | R Churms | 1,351 | 3.4 | -2.0 | |
Majority | 9,468 | 24.0 | -15.4 | ||
Turnout | 39,465 | 67.1 | +4.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -7.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Betty Boothroyd | 23,336 | 62.2 | -0.7 | |
Conservative | N Bridges-Adams | 8,537 | 22.8 | -6.5 | |
Liberal | DJ Corney | 3,619 | 9.7 | New | |
National Front | R Churms | 2,022 | 5.4 | -2.4 | |
Majority | 14,799 | 39.4 | +5.8 | ||
Turnout | 37,514 | 62.8 | -4.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Betty Boothroyd | 25,112 | 62.9 | ||
Conservative | PM Smith | 11,681 | 29.3 | ||
National Front | G Bowen | 3,107 | 7.8 | ||
Majority | 13,431 | 33.6 | |||
Turnout | 39,900 | 67.5 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
See also[]
- List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Midlands
Notes[]
- ^ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
- ^ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
- ^ She was elevated to the House of Lords as Baroness Boothroyd of Sandwell.
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- Politics of Sandwell
- Parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (county)
- Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1974
- West Bromwich