Warley East was a parliamentary constituency in the borough of Sandwell in the West Midlands of England.
| Warley East | |
|---|---|
| Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
| County | West Midlands |
| 1974–1997 | |
| Seats | One |
| Created from | Smethwick |
| Replaced by | Warley |
It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) 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
editThe 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
edit1974–1983: 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
edit| Election | Member[1] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1974 | Andrew Faulds | Labour | |
| 1997 | constituency abolished: see Warley | ||
Elections
editElections in the 1970s
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Andrew Faulds | 24,789 | 59.02 | ||
| Conservative | Susan Lewis-Smith | 17,209 | 40.98 | ||
| Majority | 7,571 | 18.04 | |||
| Turnout | 41,998 | 73.59 | |||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Andrew Faulds | 21,065 | 54.55 | ||
| Conservative | P Holliday | 12,888 | 33.37 | ||
| Liberal | Rodney Smith | 4,664 | 12.08 | New | |
| Majority | 8,177 | 21.18 | |||
| Turnout | 38,617 | 67.12 | |||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Andrew Faulds | 21,333 | 55.02 | ||
| Conservative | RK Jones | 16,236 | 41.87 | ||
| National Front | J Worrall | 1,204 | 3.11 | New | |
| Majority | 5,097 | 13.15 | |||
| Turnout | 38,773 | 70.46 | |||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1980s
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Andrew Faulds | 18,036 | 45.55 | ||
| Conservative | Michael Whitby | 14,645 | 36.99 | ||
| SDP | Bryn Hamer | 6,697 | 16.91 | New | |
| Communist | HS Randhawa | 217 | 0.55 | New | |
| Majority | 3,391 | 8.56 | |||
| Turnout | 39,595 | 68.93 | |||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Andrew Faulds | 19,428 | 50.24 | ||
| Conservative | Anthony Antoniou | 13,843 | 35.80 | ||
| SDP | Jonathan J. Jordan | 5,396 | 13.96 | ||
| Majority | 5,585 | 14.44 | |||
| Turnout | 38,667 | 69.41 | |||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1990s
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Andrew Faulds | 19,891 | 53.6 | +3.4 | |
| Conservative | Giles Marshall | 12,097 | 32.6 | –3.2 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Alan R.A. Harrod | 4,547 | 12.3 | –1.7 | |
| Natural Law | Alan T. Groucutt | 561 | 1.5 | New | |
| Majority | 7,794 | 21.0 | +6.6 | ||
| Turnout | 37,096 | 71.7 | +2.3 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | +3.3 | |||
Notes and references
edit- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 1)
- ^ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 December 2010.