Walsall and Bloxwich | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | West Midlands county |
Major settlements | Walsall and Bloxwich |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | Valerie Vaz (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Walsall North and Walsall South |
Walsall and Bloxwich is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [1] Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election. [2] The constituency is currently held by Valerie Vaz of the Labour Party, who held the previous Walsall South constituency prior to the boundary changes.
The constituency is composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
It is formed from the majority of the Walsall North and Walsall South seats, which were both abolished. It comprises the following wards: [4]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Valerie Vaz | 12,514 | 33.5 | −10.8 | |
Independent | Aftab Nawaz | 7,600 | 20.4 | +20.4 | |
Reform UK | Elaine Williams | 7,293 | 19.5 | +18.3 | |
Conservative | Shannon Lloyd | 6,679 | 17.9 | −31.2 | |
Green | Sadat Hussain | 2,288 | 6.1 | +4.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Patrick Stillman | 817 | 2.2 | −0.7 | |
Majority | 4,914 | 13.2 | |||
Rejected ballots | 141 | 0.4 | |||
Turnout | 37,332 | 49.8 | |||
Registered electors | 74,951 | ||||
Labour win (new seat) |
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