Wolverhampton West is a borough constituency in the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands of England which was re-established for the 2024 general election following the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies and which is formed largely from the former Wolverhampton South West constituency. It has been represented in the House of Commons since 2024 by Warinder Juss.
Boundaries 1885–1918 The original boundaries of the constituency were set in the sixth schedule of the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. The seat comprised five wards of the municipal borough of Wolverhampton (St. Mark's, St. Paul's, St. John's, St. George's and St. Matthew's) and the neighbouring Ettingshall area which lay outside the borough boundaries."so much of the Parish of Bilston, as is known as Ettingshall New Village, being the portion which lies to the west of a line drawn along the centre of Ward Street, and is bounded on the south by Sedgley Parish, and on the north and west by the Municipal Borough of Wolverhampton". Sixth Schedule. Divisions Of Boroughs. Number, Names, Contents, and Boundaries Of Divisions. Redistribution Of Seats Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict.) Chapter 23.
1918–1950 Constituencies throughout Great Britain and Ireland were redrawn by the Representation of the People Act 1918. Wolverhampton's municipal boundaries had been enlarged and it had become a county borough in the period since 1885. The Wolverhampton West seat was redefined to reflect this, and was described as comprising nine wards of the county borough: Blakenhall, Dunstall, Graiseley, Merridale, Park, St. George's, St. John's, St. Mark's and St. Matthew's.Representation Of The People Act 1918, Ninth Schedule. Redistribution Of Seats.
2024–present Further to the 2023 periodic review of Westminster constituencies, which was based on the ward structure in place on 1 December 2020, and taking into account the local government boundary review in the City of Wolverhampton which came into effect in May 2023, the re-established constituency comprises the following from the 2024 general election:
The City of Wolverhampton wards of: Blakenhall; Graiseley; Merry Hill; Oxley (most); Park; Penn; St Peter's (most); Tettenhall Regis; Tettenhall Wightwick; and a small part of Bushbury North ward.
The seat comprises the whole of the current Wolverhampton South West constituency, with the addition of the Blakenhall ward from Wolverhampton South East and the Oxley ward from Wolverhampton North East (as they existed in 2020).
History
The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, when the former two-seat Wolverhampton constituency was divided into three single-member constituencies.
It was abolished for the 1950 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Wolverhampton South West constituency.
Members of Parliament
MPs 1885–1950 ElectionMemberParty 1885 Alfred Hickman Conservative 1886 Sir William Chichele Plowden Liberal 1892 Sir Alfred Hickman Conservative 1906 Thomas Frederick Richards Labour 1910 Sir Alfred Bird Conservative 1922 by-election Sir Robert Bird, Bt. Conservative 1929 William Brown 1 Labour 1929 Independent Labour 1931 Sir Robert Bird, Bt. Conservative 1945 Billy Hughes Labour1950 constituency abolished: see Wolverhampton South West
1 Brown was elected in 1929, as a Labour Party candidate, but later sat as an "Independent Labour" MP. He sought re-election in 1931 and 1935 as an Independent Labour candidate, opposed in 1935 by an official Labour Party candidate, but lost on both occasions
MPs 2024– ElectionMemberParty 2024 Warinder Juss Labour
Election results Elections in the 1880s
Elections in the 1890s
Elections in the 1900s
Elections in the 1910s
Elections in the 1920s
Elections in the 1930s
Elections in the 1940s
Elections in the 2020s
Previous results are notional.
See also List of Members of Parliament for Wolverhampton List of parliamentary constituencies in Wolverhampton
References
External links
Wolverhampton West UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) at MapIt UK