Warley East (UK Parliament constituency)

Warley East
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	West Midlands
1974 (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
	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

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Warley East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	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

General Election 1983: Warley East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	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

General Election 1979: Warley East
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
Majority			5,097	13.15
Turnout				70.46
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election, October 1974: Warley East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	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

General Election, February 1974: Warley East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	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.

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