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Warley

2010 Results:
Conservative: 9484 (24.78%)
Labour: 20240 (52.89%)
Liberal Democrat: 5929 (15.49%)
UKIP: 2617 (6.84%)
Majority: 10756 (28.11%)

Notional 2005 Results:
Labour: 19224 (54%)
Conservative: 8204 (23.1%)
Liberal Democrat: 4868 (13.7%)
Other: 3288 (9.2%)
Majority: 11020 (31%)

Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 7315 (22.8%)
Labour: 17462 (54.4%)
Liberal Democrat: 4277 (13.3%)
BNP: 1761 (5.5%)
UKIP: 635 (2%)
Other: 637 (2%)
Majority: 10147 (31.6%)

2001 Result
Conservative: 7157 (22.8%)
Labour: 19007 (60.5%)
Liberal Democrat: 3315 (10.6%)
Other: 1936 (6.2%)
Majority: 11850 (37.7%)

1997 Result
Conservative: 9362 (24.1%)
Labour: 24813 (63.8%)
Liberal Democrat: 3777 (9.7%)
Referendum: 941 (2.4%)
Majority: 15451 (39.7%)

Boundary changes:

Profile:

portraitCurrent MP: John Spellar(Labour) (more information at They work for you)

2010 election candidates:
portraitJas Parmar (Conservative) Bedford councillor.
portraitJohn Spellar(Labour) (more information at They work for you)
portraitEdward Keating (Liberal Democrat)
portraitNigel Harvey (UKIP)

2001 Census Demographics

Total 2001 Population: 84088
Male: 47.9%
Female: 52.1%
Under 18: 25.2%
Over 60: 20.8%
Born outside UK: 14.5%
White: 70.2%
Black: 5.8%
Asian: 20.6%
Mixed: 2.9%
Other: 0.5%
Christian: 61.7%
Hindu: 1.5%
Muslim: 7.4%
Sikh: 11%
Full time students: 3.8%
Graduates 16-74: 12.7%
No Qualifications 16-74: 43.5%
Owner-Occupied: 62.6%
Social Housing: 26.3% (Council: 21.9%, Housing Ass.: 4.5%)
Privately Rented: 6.6%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 18.6%

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59 Responses to “Warley”

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  1. Andy JS

    The Liberals put up a candidate in Smethwick in 1970 but they only polled 747 votes or 2.43%.

    October 15th, 2010 at 11:01 am
  2. Harry Porter

    What were the wards of the old seats of Warley East and Warley West from 1974 to 1997?

    October 15th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
  3. Pete Whitehead

    From 1983 to 1997: Abbey, Bristnall, Old Warley, St Pauls, Smethwick, Soho & Victoria
    I think the same wards from 1974 to 1983 but there were ward boundary changes in 1982

    October 15th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
  4. Pete Whitehead

    Warley West was made up of: Blackheath, Cradley Heath & Old Hill, Langley, Oldbury, Rowley and Tividale.
    In 1997 Langley was added to Warley East which was renamed Warley. Oldbury and Tividale were added to West Bromwich West which in turm lost Greets Green & Lyng to West Bromwich East and the other three wards were merged with four Dudley wards to form Halesowen & Rowley Regis

    October 15th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
  5. H.Hemmelig

    Which put Rowley Regis in a Tory seat for the first time in decades in 2010.

    When was the last time Rowley Regis had a Tory MP?

    October 15th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
  6. Pete Whitehead

    Rowley Regis was part of the Kingswinford seat before 1950 and the last Conservative MP for that seat was defeated in 1935. Parts of this area of Sandwell though (basically Blackheath) were represented by a Tory MP when John Stokes won Oldbury & Halesowen in 1970

    October 15th, 2010 at 2:55 pm
  7. Andy JS

    The shortest serving MP since the war was Alfred Dobbs who was elected MP for Smethwick on 26th July 1945 but was killed in a car crash the next day.

    November 19th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
  8. Andy JS

    Happy 84th birthday to Peter Archer, Baron Archer of Sandwell, Labour MP for Rowley Regis & Tipton 1966-74 and Warley West 1974-92.

    November 21st, 2010 at 12:21 am
  9. Barnaby JL Marder

    He was for a time Solicitor-General in the 1970s Labour government.

    November 21st, 2010 at 10:03 am
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