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Parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (county)

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The ceremonial county of West Midlands, England, is divided into 27 parliamentary constituencies - 25 borough and 2 county constituencies, one of which crosses the boundary with Staffordshire. Each constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons. These constituencies were first implemented at the 2024 general election.

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Constituencies

  Conservative   Labour   Reform UK ¤   Workers Party of Britain   Independent ¥

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Boundary Changes

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2024

See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.

For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine the West Midlands county with Staffordshire as a sub-region of the West Midlands Region, resulting in the creation of a new cross-county boundary constituency named Kingswinford and South Staffordshire, which includes part of the abolished constituency of Dudley South. As a consequence of knock-on changes and the need to reduce the overall number of seats in the Black Country portion of the West Midlands county by one, Dudley North, Halesowen and Rowley Regis, Wolverhampton South West, Warley, West Bromwich East, West Bromwich West, Walsall North and Walsall South were abolished and replaced by Dudley, Halesowen, Wolverhampton West, Smethwick, Tipton and Wednesbury, West Bromwich, and Walsall and Bloxwich.[1][2][3]

Although the number of seats covering the cities of Birmingham and Coventry and the Borough of Solihull remained the same, there were a number of name changes due to revised boundaries:[4]

The following constituencies resulted from the boundary review:

Containing wards from Birmingham

Containing wards from Coventry

Containing wards from Dudley

Containing wards from Sandwell

Containing wards from Solihull

Containing wards from Walsall

Containing wards from Wolverhampton

2010

Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to reduce the number of seats in West Midlands from 29 to 28, resulting in the abolition of Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath and leading to significant changes to other constituencies in the City of Birmingham.

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Results history

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Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[5]

2024

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising West Midlands in the 2024 general election were as follows:[nb 4]

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Percentage votes

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11997 - includes The Speaker, Betty Boothroyd who stood unopposed by the 3 main parties in West Bromwich West

21983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

Seats

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11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance 2Includes The Speaker seeking re-election.

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Historical representation by party

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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.

1983 to 2010

  Conservative   Independent Labour   Labour   Liberal Democrats   Speaker

2010 to present

  Conservative   Independent   Labour   Liberal Democrats

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