Warley (UK Parliament constituency)

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Warley
Former borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Warley2007Constituency.svg
2010–2024 boundary of Warley in West Midlands
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Location of West Midlands within England
County West Midlands
Electorate 63,024 (December 2010) [1]
Major settlements Smethwick, Brandhall, Langley Green
1997–2024
SeatsOne
Created from Warley East, Warley West
Replaced by Smethwick

Warley was a constituency [n 1] in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. The constituency was represented since its creation in 1997 and until its abolition in 2024 by John Spellar, a member of the Labour Party. [n 2]

Contents

As a result of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was abolished. Subject to moderate boundary changes, including expansion to include most of the Blackheath ward, it was reformed as Smethwick , first contested at the 2024 general election. [2]

Constituency profile

The constituency had a wide range of housing on the gently hilly West Midlands terrain, with fast transport links to Birmingham, Dudley and Wolverhampton. Workless claimants, registered jobseekers, were in November 2012 significantly higher than the national average of 3.8%, at 7.7% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian however female unemployment, reflecting a central West Midlands pattern, perhaps with more women homemakers, unusually exceeded male unemployment at 10.1%. [3]

Boundaries

Warley (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of boundaries 1997-2024

Warley was one of four constituencies covering the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, covering the south and south-east of the borough. It covered much of the former County Borough of Warley, including the town of Smethwick as well as Brandhall and Langley Green.

It consisted of the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell wards of Abbey, Bristnall, Langley, Old Warley, St Paul's, Smethwick, and Soho and Victoria.

History

Creation and forerunners

The constituency was formed in 1997, and was for the most part the former Warley East constituency. John Spellar of the Labour Party represented Warley since 1997, having previously represented Warley West. Warley East and Warley West had been held by Labour since their creation in 1974. Minor parts of the seat around Oldbury had been in the quite marginal Labour-Conservative seat of Oldbury and Halesowen before 1974.

Results of winning party

The 2015 result made the seat the 34th-safest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority. [4] The elections have to date resulted in the Labour incumbent, Spellar, gaining more than 50% of votes cast.

Opposition parties

The candidates fielded by the Conservative Party have taken the runner-up position since the seat's creation. Third place has varied between two parties to date in the seat's history.

Turnout

Turnout has ranged from 54.1% in 2001 to 65.1% in 1997.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [5] Party
1997 John Spellar Labour
2024 Constituency abolished

Election results 1997-2024

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1997: Warley [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Spellar 24,813 63.8
Conservative Christopher Pincher 9,36224.1
Liberal Democrats Jeremy Pursehouse3,7779.7
Referendum Krishna Gamre9412.4
Majority15,45139.7
Turnout 38,89365.0
Labour win (new seat)

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2001: Warley [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Spellar 19,007 60.5 –3.3
Conservative Mark Pritchard 7,15722.8–1.3
Liberal Democrats Ron Cockings3,31510.6+0.9
Socialist Labour Harbhajan Dardi1,9366.2New
Majority11,85037.7–2.0
Turnout 31,41554.1–10.9
Labour hold Swing
General election 2005: Warley [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Spellar 17,462 54.4 –6.1
Conservative Karen Bissell7,31522.80.0
Liberal Democrats Tony Ferguson4,27713.3+2.7
BNP Simon Smith1,7615.5New
Socialist Labour Malcolm Connigale6372.0–4.2
UKIP David Matthews6352.0New
Majority10,14731.6–6.1
Turnout 32,08757.1+3.0
Labour hold Swing –3.0

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2010: Warley [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Spellar 20,240 52.9 –2.0
Conservative Jas Parmar9,48424.8+1.9
Liberal Democrats Edward Keating [10] 5,92915.5+2.3
UKIP Nigel Harvey2,6176.8+4.7
Majority10,75628.1–4.9
Turnout 38,27060.6+3.4
Labour hold Swing –1.9
General election 2015: Warley [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Spellar 22,012 58.2 +5.3
Conservative Tom Williams7,31019.3–5.5
UKIP Pete Durnell6,23716.5+9.7
Green Robert Buckman1,4653.9New
Liberal Democrats Catherine Smith8052.1–13.4
Majority14,70238.9+10.8
Turnout 37,82959.3–1.3
Labour hold Swing +5.4
General election 2017: Warley [12] [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Spellar 27,004 67.2 +9.0
Conservative Anthony Mangnall 10,52126.2+6.9
UKIP Darryl Magher1,3493.4–13.1
Liberal Democrats Bryan Manley-Green7771.9–0.2
Green Mark Redding5551.4–2.5
Majority16,48341.0+2.1
Turnout 40,20663.1+3.8
Labour hold Swing +9.0
General election 2019: Warley [14] [15]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Spellar 21,901 58.8 –8.4
Conservative Chandra Kanneganti10,39027.9+1.7
Brexit Party Michael Cooper2,4696.6New
Liberal Democrats Bryan Manley-Green1,5884.3+2.4
Green Kathryn Downs8912.4+1.0
Majority11,51130.9–10.1
Turnout 37,23959.7–3.4
Labour hold Swing –5.1

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
  2. ↑ 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.

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