| Warley East | |
|---|---|
| Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
| County | West Midlands |
| 1974 (1974)–1997 | |
| Seats | One |
| Created from | Smethwick |
| Replaced by | Warley |
Warley East was a parliamentary constituency in the borough of Sandwell in the West MidlandsofEngland.
It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the February 1974 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Warley constituency.
The largest town in the constituency was Smethwick.
The constituency's only MP for its 23-year existence was the actor Andrew Faulds, previously Labour MP for the former constituency of Smethwick since 1966.
1974–1983: The County Borough of Warley wards of Abbey, Bearwood, Brandhall, Bristnall, Sandwell, Soho, Uplands, and Victoria.
1983–1997: The Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell wards of Abbey, Bristnall, Old Warley, St Paul's, Smethwick, and Soho and Victoria.
| Election | Member[1] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1974 | Andrew Faulds | Labour | |
| 1997 | constituency abolished: see Warley | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Andrew Faulds | 24,789 | 59.02 | ||
| Conservative | Susan Lewis-Smith | 17,209 | 40.98 | ||
| Majority | 7,571 | 18.04 | |||
| Turnout | 41,998 | 73.59 | |||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Andrew Faulds | 21,065 | 54.55 | ||
| Conservative | P Holliday | 12,888 | 33.37 | ||
| Liberal | Rodney Smith | 4,664 | 12.08 | New | |
| Majority | 8,177 | 21.18 | |||
| Turnout | 38,617 | 67.12 | |||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Andrew Faulds | 21,333 | 55.02 | ||
| Conservative | RK Jones | 16,236 | 41.87 | ||
| National Front | J Worrall | 1,204 | 3.11 | New | |
| Majority | 5,097 | 13.15 | |||
| Turnout | 38,773 | 70.46 | |||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Andrew Faulds | 18,036 | 45.55 | ||
| Conservative | Michael Whitby | 14,645 | 36.99 | ||
| SDP | Bryn Hamer | 6,697 | 16.91 | New | |
| Communist | HS Randhawa | 217 | 0.55 | New | |
| Majority | 3,391 | 8.56 | |||
| Turnout | 39,595 | 68.93 | |||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Andrew Faulds | 19,428 | 50.24 | ||
| Conservative | Anthony Antoniou | 13,843 | 35.80 | ||
| SDP | Jonathan J. Jordan | 5,396 | 13.96 | ||
| Majority | 5,585 | 14.44 | |||
| Turnout | 38,667 | 69.41 | |||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Andrew Faulds | 19,891 | 53.6 | +3.4 | |
| Conservative | Giles Marshall | 12,097 | 32.6 | –3.2 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Alan R.A. Harrod | 4,547 | 12.3 | –1.7 | |
| Natural Law | Alan T. Groucutt | 561 | 1.5 | New | |
| Majority | 7,794 | 21.0 | +6.6 | ||
| Turnout | 37,096 | 71.7 | +2.3 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | +3.3 | |||
