Warley East (UK Parliament constituency)

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Warley East
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
County West Midlands
1974 (1974)–1997
SeatsOne
Created from Smethwick
Replaced by Warley

Warley East was a parliamentary constituency in the borough of Sandwell in the West Midlands of England.

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It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) 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.

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

ElectionMember [1] Party
Feb 1974 Andrew Faulds Labour
1997 constituency abolished: see Warley

Elections

Elections in the 1970s

February 1974 general election: Warley East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Andrew Faulds 24,78959.02
Conservative Susan Lewis-Smith17,20940.98
Majority7,57118.04
Turnout 41,99873.59
Labour win (new seat)
October 1974 general election: Warley East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Andrew Faulds 21,06554.55
Conservative P Holliday12,88833.37
Liberal Rodney Smith4,66412.08New
Majority8,17721.18
Turnout 38,61767.12
Labour hold Swing
1979 general election: Warley East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Andrew Faulds 21,33355.02
Conservative RK Jones16,23641.87
National Front J Worrall1,2043.11New
Majority5,09713.15
Turnout 38,77370.46
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1980s

1983 general election: Warley East [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Andrew Faulds 18,03645.55
Conservative Michael Whitby 14,64536.99
SDP Bryn Hamer6,69716.91New
Communist HS Randhawa2170.55New
Majority3,3918.56
Turnout 39,59568.93
Labour hold Swing
1987 general election: Warley East [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Andrew Faulds 19,42850.24
Conservative Anthony Antoniou13,84335.80
SDP Jonathan J. Jordan5,39613.96
Majority5,58514.44
Turnout 38,66769.41
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1990s

1992 general election: Warley East [4] [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Andrew Faulds 19,891 53.6 +3.4
Conservative Giles Marshall12,09732.6–3.2
Liberal Democrats Alan R.A. Harrod4,54712.3–1.7
Natural Law Alan T. Groucutt5611.5New
Majority7,79421.0+6.6
Turnout 37,09671.7+2.3
Labour hold Swing +3.3

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 1)
  2. ↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 December 2010.

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