Warley is a constituency in the House of Commons of the

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. The constituency was established in 1997, and has been represented since that date by

John Spellar John Francis Spellar (born 5 August 1947) is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Warley, formerly Warley West, since 1992. A member of the Labour Party, he previously represented Birmingham Northfield from 1 ...

, a member of the Labour Party.

Members of Parliament

Constituency profile

The constituency has a wide range of housing on the gently hilly West Midlands terrain, with fast transport links to

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, Dudley and Wolverhampton. Workless claimants, registered jobseekers, were in November 2012 significantly higher than the national average of 3.8%, at 7.7% of the population based on a statistical compilation by ''

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'' however female unemployment, reflecting a central West Midlands pattern, perhaps with more women homemakers, unusually exceeded male unemployment at 10.1%.

Boundaries

Warley is one of four constituencies covering the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, covering the south and south-east of the borough. It covers much of the former

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of Warley, including the town of

Smethwick Smethwick () is an industrial town in Sandwell, West Midlands, England. It lies west of Birmingham city centre. Historically it was in Staffordshire. In 2019, the ward of Smethwick had an estimated population of 15,246, while the wider b ...

as well as

Brandhall Brandhall is a suburb of Oldbury in the south of the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, bordering Birmingham and Halesowen. The development of the area commenced during the 1930s with the construction of several hundred private h ...

and Langley Green. It consists of The Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell wards of Abbey, Bristnall, Langley, Old Warley, St Paul's, Smethwick, and Soho and Victoria.

History

;Creation and forerunners The constituency was formed in 1997, and is for the most part the former Warley East constituency.

of the Labour Party has represented Warley since 1997, having previously represented Warley West. Warley East and Warley West had been held by Labour since their creation in 1974. Minor parts of the seat around Oldbury had been in the quite marginal Labour-Conservative seat of Oldbury and Halesowen before 1974. ;Results of winning party The 2015 result made the seat the 34th-safest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority. The elections have to date resulted in the Labour incumbent, Spellar, gaining more than 50% of votes cast. ;Opposition parties The candidates fielded by the

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have taken the runner-up position since the seat's creation. Third place has varied between two parties to date in the seat's history. ;Turnout Turnout has ranged from 54.1% in 2001 to 65.1% in 1997.

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Elections in the 2000s

Elections in the 1990s

Notes

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Warley (Uk Parliament Constituency) Parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (county) Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1997 Politics of Sandwell