West Bromwich East | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | West Midlands |
Electorate | 63,008 (December 2010) [1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1974 |
Member of Parliament | Nicola Richards (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | West Bromwich |
West Bromwich East is a constituency [n 1] that is represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Nicola Richards of the Conservative Party, who was first elected at the 2019 United Kingdom general election. [n 2]
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be subject to major boundary changes as a result of the realignment of the boundary between this seat and West Bromwich West, resulting in the loss of the Friar Park and Hateley Heath wards in exchange for the Oldbury and Tividale wards. The reconfigured seat will also include the Rowley ward from the (to be abolished) constituency of Halesowen and Rowley Regis and will be renamed West Bromwich , to be first contested at the next general election. [2]
Election | Member [3] | Party | |
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Feb 1974 | Peter Snape | Labour | |
2001 | Tom Watson | Labour | |
2019 | Nicola Richards | Conservative |
West Bromwich itself is the main town, with a programme of investment in 21st century apartments similar to nearby Birmingham. Since the recessions of the 1970s and early 1980s, West Bromwich East has suffered from high unemployment, and as a result of the current recession, which began in 2008, unemployment peaked at 14.3%. Only Birmingham, Ladywood nearby had higher unemployment rates in all of Britain. [4]
Workless claimants who were registered jobseekers stood at 7.6% of the population in November 2012; this was higher than the national average of 3.8%, based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian . However, this was lower than in West Bromwich West, with 8.1% of its constituents of working age in receipt of this benefit, which is seen as the lower gauge of the breadth of unemployment. [5]
In the 2016 EU referendum, the constituency voted to leave by 68%, putting it in the top 10% of constituencies in terms of preference for leave. [6]
West Bromwich East is one of four constituencies covering the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, covering the east and northeast of the borough. It includes most of the town of West Bromwich and the part of Great Barr that is in Sandwell.
2010–present: The Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell wards of Charlemont with Grove Vale, Friar Park, Great Barr with Yew Tree, Greets Green and Lyng, Hateley Heath, Newton, and West Bromwich Central.
1997–2010: The Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell wards of Charlemont, Friar Park, Great Barr, Greets Green and Lyng, Hateley Heath, Newton, and West Bromwich Central.
1983–1997: The Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell wards of Charlemont, Friar Park, Great Barr, Hateley Heath, Newton, and West Bromwich Central.
1974–1983: The County Borough of West Bromwich wards of Charlemont, Friar Park, Great Barr, Hateley Heath, Newton, Sandwell, and Tantany.
The seat formerly shared some wards with West Bromwich West: before 2010 instead placed in the latter seat were a small minority of 1,697 electors in the west of the wards of Friar Park and Greets Green and Lyng, also a negligible portion of Wednesbury South was contained in West Bromwich East. [n 3] [7]
The constituency was formed in 1974 and took its present wards in 1997 (small parts of which remained shared until 2010, see above).
The seat was held by the Labour Party for the first several decades of its existence, often with substantial majorities. At the 2019 general election, it fell to the Conservatives for the first time, on a swing in excess of 12%. [8]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Nicola Richards | 16,804 | 46.7 | 8.5 | |
Labour | Ibrahim Dogus | 15,211 | 42.3 | 15.7 | |
Brexit Party | Christian Lucas | 1,475 | 4.1 | New | |
Liberal Democrats | Andy Graham | 1,313 | 3.6 | 2.0 | |
Green | Mark Redding | 627 | 1.7 | 0.3 | |
Independent | George Galloway | 489 | 1.4 | New | |
Yeshua | Colin Rankine | 56 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 1,593 | 4.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 35,975 | 57.9 | 3.4 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | 12.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Tom Watson | 22,664 | 58.0 | 7.8 | |
Conservative | Emma Crane | 14,951 | 38.2 | 13.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Karen Trench | 625 | 1.6 | 0.4 | |
Green | John Macefield | 533 | 1.4 | 0.3 | |
Independent | Colin Rankine | 325 | 0.8 | New | |
Majority | 7,713 | 19.8 | 5.5 | ||
Turnout | 39,098 | 61.3 | 2.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | 2.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Tom Watson | 18,817 | 50.2 | 3.7 | |
Conservative | Olivia Seccombe | 9,347 | 24.9 | 4.0 | |
UKIP | Steve Latham | 7,949 | 21.2 | 18.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Flo Clucas | 751 | 2.0 | 11.2 | |
Green | Barry Lim | 628 | 1.7 | New | |
Majority | 9,470 | 25.3 | 7.7 | ||
Turnout | 37,492 | 58.9 | 1.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | 3.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Tom Watson | 17,657 | 46.5 | 9.2 | |
Conservative | Alistair Thompson | 10,961 | 28.9 | 6.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ian Garrett | 4,993 | 13.2 | 0.8 | |
BNP | Terry Lewin | 2,205 | 5.8 | 0.6 | |
English Democrat | Mark Cowles | 1,150 | 3.0 | New | |
UKIP | Steve Grey | 984 | 2.6 | 0.9 | |
Majority | 6,696 | 17.6 | 15.2 | ||
Turnout | 37,950 | 60.4 | 2.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | 7.7 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Tom Watson | 19,741 | 55.6 | 0.3 | |
Conservative | Rosemary Bromwich | 8,089 | 22.8 | 3.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ian Garrett | 4,386 | 12.4 | 1.4 | |
BNP | Carl Butler | 2,329 | 6.6 | New | |
UKIP | Steven Grey | 607 | 1.7 | 0.9 | |
Socialist Labour | Judith Sambrook | 200 | 0.6 | 1.2 | |
Independent | Margaret Macklin | 160 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 11,652 | 32.8 | 2.9 | ||
Turnout | 35,512 | 58.6 | 5.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | 1.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Tom Watson | 18,250 | 55.9 | 1.3 | |
Conservative | David McFarlane | 8,487 | 26.0 | 1.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ian Garrett | 4,507 | 13.8 | 1.1 | |
UKIP | Steven Gray | 835 | 2.6 | New | |
Socialist Labour | Satbir Johal | 585 | 1.8 | New | |
Majority | 9,763 | 29.9 | 2.9 | ||
Turnout | 32,664 | 53.4 | 12.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | 1.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Peter Snape | 23,710 | 57.2 | 10.0 | |
Conservative | Brian Matsell | 10,126 | 22.4 | 17.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Martyn G. Smith | 6,179 | 14.9 | 1.8 | |
Referendum | Graham Mulley | 1,472 | 3.5 | New | |
Majority | 13,584 | 32.8 | 26.3 | ||
Turnout | 41,487 | 65.4 | 10.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | 13.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Peter Snape | 19,913 | 46.2 | 3.6 | |
Conservative | Crispin Blunt | 17,100 | 39.7 | 0.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Martyn G. Smith | 5,630 | 13.1 | 4.0 | |
National Front | John Lord | 477 | 1.1 | New | |
Majority | 2,813 | 6.5 | 4.2 | ||
Turnout | 43,120 | 75.7 | 2.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | 2.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Peter Snape | 18,162 | 42.6 | +4.5 | |
Conservative | Roger Woodhouse | 17,179 | 40.3 | +2.9 | |
Liberal | Martyn G. Smith | 7,268 | 17.1 | -7.4 | |
Majority | 983 | 2.3 | +1.6 | ||
Turnout | 42,609 | 73.2 | +3.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Peter Snape | 15,894 | 38.1 | -8.9 | |
Conservative | Charles Cole | 15,596 | 37.4 | -4.8 | |
Liberal | Martyn G. Smith | 10,200 | 24.5 | +16.5 | |
Majority | 298 | 0.7 | -4.1 | ||
Turnout | 41,690 | 70.2 | -0.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Peter Snape | 19,279 | 47.0 | -3.5 | |
Conservative | J Wright | 17,308 | 42.2 | +10.8 | |
Liberal | Martyn G. Smith | 3,228 | 7.9 | -5.9 | |
National Front | C Allsopp | 1,175 | 2.9 | -1.4 | |
Majority | 1,971 | 4.8 | -14.3 | ||
Turnout | 40,990 | 71.1 | +3.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Peter Snape | 19,942 | 50.5 | -2.3 | |
Conservative | David Mellor | 12,413 | 31.4 | -8.8 | |
Liberal | JPT Hunt | 5,442 | 13.8 | New | |
National Front | G Bowen | 1,692 | 4.3 | -2.7 | |
Majority | 7,529 | 19.1 | +6.5 | ||
Turnout | 39,489 | 67.6 | -4.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Peter Snape | 21,895 | 52.8 | -2.4 | |
Conservative | DW Bell | 16,686 | 40.2 | -4.6 | |
National Front | Martin Webster | 2,907 | 7.0 | New | |
Majority | 5,209 | 12.6 | |||
Turnout | 41,488 | 71.9 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
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