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 |
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1974 | Andrew Faulds | Labour | |
| 1997 | constituency abolished: see Warley | ||
Elections
Elections in the 1990s
| General Election 1992: Warley East[2] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| 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 | |||
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.