Wolverhampton South West (UK Parliament constituency)
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of Wolverhampton South West in West Midlands.
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County | West Midlands |
Electorate | 59,846 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Wolverhampton |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1950 |
Member of parliament | Rob Marris (Labour) |
Number of members | One |
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European Parliament constituency | West Midlands |
Wolverhampton South West is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Contents
Boundaries
1950-1955: The County Borough of Wolverhampton wards of Blakenhall and St John's, Graiseley, Penn, St George's, St Mark's and Merridale, St Matthew's, and St Philip's.
1955-1974: The County Borough of Wolverhampton wards of Blakenhall and St John's, Graiseley, Park, Penn, St George's, St Mark's and Merridale, St Matthew's, and St Philip's.
1974-1983: The County Borough of Wolverhampton wards of Graiseley, Merry Hill, Park, Penn, St Peter's, Tettenhall Regis, and Tettenhall Wightwick.
1983-2010: The Metropolitan Borough of Wolverhampton wards of Graiseley, Merry Hill, Park, Penn, St Peter's, Tettenhall Regis, and Tettenhall Wightwick.
2010-present: The City of Wolverhampton wards of Graiseley, Merry Hill, Park, Penn, St Peter's, Tettenhall Regis, and Tettenhall Wightwick.
Wolverhampton South West is one of three constituencies covering the city of Wolverhampton, covering the city centre (including the University and Civic Centre) as well as western and south-western parts of the city. The boundaries run south from the city centre towards Penn and north-west towards Tettenhall.
Constituency profile
This hyper-marginal seat contains a mix of different areas; St Peter's, Graiseley and Park are relatively deprived inner city wards, with significant ethnic minority populations, mainly of Asian origin and are Labour voting-areas. Penn and Merry Hill are more mixed and suburban with mostly Conservative voters. Tettenhall Regis and Tettenhall Wightwick are affluent suburbs on the western fringe of the West Midlands conurbation and are the strongest Tory wards in the seat.
The seat includes Molineux stadium, home to Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C..
History
Wolverhampton South West was once regarded as a Conservative safe seat until Labour gained it in their 1997 landslide.
The constituency is heavily associated with the controversial Conservative politician Enoch Powell who was MP for the seat from 1950 until 1974, when he departed to the Ulster Unionist Party. It was during this time that he served in Ted Heath's shadow cabinet, from which he was dismissed in 1968 after his controversial Rivers of Blood speech in which he predicted severe civil unrest if mass immigration from the Commonwealth continued. This speech was reportedly the result of Powell's meeting with a woman in the constituency who was the last white person living in her street.[2]
He was succeeded by fellow Conservative Nicholas Budgen, who held the seat until 1997. Budgen is best known as one of the Maastricht rebels of the mid 1990s. He was defeated in the 1997 election by Labour's Jenny Jones, the seat being one of many gained by Labour from the Conservatives in that election. As the next general election loomed, she announced that she would not be seeking re-election. From the 2001 general election, the constituency was represented by Rob Marris of the Labour Party for nine years until he lost it in the 2010 general election to Paul Uppal of the Conservative Party, who coincidentally had exactly the same numerical majority (691) as Powell did in 1950. Marris regained the seat from Uppal at the 2015 general election.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[3] | Party | |
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1950 | Enoch Powell | Conservative | |
Feb 1974 | Nicholas Budgen | Conservative | |
1997 | Jenny Jones | Labour | |
2001 | Rob Marris | Labour | |
2010 | Paul Uppal | Conservative | |
2015 | Rob Marris | Labour |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rob Marris | 17,374 | 43.2 | +4.2 | |
Conservative | Paul Uppal | 16,573 | 41.2 | +0.5 | |
UKIP | Dave Everett | 4,310 | 10.7 | +7.0 | |
Green | Andrea Cantrill | 1,058 | 2.6 | +2.6 | |
Liberal Democrat | Neale Upstone | 845 | 2.1 | -13.9 | |
Independent | Brian Booth | 49 | 0.1 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 801 | 2.0 | |||
Turnout | 40,209 | 66.6 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +1.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Paul Uppal | 16,344 | 40.7 | +2.6 | |
Labour | Rob Marris | 15,653 | 39.0 | −4.5 | |
Liberal Democrat | Robin Lawrence | 6,430 | 16.0 | +2.5 | |
UKIP | Amanda Mobberley | 1,487 | 3.7 | +1.2 | |
Equal Parenting Alliance | Raymond Barry | 246 | 0.6 | +0.6 | |
Majority | 691 | 1.7 | |||
Turnout | 40,160 | 67.9 | +4.8 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +3.5 |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rob Marris | 18,489 | 44.4 | −3.9 | |
Conservative | Sandip Verma | 15,610 | 37.5 | −2.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | Colin Ross | 5,568 | 13.4 | +5.0 | |
UKIP | Douglas Hope | 1,029 | 2.5 | +0.8 | |
BNP | Edward Mullins | 983 | 2.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,879 | 6.9 | |||
Turnout | 41,679 | 62.1 | 0.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −0.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rob Marris | 19,735 | 48.3 | −2.1 | |
Conservative | David Chambers | 16,248 | 39.7 | −0.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | Mike Dixon | 3,425 | 8.4 | +0.2 | |
Green | Wendy Walker | 805 | 2.0 | N/A | |
UKIP | Doug Hope | 684 | 1.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,487 | 8.6 | |||
Turnout | 40,897 | 62.1 | −10.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jenny Jones | 24,657 | 50.4 | +10.5 | |
Conservative | Nicholas Budgen | 19,539 | 39.9 | −9.4 | |
Liberal Democrat | Matthew Green | 4,012 | 8.2 | −0.3 | |
Liberal | Mike Hyde | 713 | 1.5 | −0.8 | |
Majority | 5,118 | 10.5 | |||
Turnout | 48,921 | 72.4 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Nicholas Budgen | 25,969 | 49.3 | −1.4 | |
Labour | Simon Murphy | 21,003 | 39.9 | +9.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | Mark Wiggin | 4,470 | 8.5 | −10.1 | |
Liberal | Colin Hallmark | 1,237 | 2.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,966 | 9.4 | −10.6 | ||
Turnout | 52,679 | 78.2 | +2.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +5.3 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Nicholas Budgen | 26,235 | 50.7 | +0.1 | |
Labour | Roger Lawrence | 15,917 | 30.7 | +3.2 | |
SDP–Liberal Alliance (Social Democratic) | Beris Lamb | 9,616 | 18.6 | −2.9 | |
Majority | 10,318 | 20.0 | −3.1 | ||
Turnout | 51,768 | 75.5 | +3.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Nicholas Budgen | 25,214 | 50.6 | −1.1 | |
Labour | Bob Jones | 13,694 | 27.5 | −4.7 | |
SDP–Liberal Alliance (Social Democratic) | Edgar Harwood | 10,724 | 21.5 | +8.0 | |
Anti-Common Market | John Deary | 201 | 0.4 | ||
Majority | 11,520 | 23.1 | |||
Turnout | 49,833 | 72.4 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Nicholas William Budgen | 26,587 | 52.5 | +8.3 | |
Labour | Ivan Geffen | 15,827 | 31.2 | −1.8 | |
Liberal | Joseph Wernick | 6,939 | 13.7 | −5.8 | |
National Front | June Lees | 912 | 1.8 | −1.5 | |
Anti-Common Market | John Deary | 401 | 0.8 | ||
Majority | 10,760 | 21.2 | |||
Turnout | 50,666 | 76.6 | +2.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Nicholas William Budgen | 20,854 | 44.2 | −1.5 | |
Labour | Ivan Ernest Geffen | 15,554 | 33.0 | +0.9 | |
Liberal | Joseph Abraham Wernick | 9,215 | 19.5 | +0.3 | |
National Front | Garth Anthony Cooper | 1,573 | 3.3 | +0.3 | |
Majority | 5,300 | 11.2 | |||
Turnout | 47,196 | 73.7 | −5.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Nicholas William Budgen | 23,123 | 45.7 | ||
Labour | Helene Middleweek | 16,222 | 32.1 | ||
Liberal | Joseph Abraham Wernick | 9,691 | 19.2 | ||
National Front | Garth Anthony Cooper | 1,523 | 3.0 | ||
Majority | 6,901 | 13.6 | |||
Turnout | 50,559 | 79.6 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Enoch Powell | 26,220 | 64.3 | +5.2 | |
Labour | Joshua Bamfield | 11,753 | 28.8 | −12.1 | |
Liberal | Eric Robinson | 2,459 | 6.0 | ||
Communist | Pete Carter | 189 | 0.5 | ||
Independent | Gavin Menzies[8] | 77 | 0.2 | ||
Independent | Dharam Dass | 52 | 0.1 | ||
Majority | 14,467 | 35.5 | |||
Turnout | 40,750 | 76.0 | +2.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Enoch Powell | 21,466 | 59.1 | +1.7 | |
Labour | Alexander Collier | 14,881 | 40.9 | +9.5 | |
Majority | 6,585 | 18.1 | |||
Turnout | 36,347 | 73.6 | −1.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Enoch Powell | 21,736 | 57.4 | −6.5 | |
Labour | Antony Gardner | 11,880 | 31.4 | −4.7 | |
Liberal | Nick Lloyd | 4,233 | 11.2 | ||
Majority | 9,856 | 26.0 | |||
Turnout | 37,849 | 75.3 | −3.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Enoch Powell | 25,696 | 63.9 | +3.9 | |
Labour | Eric Thorne | 14,529 | 36.1 | −3.9 | |
Majority | 11,167 | 27.8 | |||
Turnout | 40,225 | 78.4 | +0.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Enoch Powell | 25,318 | 60.0 | ||
Labour | Lewis Burgess | 16,898 | 40.0 | ||
Majority | 8,420 | 20.0 | |||
Turnout | 42,216 | 77.7 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Enoch Powell | 23,660 | 53.6 | +7.6 | |
Labour | Annie Llewelyn-Davies | 20,464 | 46.4 | +2.0 | |
Majority | 3,196 | 7.2 | |||
Turnout | 44,124 | 86.3 | -0.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Enoch Powell | 20,239 | 46.0 | ||
Labour | Herbert Hughes | 19,548 | 44.4 | ||
Liberal | William Frederick Hubert Rollason | 4,229 | 9.6 | ||
Majority | 691 | 1.6 | |||
Turnout | 44,016 | 87.2 | |||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
See also
- List of Members of Parliament for Wolverhampton
- List of Parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (county)
- List of Parliamentary constituencies in Wolverhampton
Notes and references
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- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- ↑ Wolverhampton South West, UKPollingReport
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- ↑ Peter Evans. "Immigrant girl will vote in despair—Powellism" (News). The Times (London). Friday, 5 June 1970. (57888), col C, p. 9.
External links
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- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
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- Parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (county)
- Parliamentary constituencies in Wolverhampton
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1950