List of Parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (county)
The ceremonial county of West Midlands, England is divided into 28 parliamentary constituencies, each of which elect one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons. These constituencies were first implemented at the 2010 general election. All are borough constituencies except for Meriden, which is a county constituency.
Constituencies
Conservative † Labour ‡
Constituency[nb 1] | Electorate[1] | Majority[2][nb 2] | Member of Parliament[2] | Nearest opposition[2] | Map | ||
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Aldridge-Brownhills BC | 60,138 | 19,836 | Wendy Morton † | David Morgan ‡ | |||
Birmingham, Edgbaston BC | 68,828 | 5,614 | Preet Gill ‡ | Alex Yip † | |||
Birmingham, Erdington BC | 66,148 | 3,601 | Jack Dromey ‡ | Robert Alden † | |||
Birmingham, Hall Green BC | 80,283 | 28,508 | Tahir Ali ‡ | Penny-Anne O'Donnell † | |||
Birmingham, Hodge Hill BC | 78,295 | 28,655 | Liam Byrne ‡ | Akaal Sidhu † | |||
Birmingham, Ladywood BC | 74,912 | 28,582 | Shabana Mahmood ‡ | Mary Noone † | |||
Birmingham, Northfield BC | 73,694 | 1,640 | Gary Sambrook † | Richard Burden ‡ | |||
Birmingham, Perry Barr BC | 72,006 | 15,317 | Khalid Mahmood ‡ | Raaj Shamji † | |||
Birmingham, Selly Oak BC | 82.665 | 12,414 | Steve McCabe ‡ | Hannah Campbell † | |||
Birmingham, Yardley BC | 74,704 | 10,659 | Jess Phillips ‡ | Vincent Garrington † | |||
Coventry North East BC | 76,006 | 7,692 | Colleen Fletcher ‡ | Sophie Richards † | |||
Coventry North West BC | 75,247 | 208 | Taiwo Owatemi ‡ | Clare Golby † | |||
Coventry South BC | 70,979 | 401 | Zarah Sultana ‡ | Mattie Heaven † | |||
Dudley North BC | 61,936 | 11,533 | Marco Longhi † | Melanie Dudley † | |||
Dudley South BC | 60,731 | 15,565 | Mike Wood † | Lucy Caldicott ‡ | |||
Halesowen and Rowley Regis BC | 68,300 | 12,074 | James Morris † | Ian Cooper ‡ | |||
Meriden CC | 85,368 | 22,836 | Saqib Bhatti † | Teresa Beddis ‡ | |||
Solihull BC | 78,760 | 21,273 | Julian Knight † | Nick Stephens ‡ | |||
Stourbridge BC | 69,891 | 13,571 | Suzanne Webb † | Pete Lowe ‡ | |||
Sutton Coldfield BC | 75,638 | 19,272 | Andrew Mitchell † | Robert Knowles ‡ | |||
Walsall North BC | 67,177 | 11,965 | Eddie Hughes † | Gill Ogilvie ‡ | |||
Walsall South BC | 68,024 | 3,456 | Valerie Vaz ‡ | Gurjit Bains † | |||
Warley BC | 62,357 | 11,511 | John Spellar ‡ | Chandra Kanneganti † | |||
West Bromwich East BC | 62,046 | 1,593 | Nicola Richards † | Ibrahim Dogus ‡ | |||
West Bromwich West BC | 64,517 | 3,799 | Shaun Bailey † | James Cunningham ‡ | |||
Wolverhampton North East BC | 61,660 | 4,080 | Jane Stevenson † | Emma Reynolds ‡ | |||
Wolverhampton South East BC | 62,883 | 1,235 | Pat McFadden ‡ | Ahmed Ejaz † | |||
Wolverhampton South West BC | 60,534 | 1,661 | Stuart Anderson † | Eleanor Smith ‡ | |||
Boundary changes
At the 1997, 2001 and 2005 elections, the West Midlands was divided into 29 Parliamentary constituencies.
Proposed boundary changes
The Boundary Commission for England submitted their final proposals in respect of the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster Constituencies (the 2018 review) in September 2018. Although the proposals were immediately laid before Parliament they were not brought forward by the Government for approval. Accordingly, they did not come into effect for the 2019 election which took place on 12 December 2019, and which was contested using the constituency boundaries in place since 2010.
Under the terms of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, the Sixth Review was based on reducing the total number of MPs from 650 to 600 and a strict electoral parity requirement that the electorate of all constituencies should be within a range of 5% either side of the electoral quota.
On 24 March 2020, the Minister of State for the Cabinet Office, Chloe Smith, issued a written statement to Parliament setting out the Government's thinking with regard to parliamentary boundaries. They propose to bring forward primary legislation to remove the statutory obligation to implement the 2018 Boundary Review recommendations, as well as set the framework for future boundary reviews in time for the next review which is due to begin in early 2021 and report no later than October 2023. It is proposed that the number of constituencies now remains at the current level of 650, rather than being reduced to 600, while retaining the requirement that the electorate should be no more than +/- 5% from the electoral quota.[3]
Results history
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[4]
2019
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising West Midlands in the 2019 general election were as follows:
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
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Conservative | 527,912 | 44.4% | 14 | ||
Labour | 525,067 | 44.1% | 14 | ||
Liberal Democrats | 72,345 | 6.1% | 0 | 0 | |
Brexit | 29,853 | 2.5% | new | 0 | 0 |
Greens | 27,371 | 2.3% | 0 | 0 | |
Others | 7,690 | 0.6% | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 1,190,238 | 100.0 | 28 |
Percentage votes
Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
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Conservative | 41.7 | 42.6 | 42.1 | 29.8 | 30.6 | 29.5 | 33.5 | 33.1 | 39.9 | 44.4 |
Labour1 | 37.4 | 39.8 | 44.0 | 53.3 | 51.3 | 44.4 | 37.6 | 42.5 | 52.4 | 44.1 |
Liberal Democrat2 | 20.4 | 17.3 | 12.0 | 11.3 | 13.1 | 18.1 | 19.3 | 5.5 | 3.7 | 6.1 |
Green Party | - | * | * | * | * | * | 0.5 | 2.9 | 1.2 | 2.3 |
UKIP | - | - | - | * | * | * | 3.8 | 15.5 | 2.4 | * |
Brexit Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2.5 |
Other | 0.5 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 5.6 | 5.1 | 8.1 | 5.2 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 |
11997 - includes The Speaker, Betty Boothroyd who stood unopposed by the 3 main parties in West Bromwich West
21983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Seats
Year | Labour | Conservative | Liberal | Speaker | Total |
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2019 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
2017 | 20 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
2015 | 21 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
2010 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 28 |
2005 | 24 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 29 |
2001 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
1997 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 29 |
1992 | 21 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
1987 | 17 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
1983 | 18 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
Maps
- 1983
- 1987
- 1992
- 1997
- 2001
- 2005
- 2010
- 2015
- 2017
- 2019
Historical representation by party
A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.
Conservative Independent Independent Labour Labour Liberal Democrats Speaker
References
- Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (2020-01-28). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis". Cite journal requires
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(help) - "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 2020-04-25.
- "Update: Strengthening Democracy:Written statement - HCWS183". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
- Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (2020-04-17). "General election results from 1918 to 2019". Cite journal requires
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- BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
- The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.