Wolverhampton West (UK Parliament constituency)

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Wolverhampton West
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Wolverhampton West (UK Parliament constituency)
West Midlands - Wolverhampton West constituency.svg
Boundary of Wolverhampton West in West Midlands region
County West Midlands county
Current constituency
Created 2024
Member of Parliament TBC (TBC)
Seatsone
Created from Wolverhampton South West
1885–1950
Created from Wolverhampton
Replaced by Wolverhampton North East and Wolverhampton South West

Wolverhampton West is a borough constituency in the town of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands of England. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Contents

Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be re-established for the 2024 general election, formed largely from the current Wolverhampton South West constituency. [1]

History

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, when the former two-seat Wolverhampton constituency was divided into three single-member constituencies.

It was abolished for the 1950 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Wolverhampton South West constituency.

Boundaries

1885–1918

The original boundaries of the constituency were set in the sixth schedule of the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. The seat comprised five wards of the municipal borough of Wolverhampton (St. Mark's, St. Paul's, St. John's, St. George's and St. Matthew's) and the neighbouring Ettingshall area which lay outside the borough boundaries. [2]

1918-1950

Constituencies throughout Great Britain and Ireland were redrawn by the Representation of the People Act 1918. Wolverhampton's municipal boundaries had been enlarged and it had become a county borough in the period since 1885. The Wolverhampton West seat was redefined to reflect this, and was described as comprising nine wards of the county borough: Blakenhall, Dunstall, Graiseley, Merridale, Park, St. George's, St. John's, St. Mark's and St. Matthew's. [3]

Proposed

The re-established constituency will be composed of the following wards (as they existed on 1 December 2020):

The seat will comprise the whole of the current Wolverhampton South West constituency, with the addition of the Blakenhall ward from Wolverhampton South East and the Oxley ward from Wolverhampton North East.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
1885 Alfred Hickman Conservative
1886 Sir William Chichele Plowden Liberal
1892 Sir Alfred Hickman Conservative
1906 Thomas Frederick Richards Labour
1910 Sir Alfred Bird Conservative
1922 by-election Sir Robert Bird, Bt. Conservative
1929 William Brown 1 Labour
1929 Independent Labour
1931 Sir Robert Bird, Bt. Conservative
1945 Billy Hughes Labour
1950 constituency abolished: see Wolverhampton South West

1 Brown was elected in 1929, as a Labour Party candidate, but later sat as an "Independent Labour" MP. He sought re-election in 1931 and 1935 as an Independent Labour candidate, opposed in 1935 by an official Labour Party candidate, but lost on both occasions

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1885: Wolverhampton West [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Alfred Hickman 3,722 51.0
Liberal William Chichele Plowden 3,56949.0
Majority1532.0
Turnout 7,29186.9
Registered electors 8,391
Conservative win (new seat)
General election 1886: Wolverhampton West [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal William Chichele Plowden 3,706 50.8 +1.8
Conservative Alfred Hickman 3,58349.2−1.8
Majority1231.6N/A
Turnout 7,28986.90.0
Registered electors 8,391
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +1.8

Elections in the 1890s

General election 1892: Wolverhampton West [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Alfred Hickman 4,772 56.6 +7.4
Liberal William Chichele Plowden 3,65643.4−7.4
Majority1,11613.2N/A
Turnout 8,42889.4+2.5
Registered electors 9,424
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +7.4
General election 1895: Wolverhampton West [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Alfred Hickman 4,770 54.7 −1.9
Liberal George Rennie Thorne 3,94745.3+1.9
Majority8239.4−3.8
Turnout 8,71786.6−2.8
Registered electors 10,070
Conservative hold Swing −1.9

Elections in the 1900s

General election 1900: Wolverhampton West [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Alfred Hickman Unopposed
Conservative hold
General election 1906: Wolverhampton West [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Repr. Cmte. Thomas Frederick Richards 5,756 50.8 New
Conservative Alfred Hickman 5,58549.2N/A
Majority1711.6N/A
Turnout 11,34189.3N/A
Registered electors 12,707
Labour Repr. Cmte. gain from Conservative Swing N/A

Elections in the 1910s

General election January 1910: Wolverhampton West [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Alfred Bird 6,382 52.4 +3.2
Labour Thomas Frederick Richards 5,79047.6−3.2
Majority5924.8N/A
Turnout 12,17292.4+3.1
Registered electors 13,170
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +3.2
General election December 1910: Wolverhampton West [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Alfred Bird 5,925 51.3 −1.1
Liberal P. Lewis5,63148.7+1.1
Majority2942.6−2.2
Turnout 11,55687.7−4.7
Registered electors 13,170
Conservative hold Swing −1.1
General election 1918: Wolverhampton West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
C Unionist Alfred Bird 13,32956.8+5.5
Labour Alexander Walkden 10,15843.2N/A
Majority3,17113.6+11.0
Turnout 23,48763.3−24.4
Unionist hold Swing
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Elections in the 1920s

By-election, March 1922: Wolverhampton West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
C Unionist Robert Bird 16,79054.9−1.9
Labour Alexander Walkden 13,79945.1+1.9
Majority2,9919.8−3.8
Turnout 30,58980.0+16.7
Unionist hold Swing −1.9
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.
General election, November 1922: Wolverhampton West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Unionist Robert Bird 17,738 53.9 −2.9
Labour Alexander Walkden 15,19046.1+2.9
Majority2,5487.8−5.8
Turnout 32,92883.5+17.2
Unionist hold Swing −1.0
General election, 1923: Wolverhampton West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Unionist Robert Bird 15,990 50.4 −3.5
Labour William Brown 15,74949.6+3.5
Majority2410.8−7.0
Turnout 31,73979.5−4.0
Unionist hold Swing −3.5
General election, 1924: Wolverhampton West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Unionist Robert Bird 17,886 51.2 +0.8
Labour William Brown 17,04648.8−0.8
Majority8402.4+1.6
Turnout 34,93285.9+6.4
Unionist hold Swing +0.8
General election, 1929: Wolverhampton West [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour William Brown 21,103 49.1 +0.3
Unionist Robert Bird 17,23740.2−11.0
Liberal George H Roberts4,58010.7New
Majority3,8668.9N/A
Turnout 42,92084.1−1.8
Labour gain from Unionist Swing +6.8

Elections in the 1930s

General election, 1931: Wolverhampton West [6] Electorate: 51,355
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Robert Bird 26,181 60.5 +20.3
Independent Labour William Brown 17,09039.5−9.6
Majority9,09121.0N/A
Turnout 43,27184.3+0.2
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +15.0
General election, 1935: Wolverhampton West [6] Electorate 49,537
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Robert Bird 19,697 54.9 −5.6
Independent Labour William Brown 14,86741.4+0.9
Labour R. Lee1,3253.7New
Majority4,83013.5−7.5
Turnout 35,88972.4−11.9
Conservative hold Swing +3.3

Elections in the 1940s

General election, 1945: Wolverhampton West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Billy Hughes 21,186 59.9 +56.2
Conservative James Beattie14,17640.1−14.8
Majority7,01019.8N/A
Turnout 35,36274.8+2.4
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +7.4

Elections in the 2020s

General election 2024: Wolverhampton West [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Reform UK Donald Brookes [8]
Green Andrea Cantrill [9]
Workers Party Vikas Chopra [10]
Ind. Network Celia Hibbert
Liberal Democrats Phillip Howells
Labour Warinder Juss [11]
Conservative Mike Newton [12]
Independent Zahid Shah
Majority
Turnout

See also

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  2. ↑ "so much of the Parish of Bilston, as is known as Ettingshall New Village, being the portion which lies to the west of a line drawn along the centre of Ward Street, and is bounded on the south by Sedgley Parish, and on the north and west by the Municipal Borough of Wolverhampton". Sixth Schedule. Divisions Of Boroughs. Number, Names, Contents, and Boundaries Of Divisions. Redistribution Of Seats Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict.) Chapter 23.
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