Warley East (UK Parliament constituency)
Warley East | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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County | West Midlands |
1974–1997 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Warley |
Warley East was a parliamentary constituency in the borough of Sandwell in the West Midlands of England.
It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the February 1974 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Warley constituency.
The largest town in the constituency was Smethwick.
Contents
History
The constituency's only MP for its 23-year existence was the actor Andrew Faulds, previously Labour MP for the former constituency of Smethwick since 1966.
Boundaries
1974-1983: The County Borough of Warley wards of Abbey, Bearwood, Brandhall, Bristnall, Sandwell, Soho, Uplands, and Victoria.
1983-1997: The Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell wards of Abbey, Bristnall, Old Warley, St Paul's, Smethwick, and Soho and Victoria.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[1] | Party | |
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Feb 1974 | Andrew Faulds | Labour | |
1997 | constituency abolished: see Warley |
Elections
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Andrew Faulds | 19,891 | 53.6 | +3.4 | |
Conservative | Giles Marshall | 12,097 | 32.6 | −3.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | Alan R.A. Harrod | 4,547 | 12.3 | −1.7 | |
Natural Law | Alan T. Groucutt | 561 | 1.5 | +1.5 | |
Majority | 7,794 | 21.0 | +6.6 | ||
Turnout | 37,096 | 71.7 | +2.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +3.3 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Andrew Faulds | 19,428 | 50.24 | ||
Conservative | A Antoniou | 13,843 | 35.80 | ||
Social Democratic | JJ Jordan | 5,396 | 13.96 | ||
Majority | 5,585 | 14.44 | |||
Turnout | 69.41 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Andrew Faulds | 18,036 | 45.55 | ||
Conservative | M Whitby | 14,645 | 36.99 | ||
Social Democratic | B Hamer | 6,697 | 16.91 | ||
Communist | HS Randhawa | 217 | 0.55 | ||
Majority | 3,391 | 8.56 | |||
Turnout | 68.93 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Andrew Faulds | 21,333 | 55.02 | ||
Conservative | RK Jones | 16,236 | 41.87 | ||
National Front | J Worrall | 1,204 | 3.11 | ||
Majority | 5,097 | 13.15 | |||
Turnout | 70.46 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Andrew Faulds | 21,065 | 54.55 | ||
Conservative | P Holliday | 12,888 | 33.37 | ||
Liberal | R Smith | 4,664 | 12.08 | ||
Majority | 8,177 | 21.17 | |||
Turnout | 67.12 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Andrew Faulds | 24,789 | 59.02 | ||
Conservative | S Lewis-Smith | 17,209 | 40.98 | ||
Majority | 7,571 | 18.03 | |||
Turnout | 73.59 | ||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Notes and references
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 1)[self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- Use dmy dates from January 2011
- Politics of Sandwell
- Parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (county) (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1974
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1997