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The ceremonial county of West Midlands , England, is divided into 28 parliamentary constituencies, each of which elect one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons. These constituencies were first implemented at the 2010 general election. All are borough constituencies except for Meriden, which is a county constituency.
Conservative † Labour ‡
Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to reduce the number of seats in West Midlands from 29 to 28, resulting in the abolition of Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath and leading to significant changes to other constituencies in the City of Birmingham.
See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
Following the abandonment of the Sixth Periodic Review (the 2018 review), the Boundary Commission for England formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021 and published their initial proposals on 8 June. [4]
The commission has proposed that the Black Country be combined with Staffordshire as a sub-region of the West Midlands Region, resulting in the creation of a new cross-county boundary constituency named Kingswinford and South Staffordshire, which would include part of the abolished constituency of Dudley South. As a consequence of knock-on changes, Dudley North would be renamed Dudley, Halesowen and Rowley Regis renamed Halesowen, Warley renamed Smethwick and Rowley Regis, and Wolverhampton South West renamed Wolverhampton West. The three Borough of Walsall constituencies of Aldridge-Brownhills, Walsall North and Walsall South would be replaced by two constituencies named Bloxwich and Brownhills, and Walsall. [5] [6]
The following constituencies are proposed:
Containing wards from Birmingham
Containing wards from Coventry
Containing wards from Dudley
Containing wards from Sandwell
Containing wards from Solihull
Containing wards from Walsall
Containing wards from Wolverhampton
Revised proposals will be published in late 2022 and the final report will be submitted in June 2023.
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019 [7]
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising West Midlands in the 2019 general election were as follows:
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 527,912 | 44.4% | 4.5% | 14 | 6 |
Labour | 525,067 | 44.1% | 8.3% | 14 | 6 |
Liberal Democrats | 72,345 | 6.1% | 2.4% | 0 | 0 |
Brexit | 29,853 | 2.5% | new | 0 | 0 |
Greens | 27,371 | 2.3% | 1.1% | 0 | 0 |
Others | 7,690 | 0.6% | 2.2% | 0 | 0 |
Total | 1,190,238 | 100.0 | 28 |
Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 41.7 | 42.6 | 42.1 | 29.8 | 30.6 | 29.5 | 33.5 | 33.1 | 39.9 | 44.4 |
Labour 1 | 37.4 | 39.8 | 44.0 | 53.3 | 51.3 | 44.4 | 37.6 | 42.5 | 52.4 | 44.1 |
Liberal Democrat 2 | 20.4 | 17.3 | 12.0 | 11.3 | 13.1 | 18.1 | 19.3 | 5.5 | 3.7 | 6.1 |
Green Party | - | * | * | * | * | * | 0.5 | 2.9 | 1.2 | 2.3 |
UKIP | - | - | - | * | * | * | 3.8 | 15.5 | 2.4 | * |
Brexit Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2.5 |
Other | 0.5 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 5.6 | 5.1 | 8.1 | 5.2 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 |
11997 - includes The Speaker, Betty Boothroyd who stood unopposed by the 3 main parties in West Bromwich West
21983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Year | Labour | Conservative | Liberal Democrat 1 | Speaker | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2019 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
2017 | 20 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
2015 | 21 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
2010 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 28 |
2005 | 24 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 29 |
2001 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
1997 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 29 |
1992 | 21 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
1987 | 17 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
1983 | 18 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.
Conservative Independent Independent Labour Labour Liberal Democrats Speaker
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