Warley East (UK Parliament constituency)
Warley East | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | West Midlands |
1974–1997 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Warley |
Created from | Smethwick |
Warley East was a parliamentary constituency in the borough of Sandwell in the West Midlands of England.
It returned one Member of Parliament 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
Election | Member[1] | Party | |
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Feb 1974 | Andrew Faulds | Labour | |
1997 | constituency abolished: see Warley |
Elections
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Andrew Faulds | 19,891 | 53.6 | +3.4 | |
Conservative | Giles Marshall | 12,097 | 32.6 | −3.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | Alan R.A. Harrod | 4,547 | 12.3 | −1.7 | |
Natural Law | Alan T. Groucutt | 561 | 1.5 | +1.5 | |
Majority | 7,794 | 21.0 | +6.6 | ||
Turnout | 37,096 | 71.7 | +2.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +3.3 | |||
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Andrew Faulds | 19,428 | 50.24 | ||
Conservative | A Antoniou | 13,843 | 35.80 | ||
Social Democratic | JJ Jordan | 5,396 | 13.96 | ||
Majority | 5,585 | 14.44 | |||
Turnout | 69.41 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Andrew Faulds | 18,036 | 45.55 | ||
Conservative | M Whitby | 14,645 | 36.99 | ||
Social Democratic | B Hamer | 6,697 | 16.91 | ||
Communist | HS Randhawa | 217 | 0.55 | ||
Majority | 3,391 | 8.56 | |||
Turnout | 68.93 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Andrew Faulds | 21,333 | 55.02 | ||
Conservative | RK Jones | 16,236 | 41.87 | ||
National Front | J Worrall | 1,204 | 3.11 | ||
Majority | 5,097 | 13.15 | |||
Turnout | 70.46 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Andrew Faulds | 21,065 | 54.55 | ||
Conservative | P Holliday | 12,888 | 33.37 | ||
Liberal | R Smith | 4,664 | 12.08 | ||
Majority | 8,177 | 21.17 | |||
Turnout | 67.12 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Andrew Faulds | 24,789 | 59.02 | ||
Conservative | S Lewis-Smith | 17,209 | 40.98 | ||
Majority | 7,571 | 18.03 | |||
Turnout | 73.59 | ||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Notes and references
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 1)
- ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010.