Warley | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | West Midlands |
Electorate | 63,024 (December 2010) [1] |
Major settlements | Smethwick, Brandhall, Langley Green |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of Parliament | John Spellar (Labour Party (UK)) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Warley East, Warley West |
Warley is a constituency [n 1] in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. The constituency was established in 1997, and has been represented since that date by John Spellar, a member of the Labour Party. [n 2]
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be expanded to include most of the Blackheath ward. The constituency name will be abolished and replaced by the re-established constituency of Smethwick , to be first contested at the next general election. [2]
Election | Member [3] | Party | |
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1997 | John Spellar | Labour |
The constituency has 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%. [4]
Warley is one of four constituencies covering the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, covering the south and south-east of the borough. It covers much of the former County Borough of Warley, including the town of Smethwick as well as Brandhall and Langley Green.
It consists of The Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell wards of Abbey, Bristnall, Langley, Old Warley, St Paul's, Smethwick, and Soho and Victoria.
The constituency was formed in 1997, and is for the most part the former Warley East constituency. John Spellar of the Labour Party has 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.
The 2015 result made the seat the 34th-safest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority. [5] The elections have to date resulted in the Labour incumbent, Spellar, gaining more than 50% of votes cast.
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 has ranged from 54.1% in 2001 to 65.1% in 1997.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Spellar | 21,901 | 58.8 | –8.4 | |
Conservative | Chandra Kanneganti | 10,390 | 27.9 | +1.7 | |
Brexit Party | Michael Cooper | 2,469 | 6.6 | New | |
Liberal Democrats | Bryan Manley-Green | 1,588 | 4.3 | +2.4 | |
Green | Kathryn Downs | 891 | 2.4 | +1.0 | |
Majority | 11,511 | 30.9 | –10.1 | ||
Turnout | 37,239 | 59.7 | –3.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –5.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Spellar | 27,004 | 67.2 | +9.0 | |
Conservative | Anthony Mangnall | 10,521 | 26.2 | +6.9 | |
UKIP | Darryl Magher | 1,349 | 3.4 | –13.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Bryan Manley-Green | 777 | 1.9 | –0.2 | |
Green | Mark Redding | 555 | 1.4 | –2.5 | |
Majority | 16,483 | 41.0 | +2.1 | ||
Turnout | 40,206 | 63.1 | +3.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +9.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Spellar | 22,012 | 58.2 | +5.3 | |
Conservative | Tom Williams | 7,310 | 19.3 | –5.5 | |
UKIP | Pete Durnell | 6,237 | 16.5 | +9.7 | |
Green | Robert Buckman | 1,465 | 3.9 | New | |
Liberal Democrats | Catherine Smith | 805 | 2.1 | –13.4 | |
Majority | 14,702 | 38.9 | +10.8 | ||
Turnout | 37,829 | 59.3 | –1.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +5.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Spellar | 20,240 | 52.9 | –2.0 | |
Conservative | Jas Parmar | 9,484 | 24.8 | +1.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Edward Keating [12] | 5,929 | 15.5 | +2.3 | |
UKIP | Nigel Harvey | 2,617 | 6.8 | +4.7 | |
Majority | 10,756 | 28.1 | –4.9 | ||
Turnout | 38,270 | 60.6 | +3.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –1.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Spellar | 17,462 | 54.4 | –6.1 | |
Conservative | Karen Bissell | 7,315 | 22.8 | 0.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tony Ferguson | 4,277 | 13.3 | +2.7 | |
BNP | Simon Smith | 1,761 | 5.5 | New | |
Socialist Labour | Malcolm Connigale | 637 | 2.0 | –4.2 | |
UKIP | David Matthews | 635 | 2.0 | New | |
Majority | 10,147 | 31.6 | –6.1 | ||
Turnout | 32,087 | 57.1 | +3.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –3.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Spellar | 19,007 | 60.5 | –3.3 | |
Conservative | Mark Pritchard | 7,157 | 22.8 | –1.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ron Cockings | 3,315 | 10.6 | +0.9 | |
Socialist Labour | Harbhajan Dardi | 1,936 | 6.2 | New | |
Majority | 11,850 | 37.7 | –2.0 | ||
Turnout | 31,415 | 54.1 | –10.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Spellar | 24,813 | 63.8 | ||
Conservative | Christopher Pincher | 9,362 | 24.1 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Jeremy Pursehouse | 3,777 | 9.7 | ||
Referendum | Krishna Gamre | 941 | 2.4 | ||
Majority | 15,451 | 39.7 | |||
Turnout | 38,893 | 65.0 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
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