Wolverhampton West | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | West Midlands county |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | Warinder Juss (Labour) |
Seats | one |
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 city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands of England which was re-established for the 2024 general election following the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies and which is formed largely from the former Wolverhampton South West constituency. It has been represented in the House of Commons since 2024 by Warinder Juss.
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. [1]
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. [2]
The re-established constituency is composed of the following wards (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
The seat comprises 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.
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.
Election | Member | Party | |
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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 | Member | Party | |
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2024 | Warinder Juss | Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Alfred Hickman | 3,722 | 51.0 | ||
Liberal | William Chichele Plowden | 3,569 | 49.0 | ||
Majority | 153 | 2.0 | |||
Turnout | 7,291 | 86.9 | |||
Registered electors | 8,391 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | William Chichele Plowden | 3,706 | 50.8 | +1.8 | |
Conservative | Alfred Hickman | 3,583 | 49.2 | −1.8 | |
Majority | 123 | 1.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 7,289 | 86.9 | 0.0 | ||
Registered electors | 8,391 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +1.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Alfred Hickman | 4,772 | 56.6 | +7.4 | |
Liberal | William Chichele Plowden | 3,656 | 43.4 | −7.4 | |
Majority | 1,116 | 13.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 8,428 | 89.4 | +2.5 | ||
Registered electors | 9,424 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +7.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Alfred Hickman | 4,770 | 54.7 | −1.9 | |
Liberal | George Rennie Thorne | 3,947 | 45.3 | +1.9 | |
Majority | 823 | 9.4 | −3.8 | ||
Turnout | 8,717 | 86.6 | −2.8 | ||
Registered electors | 10,070 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Alfred Hickman | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Repr. Cmte. | Thomas Frederick Richards | 5,756 | 50.8 | New | |
Conservative | Alfred Hickman | 5,585 | 49.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 171 | 1.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 11,341 | 89.3 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 12,707 | ||||
Labour Repr. Cmte. gain from Conservative | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Alfred Bird | 6,382 | 52.4 | +3.2 | |
Labour | Thomas Frederick Richards | 5,790 | 47.6 | −3.2 | |
Majority | 592 | 4.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 12,172 | 92.4 | +3.1 | ||
Registered electors | 13,170 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +3.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Alfred Bird | 5,925 | 51.3 | −1.1 | |
Liberal | P. Lewis | 5,631 | 48.7 | +1.1 | |
Majority | 294 | 2.6 | −2.2 | ||
Turnout | 11,556 | 87.7 | −4.7 | ||
Registered electors | 13,170 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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C | Unionist | Alfred Bird | 13,329 | 56.8 | +5.5 |
Labour | Alexander Walkden | 10,158 | 43.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,171 | 13.6 | +11.0 | ||
Turnout | 23,487 | 63.3 | −24.4 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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C | Unionist | Robert Bird | 16,790 | 54.9 | −1.9 |
Labour | Alexander Walkden | 13,799 | 45.1 | +1.9 | |
Majority | 2,991 | 9.8 | −3.8 | ||
Turnout | 30,589 | 80.0 | +16.7 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | −1.9 | |||
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Robert Bird | 17,738 | 53.9 | −2.9 | |
Labour | Alexander Walkden | 15,190 | 46.1 | +2.9 | |
Majority | 2,548 | 7.8 | −5.8 | ||
Turnout | 32,928 | 83.5 | +17.2 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | −1.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Robert Bird | 15,990 | 50.4 | −3.5 | |
Labour | William Brown | 15,749 | 49.6 | +3.5 | |
Majority | 241 | 0.8 | −7.0 | ||
Turnout | 31,739 | 79.5 | −4.0 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | −3.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Robert Bird | 17,886 | 51.2 | +0.8 | |
Labour | William Brown | 17,046 | 48.8 | −0.8 | |
Majority | 840 | 2.4 | +1.6 | ||
Turnout | 34,932 | 85.9 | +6.4 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | +0.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | William Brown | 21,103 | 49.1 | +0.3 | |
Unionist | Robert Bird | 17,237 | 40.2 | −11.0 | |
Liberal | George H Roberts | 4,580 | 10.7 | New | |
Majority | 3,866 | 8.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 42,920 | 84.1 | −1.8 | ||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | +6.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Robert Bird | 26,181 | 60.5 | +20.3 | |
Independent Labour | William Brown | 17,090 | 39.5 | −9.6 | |
Majority | 9,091 | 21.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 43,271 | 84.3 | +0.2 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +15.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Robert Bird | 19,697 | 54.9 | −5.6 | |
Independent Labour | William Brown | 14,867 | 41.4 | +0.9 | |
Labour | R. Lee | 1,325 | 3.7 | New | |
Majority | 4,830 | 13.5 | −7.5 | ||
Turnout | 35,889 | 72.4 | −11.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Billy Hughes | 21,186 | 59.9 | +56.2 | |
Conservative | James Beattie | 14,176 | 40.1 | −14.8 | |
Majority | 7,010 | 19.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 35,362 | 74.8 | +2.4 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +7.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Warinder Juss [8] | 19,331 | 44.3 | −1.3 | |
Conservative | Mike Newton [9] | 11,463 | 26.3 | −21.1 | |
Reform UK | Donald Brookes [10] | 6,078 | 13.9 | +11.4 | |
Green | Andrea Cantrill [11] | 2,550 | 5.8 | +5.6 | |
Ind. Network | Celia Hibbert | 1,395 | 3.2 | New | |
Liberal Democrats | Phillip Howells | 1,376 | 3.2 | −1.2 | |
Independent | Zahid Shah | 888 | 2.0 | New | |
Workers Party | Vikas Chopra [12] | 576 | 1.3 | New | |
Majority | 7,868 | 18.0 | |||
Turnout | 43,657 | 56.1 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +9.9 |
Previous results are notional.
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