West Bromwich East
2010 Results:
Conservative: 10961 (28.88%)
Labour: 17657 (46.53%)
Liberal Democrat: 4993 (13.16%)
BNP: 2205 (5.81%)
UKIP: 984 (2.59%)
English Democrat: 1150 (3.03%)
Majority: 6696 (17.65%)
Notional 2005 Results:
Labour: 20173 (55.6%)
Conservative: 8228 (22.7%)
Liberal Democrat: 4491 (12.4%)
Other: 3394 (9.4%)
Majority: 11945 (32.9%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 8089 (22.8%)
Labour: 19741 (55.6%)
Liberal Democrat: 4386 (12.4%)
BNP: 2329 (6.6%)
UKIP: 607 (1.7%)
Other: 360 (1%)
Majority: 11652 (32.8%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 8487 (26%)
Labour: 18250 (55.9%)
Liberal Democrat: 4507 (13.8%)
UKIP: 835 (2.6%)
Other: 585 (1.8%)
Majority: 9763 (29.9%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 10126 (24.4%)
Labour: 23710 (57.2%)
Liberal Democrat: 6179 (14.9%)
Referendum: 1472 (3.5%)
Majority: 13584 (32.7%)
Boundary changes:
Profile:
Current MP: Tom Watson (Labour) born 1967. Educated at King Charles I School Kidderminster and Hull University. Prior to his election was National Political Officer for the AEEU. First elected as MP for West Bromwich East 2001. Government whip 2004-2006. Briefly Under-Secretary of state at the MOD from May 2006 until he resigned in September the same year, calling on Tony Blair to step down as leader, in what was seen as an abortive Brownite coup. Parliamentary secretary at the Cabinet Office 2007-2009. In 2009 Watson was wrongly accused as having been involved in Damian McBride`s emails smaring Conservative politicans and received damages from the Mail on Sunday and the Sun (more information at They work for you)
Alistair Thompson (Conservative) Runs a media training consultancy. Portsmouth councillor.Tom Watson (Labour) born 1967. Educated at King Charles I School Kidderminster and Hull University. Prior to his election was National Political Officer for the AEEU. First elected as MP for West Bromwich East 2001. Government whip 2004-2006. Briefly Under-Secretary of state at the MOD from May 2006 until he resigned in September the same year, calling on Tony Blair to step down as leader, in what was seen as an abortive Brownite coup. Parliamentary secretary at the Cabinet Office 2007-2009. In 2009 Watson was wrongly accused as having been involved in Damian McBride`s emails smaring Conservative politicans and received damages from the Mail on Sunday and the Sun (more information at They work for you)
Ian Garrett (Liberal Democrat)Steve Grey (UKIP) Terry Lewin (BNP)Mark Cowles (English Democrat) 2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 81820
Male: 48.4%
Female: 51.6%
Under 18: 23.4%
Over 60: 23.1%
Born outside UK: 9.8%
White: 79.3%
Black: 4%
Asian: 14.3%
Mixed: 2%
Other: 0.4%
Christian: 70.2%
Hindu: 3.3%
Muslim: 3.2%
Sikh: 7.2%
Full time students: 2.9%
Graduates 16-74: 9.6%
No Qualifications 16-74: 45.5%
Owner-Occupied: 62.3%
Social Housing: 29.4% (Council: 26.3%, Housing Ass.: 3%)
Privately Rented: 3.8%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 20.5%
Both represent Newton ward which long had a full slate of LD councillors until they lost one in a by-election in 2008, a loss which was confirmed this May. The LDs also had all 3 seats in Great Barr for a long time but lost seats there in 2010 and 2011 so now have just one seat there which they will defend in 2012
Thanks to Tom Watson I’ve read up about Tommy Sheridan on Wikipedia and very entertaining it is too. I liked the bit about John Lynn who was jailed for 17 years for shooting an Ulster barman.
Boundary Commission proposing to completely abolish a West Bromwich seat and move the town centre to Smethwick. One of the daftest proposals of all.
Can we try and organise a campaign to retain a West Bromwich seat? Would need to include Wednesbury.
Labour have won every ward in Sandwell.
Shows that some of the bigger met boroughs are now becoming rock solid for Labour.
This was another result I was not expecting as I thought the tories were still relatively safe in the Charlemont ward which they can usually fall back on. But this proved not to be the case.
I very much doubt this will be the end of the tories in Sandwell, but this is only one of a number of areas that have demonstrated exactly how badly the Conservatives have done in the West Midlands this year.
From Wikipedia –
“On 10 May 2009 it was revealed that since being re-elected as MP in 2005, Watson claimed the maximum £4,800 allowance for food in a single year. “
“On 10 May 2009 it was revealed that since being re-elected as MP in 2005, Watson claimed the maximum £4,800 allowance for food in a single year. “
At least we know that claim wasn’t fictitious.
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Am I correct in thinking that Labour now have 68 of the 72 seats on Sandwell Council and that the 4 opposition Councillors are the Tories elected in Charlemont in 2010 & 2011, the Tory elected in Wednesbury North in 2010 and the Lib Dem elected in Newtown in 2010?
So if Labour achieve another clean sweep in 2014, they’ll have all but one seats on the Council.