Smethwick | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | West Midlands county |
Major settlements | Smethwick, Brandhall, Langley Green, Blackheath |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | TBC (TBC) |
Seats | one |
Created from | Warley |
1918–February 1974 | |
Seats | one |
Created from | Handsworth |
Replaced by | Warley East |
Smethwick is a parliamentary constituency, centred on the town of SmethwickinStaffordshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system. The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election.
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be re-established for the 2024 general election. It will be formed from the (to be abolished) Warley constituency, with the addition of most of the Blackheath ward.[1]
The constituency gained national interest during the 1918 general election when the Suffragette leader Christabel Pankhurst decided to stand as a Woman's Party candidate supporting the Coalition. She was one of 17 women candidates standing for Parliament at the first opportunity. This was her one and only parliamentary campaign which she lost to the Labour candidate.[2]
In 1945 the constituency held the first post-war by-election when the winning Labour candidate, Alfred Dobbs, was killed in a road traffic accident less than twenty four hours after the count.[3] The constituency was the subject of national media coverage during the 1964 general election when Peter Griffiths, the Conservative Party candidate, gained the seat against the national trend, unseating the Labour Party sitting member, Patrick Gordon Walker, a front bench opposition spokesman in the previous Parliament, in a campaign with racial overtones.[4]
The County Borough of Smethwick.
The re-established constituency will be composed of the following wards (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
It will comprise the whole of the current Warley constituency, with the addition of the bulk of the Blackheath ward from Halesowen and Rowley Regis (to be abolished), thus bringing its electorate within the permitted range.
Election | Member | Party | |
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1918 | John Davison | Labour | |
1926 | Sir Oswald Mosley | Labour | |
1931 | New Party | ||
1931 | Roy Wise | Conservative | |
1945 | Alfred Dobbs | Labour | |
1945 | Patrick Gordon Walker | Labour | |
1964 | Peter Griffiths | Conservative | |
1966 | Andrew Faulds | Labour | |
Feb 1974 | constituency abolished: see Warley East |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Jay Anandou | ||||
TUSC | Ravaldeep Bath | ||||
Reform UK | Pete Durnell | ||||
Conservative | Kate Fairhurst | ||||
Independent | Christopher Graham | ||||
Labour | Gurinder Josan[7] | ||||
Green | Rod Macrorie[8] | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Oliver Patrick | ||||
Workers Party | Nahim Rubani[9] |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Andrew Faulds | 16,077 | 52.2 | −2.2 | |
Conservative | Brian Rathbone | 13,968 | 45.4 | +1.3 | |
Liberal | Mihir Gupta | 747 | 2.4 | New | |
Majority | 2,109 | 6.8 | −3.5 | ||
Turnout | 30,792 | 68.1 | −7.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -1.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Andrew Faulds | 18,440 | 54.4 | +11.8 | |
Conservative | Peter Griffiths | 14,950 | 44.1 | −3.5 | |
British National | R. Stanley | 508 | 1.5 | New | |
Majority | 3,490 | 10.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 33,898 | 75.4 | +1.3 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | −7.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Griffiths | 16,690 | 47.6 | +2.3 | |
Labour | Patrick Gordon Walker | 14,916 | 42.6 | −12.1 | |
Liberal | David Hugill | 3,172 | 9.0 | New | |
Independent | Dudley Trevor Davies | 262 | 0.8 | New | |
Majority | 1,774 | 5.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 35,040 | 74.1 | −1.8 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | −7.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Patrick Gordon Walker | 20,670 | 54.7 | −3.5 | |
Conservative | Peter Griffiths | 17,126 | 45.3 | +3.5 | |
Majority | 3,544 | 9.4 | −7.0 | ||
Turnout | 37,796 | 75.9 | +0.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -3.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Patrick Gordon Walker | 23,151 | 58.2 | −2.4 | |
Conservative | John Wells | 16,656 | 41.8 | +2.4 | |
Majority | 6,495 | 16.4 | −4.8 | ||
Turnout | 39,807 | 75.5 | −8.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -2.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Patrick Gordon Walker | 27,739 | 60.6 | −1.5 | |
Conservative | A. Norman Giles | 18,012 | 39.4 | +1.5 | |
Majority | 9,727 | 21.2 | −3.0 | ||
Turnout | 45,751 | 83.5 | -3.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -1.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Patrick Gordon Walker | 28,750 | 62.1 | −6.7 | |
Conservative | J. Fallon | 17,553 | 37.9 | +6.7 | |
Majority | 11,197 | 24.2 | −13.4 | ||
Turnout | 46,303 | 86.9 | +21.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -6.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Patrick Gordon Walker | 19,364 | 68.8 | +2.9 | |
Conservative | Gilbert Harold Samuel Edgar | 8,762 | 31.2 | −2.9 | |
Majority | 10,602 | 37.6 | +5.8 | ||
Turnout | 43,020 | 65.4 | −7.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −2.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Alfred Dobbs | 20,522 | 65.9 | +18.4 | |
Conservative | Gilbert Harold Samuel Edgar | 10,637 | 34.1 | −18.4 | |
Majority | 9,885 | 31.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 31,159 | 72.4 | +1.7 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | −18.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Roy Wise | 16,575 | 52.5 | −7.6 | |
Labour | Charles Wortham Brook | 15,023 | 47.5 | +7.6 | |
Majority | 1,552 | 5.0 | −17.2 | ||
Turnout | 31,598 | 70.7 | −4.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −7.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Roy Wise | 20,945 | 60.1 | +25.9 | |
Labour | W. Ernest Lawrence | 13,927 | 39.9 | −14.9 | |
Majority | 7,018 | 20.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 34,872 | 74.7 | −4.2 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +20.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Oswald Mosley | 19,550 | 54.8 | −2.3 | |
Unionist | Roy Wise | 12,210 | 34.2 | +0.5 | |
Liberal | Maude Egerton Marshall | 3,909 | 11.0 | +1.8 | |
Majority | 7,340 | 20.6 | −2.8 | ||
Turnout | 35,669 | 78.9 | +0.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -1.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Oswald Mosley | 16,077 | 57.1 | +4.8 | |
Unionist | Marshall James Pike | 9,495 | 33.7 | −14.0 | |
Liberal | Edwin Bayliss | 2,600 | 9.2 | New | |
Majority | 6,582 | 23.4 | +18.8 | ||
Turnout | 35,862 | 78.6 | +0.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −9.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Davison | 14,491 | 52.3 | −2.4 | |
Unionist | Marshall James Pike | 13,238 | 47.7 | +2.4 | |
Majority | 1,253 | 4.6 | −4.8 | ||
Turnout | 27,729 | 78.2 | +6.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -2.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Davison | 13,550 | 54.7 | +4.0 | |
Unionist | Edmund Brocklebank | 11,217 | 45.3 | −4.0 | |
Majority | 2,333 | 9.4 | +8.0 | ||
Turnout | 24,767 | 71.7 | −4.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −4.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Davison | 13,141 | 50.7 | −1.5 | |
Unionist | Arthur Henry Addenbrooke Simcox | 12,759 | 49.3 | +1.5 | |
Majority | 382 | 1.4 | −3.0 | ||
Turnout | 25,900 | 75.9 | +21.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -1.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Davison | 9,389 | 52.2 | ||
Women's Party | Christabel Pankhurst | 8,614 | 47.8 | ||
Majority | 775 | 4.4 | |||
Turnout | 18,003 | 54.7 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
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