Parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (region)
The region[nb 1] of West Midlands is divided into 57 parliamentary constituencies which is made up of 28 borough constituencies and 29 county constituencies. Since the general election of July 2024, 38 are represented by Labour MPs,15 by Conservative MPs, 2 by Liberal Democrat MPs, and 1 by an independent MP.
Constituencies
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† Conservative ‡ Labour ¤ Liberal Democrat
Proposed boundary changes
[edit]See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
Following the abandonment of the Sixth Periodic Review (the 2018 review), the Boundary Commission for England formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021. The Commission calculated that the number of seats to be allocated to the West Midlands region would be reduced by 2, from 59 to 57.[5] Initial proposals were published on 8 June 2021 and, following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 8 November 2022. The final proposals were published on 28 June 2023.
Under the proposals, the following constituencies for the region came into effect at the 2024 general election:[6]
Constituency | Electorate | Ceremonial county | Local authority |
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Aldridge-Brownhills | 73,122 | West Midlands | Walsall |
Birmingham Edgbaston | 71,354 | West Midlands | Birmingham |
Birmingham Erdington | 76,856 | West Midlands | Birmingham |
Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley | 75,781 | West Midlands | Birmingham |
Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North | 76,922 | West Midlands | Birmingham / Solihull |
Birmingham Ladywood | 76,585 | West Midlands | Birmingham |
Birmingham Northfield | 73,483 | West Midlands | Birmingham |
Birmingham Perry Barr | 74,048 | West Midlands | Birmingham |
Birmingham Selly Oak | 76,285 | West Midlands | Birmingham |
Birmingham Yardley | 71,912 | West Midlands | Birmingham |
Bromsgrove | 75,305 | Worcestershire | Bromsgrove |
Burton and Uttoxeter | 75,460 | Staffordshire | East Staffordshire |
Cannock Chase | 75,582 | Staffordshire | Cannock Chase |
Coventry East | 73,389 | West Midlands | Coventry |
Coventry North West | 73,431 | West Midlands | Coventry |
Coventry South | 70,998 | West Midlands | Coventry |
Droitwich and Evesham | 74,345 | Worcestershire | Wychavon |
Dudley | 71,083 | West Midlands | Dudley |
Halesowen | 69,907 | West Midlands | Dudley / Sandwell |
Hereford and South Herefordshire | 71,125 | Herefordshire | Herefordshire |
Kenilworth and Southam | 71,541 | Warwickshire | Rugby / Stratford-on-Avon / Warwick |
Kingswinford and South Staffordshire | 71,896 | Staffordshire / West Midlands | Dudley / South Staffordshire |
Lichfield | 74,942 | Staffordshire | East Staffordshire / Lichfield |
Meriden and Solihull East | 74,211 | West Midlands | Solihull |
Newcastle-under-Lyme | 70,025 | Staffordshire | Newcastle-under-Lyme |
North Herefordshire | 70,894 | Herefordshire | Herefordshire |
North Shropshire | 77,052 | Shropshire | Shropshire |
North Warwickshire and Bedworth | 70,245 | Warwickshire | North Warwickshire / Nuneaton and Bedworth |
Nuneaton | 70,335 | Warwickshire | North Warwickshire / Nuneaton and Bedworth |
Redditch | 69,921 | Worcestershire | Redditch / Wychavon |
Rugby | 72,603 | Warwickshire | Nuneaton and Bedworth / Rugby |
Shrewsbury | 75,139 | Shropshire | Shropshire |
Smethwick | 71,195 | West Midlands | Sandwell |
Solihull West and Shirley | 70,537 | West Midlands | Solihull |
South Shropshire | 77,034 | Shropshire | Shropshire |
Stafford | 70,537 | Staffordshire | Newcastle-under-Lyme / Stafford |
Staffordshire Moorlands | 70,113 | Staffordshire | Staffordshire Moorlands |
Stoke-on-Trent Central | 70,550 | Staffordshire | Stoke-on-Trent |
Stoke-on-Trent North | 69,821 | Staffordshire | Newcastle-under-Lyme / Stoke-on-Trent |
Stoke-on-Trent South | 69,831 | Staffordshire | Stafford / Staffordshire Moorlands / Stoke-on-Trent |
Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge | 70,701 | Staffordshire | South Staffordshire / Stafford |
Stourbridge | 69,840 | West Midlands | Dudley |
Stratford-on-Avon | 72,388 | Warwickshire | Stratford-on-Avon |
Sutton Coldfield | 74,584 | West Midlands | Birmingham |
Tamworth | 73,644 | Staffordshire | Lichfield / Tamworth |
Telford | 70,768 | Shropshire | Telford and Wrekin |
The Wrekin | 76,143 | Shropshire | Shropshire / Telford and Wrekin |
Tipton and Wednesbury | 73,820 | West Midlands | Dudley / Sandwell |
Walsall and Bloxwich | 74,886 | West Midlands | Walsall |
Warwick and Leamington | 75,440 | Warwickshire | Warwick |
West Bromwich | 72,208 | West Midlands | Sandwell |
West Worcestershire | 76,638 | Worcestershire | Malvern Hills / Wychavon |
Wolverhampton North East | 70,449 | West Midlands | Walsall / Wolverhampton |
Wolverhampton South East | 75,685 | West Midlands | Walsall / Wolverhampton |
Wolverhampton West | 75,592 | West Midlands | Wolverhampton |
Worcester | 73,928 | Worcestershire | Worcester |
Wyre Forest | 77,015 | Worcestershire | Wyre Forest |
Historical Representation by Party
[edit]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.
1885 to 1918
[edit]Warwickshire
[edit]Conservative Liberal Speaker Liberal-Labour Labour Liberal Unionist
Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 1892 | 93 | 94 | 1895 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 1900 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 1906 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 1910 (jan) | 1910 (dec) |
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Nuneaton | Jasper Johns | John Dugdale | Francis Newdegate | William Johnson | → | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby | Henry Peyton Cobb | Richard Verney | Corrie Grant | John Baird | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Stratford-upon-Avon | William Compton | Frederick Townsend | Algernon Freeman-Mitford | Victor Milward | Philip Foster | Thomas Kincaid-Smith | Philip Foster | ||||||||||||||||||||
Warwick and Leamington | Arthur Peel | Alfred Lyttelton | Thomas Berridge | Ernest Pollock |
Herefordshire and Worcestershire
[edit]Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 1892 | 93 | 94 | 1895 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 1900 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 1906 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 1910 (jan) | 1910 (dec) |
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Bewdley | Edmund Lechmere | Alfred Baldwin | Stanley Baldwin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Droitwich | John Corbett | → | Richard Martin | Cecil Harmsworth | John Lyttelton | ||||||||||||||||||||||
East Worcestershire | George Hastings | → | Austen Chamberlain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Evesham | Richard Temple | Edmund Lechmere | Charles Long | Bolton Eyres-Monsell | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Hereford | Joseph Pulley | Joseph Bailey | William Grenfell | Charles Cooke | John Arkwright | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Kidderminster | John Brinton | Augustus Godson | Edmund Barnard | Eric Knight | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Leominster | Thomas Duckham | James Rankin | Edmund Lamb | James Rankin | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Ross | Michael Biddulph | → | Percy Clive | Alan Coulston Gardner | Percy Clive | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Worcester | George Allsopp | George Henry Williamson | Edward Goulding |
Staffordshire
[edit]Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 1892 | 93 | 94 | 1895 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 1900 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 1906 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 1910 (jan) | 1910 (dec) |
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Burton | Michael Bass | Sydney Evershed | Robert Ratcliff | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hanley | William Woodall | Arthur Heath | Enoch Edwards | → | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Leek | Charles Crompton | Harry Davenport | Henry Fulford | Robert Pearce | Arthur Heath | Robert Pearce | |||||||||||||||||||||
Lichfield | John Swinburne | Leonard Darwin | Henry Fulford | Courtenay Warner | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Newcastle-under-Lyme | William Shepherd Allen | Douglas Coghill | William Allen | Alfred Seale Haslam | Josiah Wedgwood | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Stafford | Charles McLaren | Thomas Salt | Charles Shaw | Walter Essex | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Staffordshire North West | George Leveson-Gower | Justinian Edwards-Heathcote | James Heath | Alfred Billson | Albert Stanley | → | |||||||||||||||||||||
Staffordshire West | Hamar Bass | → | Alexander Henderson | Henry McLaren | George Lloyd | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Stoke on Trent | William Leatham Bright | George Leveson-Gower | Douglas Coghill | → | John Ward |
Shropshire
[edit]Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 1892 | 93 | 94 | 1895 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 1900 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 1906 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 1910 (jan) | 1910 (dec) |
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Ludlow | Jasper More | → | Rowland Hunt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Newport | Robert Bickersteth | William Kenyon-Slaney | Beville Stanier | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Oswestry | Stanley Leighton | George Ormsby-Gore | Allan Heywood Bright | William Bridgeman | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Shrewsbury | Arthur Peel | Henry David Greene | Clement Lloyd Hill | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wellington | Alexander Brown | → | Charles Henry |
2024 results
[edit]The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising the West Midlands region in the 2024 general election were as follows:[7]
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2019 |
Seats | Change from 2019 (actual) |
Change from 2019 (notional) |
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Labour | 824,433 | 34.0 | ![]() |
38 | ![]() |
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Conservative | 669,368 | 27.6 | ![]() |
15 | ![]() |
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Reform UK | 439,278 | 18.1 | ![]() |
0 | ![]() |
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Liberal Democrats | 214,493 | 8.8 | ![]() |
2 | ![]() |
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Green | 159,140 | 6.5 | ![]() |
1 | ![]() |
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Others | 119,145 | 5.0 | ![]() |
1 | ![]() |
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Total | 2,425,857 | 100.0 | 57 | ![]() |
Results history
[edit]Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019
Percentage votes
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Key:
- CON - Conservative Party, including National Liberal Party up to 1966
- LAB - Labour Party, including Labour and Co-operative party
- LIB - Liberal Party up to 1979; SDP-Liberal Alliance 1983 & 1987; Liberal Democrats from 1992
- UKIP - UK Independence Party 2010 to 2017 (included in Other up to 2005 and from 2019)
- REF - Reform UK (2019 - Brexit Party)
- GRN - Green Party of England and Wales (included in Other up to 2005)
Seats
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Key:
- CON - Conservative Party, including National Liberal Party up to 1966
- LAB - Labour Party, including Labour and Co-operative party
- LIB - Liberal Party up to 1979; SDP-Liberal Alliance 1983 & 1987; Liberal Democrats from 1992
- GRN - Green Party of England and Wales
- OTH - 1945 - Independent (William Brown); 1997 - Speaker (Betty Boothroyd); 2001 & 2005 - Independent Community & Health Concern (Dr Richard Taylor); 2024 - Independent (Ayoub Khan)
See also
[edit]- List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies
- List of parliamentary constituencies in Herefordshire and Worcestershire
- List of parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire
- List of parliamentary constituencies in Staffordshire
- List of parliamentary constituencies in Warwickshire
- List of parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands
Notes
[edit]- ^ See NUTS 1 statistical regions of England
- ^ BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
- ^ The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.
References
[edit]- ^ Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (28 January 2020). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis".
- ^ a b c "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
- ^ "Birmingham Erdington Parliamentary by-election". Birmingham City Council. 3 March 2022. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
- ^ a b McGuinness, Alan (17 December 2021). "North Shropshire: Liberal Democrats pull off shock win as Tory by-election defeat piles further pressure on Boris Johnson". Sky News. Archived from the original on 17 December 2021. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
- ^ "2023 Review". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
- ^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume two: Constituency names, designations and composition – West Midlands". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
- ^ "General election 2024 results". House of Commons Library. 26 July 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2024.