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Not to be confused with List of parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (region).

The ceremonial county of West Midlands, England, is divided into 26 parliamentary constituencies, each of which elect one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons. These constituencies were first implemented at the 2024 general election.

Constituencies[edit]

Further information: 2024 United Kingdom general election

  Conservative †   Labour ‡   Reform UK ¤   Workers Party of Britain ♣   Independent ¥

Constituency[nb 1] Electorate Majority[nb 2] Member of Parliament Nearest opposition Map
Aldridge-Brownhills BC 70,867 4,231 Wendy Morton †   Luke Davies ‡
Birmingham Edgbaston BC 71,787 8,368   Preet Gill ‡ Ashvir Sangha †
Birmingham Erdington BC 77,463 7,019   Paulette Hamilton ‡ Jack Brookes ¤
Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley BC 76,936 5,656   Tahir Ali ‡   Shakeel Afsar ¥
Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North BC 77,737 1,566   Liam Byrne ‡   James Giles ♣
Birmingham Ladywood BC 83,693 3,421   Shabana Mahmood ‡   Akhmed Yakoob ¥
Birmingham Northfield BC 73,694 5,389   Laurence Turner ‡   Gary Sambrook †
Birmingham Perry Barr BC 76,350 507   Ayoub Khan ¥   Khalid Mahmood ‡
Birmingham Selly Oak BC 75,678 11,537   Alistair Carns ‡   Simon Phipps †
Birmingham Yardley BC 73,203 693   Jess Phillips ‡   Jody McIntyre ♣
Coventry East BC 75,801 11,623   Mary Creagh ‡   Iddrisu Sufyan ¤
Coventry North West BC 75,057 11,174   Taiwo Owatemi ‡   Tom Mercer †
Coventry South BC 76,262 10,201   Zarah Sultana ‡   Mattie Heaven †
Dudley BC 70,151 1,900   Sonia Kumar †   Marco Longhi †
Halesowen BC 68,549 4,364   Alex Ballinger ‡   James Morris †
Meriden and Solihull East CC 73,659 4,584   Saqib Bhatti †   Sarah Alan ‡
Smethwick BC 72,863 11,188   Gurinder Josan ‡   Pete Durnell ¤
Solihull West and Shirley BC 71,813 4,620 Neil Shastri-Hurst †   Deirdre Fox ‡
Stourbridge BC 68,310 3,073   Cat Eccles ‡   Suzanne Webb †
Sutton Coldfield BC 74,080 2,543   Andrew Mitchell †   Rob Pocock ‡
Tipton and Wednesbury BC 74,100 3,385   Antonia Bance ‡   Shaun Bailey †
Walsall and Bloxwich BC 74,951 4,914   Valerie Vaz ‡   Aftab Nawaz ¥
West Bromwich BC 74,026 9,554   Sarah Coombes ‡   Will Goodhand †
Wolverhampton North East BC 70,715 5,422   Sureena Brackenridge ‡   Jane Stevenson †
Wolverhampton South East BC 77,473 9,188   Pat McFadden ‡   Carl Hardwick ¤
Wolverhampton West BC 77,851 7,868   Warinder Juss ‡   Mike Newton †

2010 boundary changes[edit]

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.

Former boundaries[edit]

Former name Boundaries 1997-2010
  1. Aldridge-Brownhills BC
  2. Birmingham, Edgbaston BC
  3. Birmingham, Erdington BC
  4. Birmingham, Hall Green BC
  5. Birmingham, Hodge Hill BC
  6. Birmingham, Ladywood BC
  7. Birmingham, Northfield BC
  8. Birmingham, Perry Barr BC
  9. Birmingham, Selly Oak BC
  10. Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath BC
  11. Birmingham, Yardley BC
  12. Coventry North East BC
  13. Coventry North West BC
  14. Coventry South BC
  1. Dudley North BC
  2. Dudley South BC
  3. Halesowen and Rowley Regis BC
  4. Meriden CC
  5. Solihull BC
  6. Stourbridge BC
  7. Sutton Coldfield BC
  8. Walsall North BC
  9. Walsall South BC
  10. Warley BC
  11. West Bromwich East BC
  12. West Bromwich West BC
  13. Wolverhampton North East BC
  14. Wolverhampton South East BC
  15. Wolverhampton South West BC
Parliamentary constituencies in West Midlands
Parliamentary constituencies in West Midlands

Current boundaries[edit]

Current name Boundaries 2010–present
  1. Aldridge-Brownhills BC
  2. Birmingham, Edgbaston BC
  3. Birmingham, Erdington BC
  4. Birmingham, Hall Green BC
  5. Birmingham, Hodge Hill BC
  6. Birmingham, Ladywood BC
  7. Birmingham, Northfield BC
  8. Birmingham, Perry Barr BC
  9. Birmingham, Selly Oak BC
  10. Birmingham, Yardley BC
  11. Coventry North East BC
  12. Coventry North West BC
  13. Coventry South BC
  14. Dudley North BC
  1. Dudley South BC
  2. Halesowen and Rowley Regis BC
  3. Meriden CC
  4. Solihull BC
  5. Stourbridge BC
  6. Sutton Coldfield BC
  7. Walsall North BC
  8. Walsall South BC
  9. Warley BC
  10. West Bromwich East BC
  11. West Bromwich West BC
  12. Wolverhampton North East BC
  13. Wolverhampton South East BC
  14. Wolverhampton South West BC
Proposed Parliamentary constituencies in West Midlands
Proposed Parliamentary constituencies in West Midlands

Proposed boundary changes[edit]

See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.

Following the abandonment of the Sixth Periodic Review (the 2018 review), the Boundary Commission for England formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021.[1] Initial proposals were published on 8 June 2021 and, following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 8 November 2022. The final proposals were published on 28 June 2023.

The commission has proposed that the Black Country be combined 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 will include 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 by one, Dudley North, Halesowen and Rowley Regis, Wolverhampton South West, Warley, West Bromwich East, West Bromwich West, Walsall North and Walsall South will all be abolished and replaced by Dudley, Halesowen, Wolverhampton West, Smethwick, Tipton and Wednesbury, West Bromwich, and Walsall and Bloxwich.[2][3][4]

Although the number of seats covering the cities of Birmingham and Coventry and the Borough of Solihull remains the same, there are a number of proposed name changes due to revised boundaries:[5]

The following constituencies are proposed:

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

Results history[edit]

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[6]

2019[edit]

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising West Midlands in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Party Votes % Change from 2017 Seats Change from 2017
Conservative 527,912 44.4% Increase4.5% 14 Increase6
Labour 525,067 44.1% Decrease8.3% 14 Decrease6
Liberal Democrats 72,345 6.1% Increase2.4% 0 0
Brexit 29,853 2.5% new 0 0
Greens 27,371 2.3% Increase1.1% 0 0
Others 7,690 0.6% Decrease2.2% 0 0
Total 1,190,238 100.0 28

Birmingham[edit]

Party Votes % Change from 2017 Seats Change from 2017
Labour 252,014 56.4% Decrease6.2% 8 Decrease1
Conservative 139,477 31.2% Increase0.8% 2 Increase1
Liberal Democrats 28,454 6.4% Increase1.7% 0 0
Brexit 12,444 2.8% new 0 0
Greens 10,094 2.3% Increase0.8% 0 0
Others 4,678 1.0% Steady 0 0
Total 447,161 100.0 10

Coventry[edit]

Party Votes % Change from 2017 Seats Change from 2017
Labour 63,874 46.5% Decrease10.8% 3 0
Conservative 55,573 40.5% Increase5.6% 0 0
Liberal Democrats 8,176 6.0% Increase3.3% 0 0
Brexit 5,498 4.0% new 0 0
Greens 3,676 2.7% Increase1.4% 0 0
Others 435 0.3% Decrease3.6% 0 0
Total 137,232 100.0 3

Dudley[edit]

Party Votes % Change from 2017 Seats Change from 2017
Conservative 47,769 65.5% Increase14.1% 2 0
Labour 32,241 28.5% Decrease12.9% 0 0
Liberal Democrats 2,838 3.8% Increase2.6% 0 0
Greens 1,251 2.2% Increase1.4% 0 0
Others 0 0.0% Decrease5.1% 0 0
Total 73,260 100.0 2

Walsall[edit]

Party Votes % Change from 2017 Seats Change from 2017
Conservative 40,750 51.6% Increase8.6% 1 0
Labour 32,241 40.8% Decrease9.8% 1 0
Liberal Democrats 2,838 3.6% Increase2.2% 0 0
Brexit 1,660 2.1% new 0 0
Greens 1,251 1.6% new 0 0
Others 288 0.4% Decrease4.6% 0 0
Total 79,028 100.0 2

Wolverhampton[edit]

Party Votes % Change from 2017 Seats Change from 2017
Conservative 51,873 47.7% Increase7.7% 2 Increase2
Labour 47,367 43.5% Decrease9.6% 1 Decrease2
Brexit 4,476 4.1% new 0 0
Liberal Democrats 4,020 3.7% Increase2.1% 0 0
Greens 1,124 1.0% Decrease0.3% 0 0
Others 0 0.0% Decrease3.9% 0 0
Total 108,860 100.0 3

Percentage votes[edit]

Election year 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019
Conservative 41.7 42.6 42.1 29.8 30.6 29.5 33.5 33.1 39.9 44.4
Labour1 37.4 39.8 44.0 53.3 51.3 44.4 37.6 42.5 52.4 44.1
Liberal Democrat2 20.4 17.3 12.0 11.3 13.1 18.1 19.3 5.5 3.7 6.1
Green Party - * * * * * 0.5 2.9 1.2 2.3
UKIP - - - * * * 3.8 15.5 2.4 *
Brexit Party - - - - - - - - - 2.5
Other 0.5 0.3 1.9 5.6 5.1 8.1 5.2 0.6 0.4 0.6

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[edit]

Year Labour Conservative Liberal

Democrat1

Independents2 Total
2024 21 4 0 1 26
2019 14 14 0 0 28
2017 20 8 0 0 28
2015 21 7 0 0 28
2010 19 7 2 0 28
2005 24 3 2 0 29
2001 25 4 0 0 29
1997 24 4 0 1 29
1992 21 10 0 0 31
1987 17 14 0 0 31
1983 18 13 0 0 31

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

Maps[edit]

  • 1983
    1983
  • 1987
    1987
  • 1992
    1992
  • 1997
    1997
  • 2001
    2001
  • 2005
    2005
  • 2010
    2010
  • 2015
    2015
  • 2017
    2017
  • 2019
    2019

Historical representation by party[edit]

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[edit]

  Conservative   Independent Labour   Labour   Liberal Democrats   Speaker

Constituency 1983 1987 1992 92 94 1997 00 2001 04 2005 06
Coventry South West Butcher
Aldridge-Brownhills Shepherd
Meriden Mills Spelman
Solihull Grieve Taylor Burt
Sutton Coldfield Fowler Mitchell
Halesowen & Stourbridge / H & Rowley Regis (1997) Stokes Hawksley Heal
Stourbridge Shipley Waltho
Dudley West / Dudley South (1997) Blackburn Pearson
Wolverhampton South West Budgen J. Jones Marris
Birmingham Edgbaston Jill Knight Stuart
Birmingham Hall Green Eyre Hargreaves McCabe
Birmingham Northfield King Burden
Birmingham Selly Oak Beaumont-Dark L. Jones
Birmingham Yardley Bevan E. Morris Hemming
Wolverhampton North East R. Short Hicks Purchase
Dudley East / Dudley North (1997) Gilbert Cranston Austin
West Bromwich East Snape Watson
West Bromwich West Boothroyd → A. Bailey
Walsall North Winnick
Birmingham Perry Barr Rooker K. Mahmood
Birmingham Erdington Corbett Simon
Birmingham Hodge Hill Davis Byrne
Birmingham Ladywood C. Short →
Coventry North East Park J. Hughes Ainsworth
Coventry North West Robinson
Coventry SE / Coventry S (1997) Nellist Cunningham
Walsall South George
Warley West / Warley (1997) Archer Spellar
Wolverhampton South East Edwards Turner McFadden
Birmingham Small Heath / B Sparkbrook & S H (1997) Howell Godsiff
Birmingham Sparkbrook Hattersley
Warley East Faulds
Constituency 1983 1987 1992 92 94 1997 00 2001 04 2005 06

2010 to present[edit]

  Conservative   Independent   Labour   Liberal Democrats

Constituency 2010 2015 2017 19 2019 22 2024
Aldridge-Brownhills Shepherd Morton
Birmingham Edgbaston Stuart Gill
Birmingham Erdington Dromey Hamilton
Birmingham Hall Green / B. H. G. & Moseley ('24) Godsiff Ali
Birmingham Hodge Hill / B. H. H. & Solihull N ('24) Byrne
Birmingham Ladywood S. Mahmood
Birmingham Northfield Burden Sambrook Turner
Birmingham Perry Barr K. Mahmood Khan
Birmingham Selly Oak McCabe Carns
Birmingham Yardley Hemming Phillips
Coventry North East / Coventry East (2024) Ainsworth Fletcher Creagh
Coventry North West Robinson Owatemi
Coventry South Cunningham Sultana
Dudley North / Dudley (2024) Austin → Longhi Kumar
Dudley South Kelly Wood N/A
Halesowen & Rowley Regis / Halesowen (2024) J. Morris Ballinger
Meriden / Meriden & Solihull East (2024) Spelman Bhatti
Solihull / Solihull West & Shirley (2024) Burt Knight → Shastri-Hurst
Stourbridge James Webb Eccles
Sutton Coldfield Mitchell
Walsall North Winnick E. Hughes N/A
Walsall South / Walsall & Bloxwich (2024) Vaz
Warley / Smethwick (2024) Spellar Josan
West Bromwich East / West Bromwich (2024) Watson Richards Coombes
West Bromwich W / Tipton & Wednesbury (2024) A. Bailey S. Bailey Bance
Wolverhampton North East Reynolds Stevenson Brackenridge
Wolverhampton South East McFadden
Wolverhampton SW / Wolverhampton W (2024) Uppal Marris Smith Anderson Juss
Constituency 2010 2015 2017 19 2019 22 2024

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "2023 Review". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  2. ^ Andrews, Mark. "Seats set to be lost under boundary shake-up in Black Country and Staffordshire". www.expressandstar.com. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  3. ^ Boundary changes: Big shake-up for Black Country and Staffordshire MPs in plans Express and Star
  4. ^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. paras 1294-1313. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  5. ^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. paras 1226-1250. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  6. ^ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  1. ^ BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
  2. ^ The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.
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