Wolverhampton West was a borough constituency in the town of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands of England. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Wolverhampton West | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1885–1950 | |
Seats | one |
Created from | Wolverhampton |
Replaced by | Wolverhampton North East and Wolverhampton South West |
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be re-established for the next general election, formed largely from the current Wolverhampton South West constituency.[1]
The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, when the former two-seat Wolverhampton constituency was divided into three single-member constituencies.
It was abolished for the 1950 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Wolverhampton South West constituency.
The original boundaries of the constituency were set in the sixth schedule of the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. The seat comprised five wards of the municipal borough of Wolverhampton (St. Mark's, St. Paul's, St. John's, St. George's and St. Matthew's) and the neighbouring Ettingshall area which lay outside the borough boundaries.[2]
Constituencies throughout Great Britain and Ireland were redrawn by the Representation of the People Act 1918. Wolverhampton's municipal boundaries had been enlarged and it had become a county borough in the period since 1885. The Wolverhampton West seat was redefined to reflect this, and was described as comprising nine wards of the county borough: Blakenhall, Dunstall, Graiseley, Merridale, Park, St. George's, St. John's, St. Mark's and St. Matthew's.[3]
The re-established constituency will be composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
The seat will comprise the whole of the current Wolverhampton South West constituency, with the addition of the Blakenhall ward from Wolverhampton South East and the Oxley ward from Wolverhampton North East.
Election | Member | Party | |
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1885 | Alfred Hickman | Conservative | |
1886 | Sir William Chichele Plowden | Liberal | |
1892 | Sir Alfred Hickman | Conservative | |
1906 | Thomas Frederick Richards | Labour | |
1910 | Sir Alfred Bird | Conservative | |
1922 by-election | Sir Robert Bird, Bt. | Conservative | |
1929 | William Brown 1 | Labour | |
1929 | Independent Labour | ||
1931 | Sir Robert Bird, Bt. | Conservative | |
1945 | Billy Hughes | Labour | |
1950 | constituency abolished: see Wolverhampton South West |
1 Brown was elected in 1929, as a Labour Party candidate, but later sat as an "Independent Labour" MP. He sought re-election in 1931 and 1935 as an Independent Labour candidate, opposed in 1935 by an official Labour Party candidate, but lost on both occasions
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Alfred Hickman | 3,722 | 51.0 | ||
Liberal | William Chichele Plowden | 3,569 | 49.0 | ||
Majority | 153 | 2.0 | |||
Turnout | 7,291 | 86.9 | |||
Registered electors | 8,391 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | William Chichele Plowden | 3,706 | 50.8 | +1.8 | |
Conservative | Alfred Hickman | 3,583 | 49.2 | −1.8 | |
Majority | 123 | 1.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 7,289 | 86.9 | 0.0 | ||
Registered electors | 8,391 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +1.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Alfred Hickman | 4,772 | 56.6 | +7.4 | |
Liberal | William Chichele Plowden | 3,656 | 43.4 | −7.4 | |
Majority | 1,116 | 13.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 8,428 | 89.4 | +2.5 | ||
Registered electors | 9,424 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +7.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Alfred Hickman | 4,770 | 54.7 | −1.9 | |
Liberal | George Rennie Thorne | 3,947 | 45.3 | +1.9 | |
Majority | 823 | 9.4 | −3.8 | ||
Turnout | 8,717 | 86.6 | −2.8 | ||
Registered electors | 10,070 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Alfred Hickman | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Repr. Cmte. | Thomas Frederick Richards | 5,756 | 50.8 | New | |
Conservative | Alfred Hickman | 5,585 | 49.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 171 | 1.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 11,341 | 89.3 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 12,707 | ||||
Labour Repr. Cmte. gain from Conservative | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Alfred Bird | 6,382 | 52.4 | +3.2 | |
Labour | Thomas Frederick Richards | 5,790 | 47.6 | −3.2 | |
Majority | 592 | 4.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 12,172 | 92.4 | +3.1 | ||
Registered electors | 13,170 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +3.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Alfred Bird | 5,925 | 51.3 | −1.1 | |
Liberal | P. Lewis | 5,631 | 48.7 | +1.1 | |
Majority | 294 | 2.6 | −2.2 | ||
Turnout | 11,556 | 87.7 | −4.7 | ||
Registered electors | 13,170 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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C | Unionist | Alfred Bird | 13,329 | 56.8 | +5.5 |
Labour | Alexander Walkden | 10,158 | 43.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,171 | 13.6 | +11.0 | ||
Turnout | 23,487 | 63.3 | −24.4 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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C | Unionist | Robert Bird | 16,790 | 54.9 | −1.9 |
Labour | Alexander Walkden | 13,799 | 45.1 | +1.9 | |
Majority | 2,991 | 9.8 | −3.8 | ||
Turnout | 30,589 | 80.0 | +16.7 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | −1.9 | |||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Robert Bird | 17,738 | 53.9 | −2.9 | |
Labour | Alexander Walkden | 15,190 | 46.1 | +2.9 | |
Majority | 2,548 | 7.8 | −5.8 | ||
Turnout | 32,928 | 83.5 | +17.2 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | −1.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Robert Bird | 15,990 | 50.4 | −3.5 | |
Labour | William Brown | 15,749 | 49.6 | +3.5 | |
Majority | 241 | 0.8 | −7.0 | ||
Turnout | 31,739 | 79.5 | −4.0 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | −3.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Robert Bird | 17,886 | 51.2 | +0.8 | |
Labour | William Brown | 17,046 | 48.8 | −0.8 | |
Majority | 840 | 2.4 | +1.6 | ||
Turnout | 34,932 | 85.9 | +6.4 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | +0.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | William Brown | 21,103 | 49.1 | +0.3 | |
Unionist | Robert Bird | 17,237 | 40.2 | −11.0 | |
Liberal | George H Roberts | 4,580 | 10.7 | New | |
Majority | 3,866 | 8.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 42,920 | 84.1 | −1.8 | ||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | +6.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Robert Bird | 26,181 | 60.5 | +20.3 | |
Independent Labour | William Brown | 17,090 | 39.5 | −9.6 | |
Majority | 9,091 | 21.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 43,271 | 84.3 | +0.2 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +15.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Robert Bird | 19,697 | 54.9 | −5.6 | |
Independent Labour | William Brown | 14,867 | 41.4 | +0.9 | |
Labour | R. Lee | 1,325 | 3.7 | New | |
Majority | 4,830 | 13.5 | −7.5 | ||
Turnout | 35,889 | 72.4 | −11.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Billy Hughes | 21,186 | 59.9 | +56.2 | |
Conservative | James Beattie | 14,176 | 40.1 | −14.8 | |
Majority | 7,010 | 19.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 35,362 | 74.8 | +2.4 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +7.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Reform UK | Donald Brookes[7] | ||||
Labour | Warinder Juss[8] | ||||
Conservative | Mike Newton[9] | ||||
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