Halesowen and Stourbridge (UK Parliament constituency)

Halesowen and Stourbridge
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	West Midlands
February 1974–1997
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Stourbridge, Halesowen and Rowley Regis
Created from	Oldbury & Halesowen

Halesowen and Stourbridge was a parliamentary constituency in the West Midlands, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from February 1974 until it was abolished for the 1997 general election.

Its territory was then divided between the new constituencies of Halesowen & Rowley Regis and Stourbridge, both of which were initially held by Labour.

Boundaries

1974-1983: The Municipal Boroughs of Halesowen and Stourbridge.

1983-1997: The Metropolitan Borough of Dudley wards of Belle Vale and Hasbury, Halesowen North, Halesowen South, Hayley Green, Lye and Wollescote, Norton, Pedmore and Stourbridge East, and Wollaston and Stourbridge West.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[1]	Party
	Feb 1974	John Stokes	Conservative
	1992	Warren Hawksley	Conservative
	1997	constituency abolished: see Stourbridge & Halesowen and Rowley Regis

Elections

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Halesowen and Stourbridge[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Warren Hawksley	32,312	50.6	+0.5
	Labour	Alan Bryan Hankon	22,730	35.6	+7.8
	Liberal Democrat	Vinod Sharma	7,941	12.4	−9.6
	Green	Tim Weller	908	1.4	N/A
Majority			9,582	15.0	−7.3
Turnout			63,891	82.3	+2.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	−3.7

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Halesowen and Stourbridge[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Heydon Romaine Stokes	31,037	50.12	+1.73
	Labour	Timothy John Sunter	17,229	27.82	+2.79
	Social Democratic	Dominic Crispin Adam Simon	13,658	22.06	-3.53
Majority			13,808	22.3
Turnout			61,924	79.37
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1983: Halesowen and Stourbridge[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Heydon Romaine Stokes	28,520	48.39	-2.99
	Social Democratic	Thomas William Clitheroe	14,934	25.58	+13.54
	Labour	Colin Ellison	14,611	25.03	-10.17
	Ecology	Derek John Rudd	582	1.00	N/A
Majority			13,316	22.81
Turnout			58,377	76.41
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1979: Halesowen and Stourbridge[4][5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Heydon Romaine Stokes	33,247	49.59	+10.63
	Labour	Richard Alfred Etheridge	24,282	36.22	-1.39
	Liberal	Christopher Harvey	8,597	12.82	-10.62
	National Front	Stanley Frederick Goodwin	921	1.37
Majority			8,965	13.37
Turnout			67,047	79.31
	Conservative hold		Swing	+6.01

General Election, October 1974: Halesowen and Stourbridge[4][6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Heydon Romaine Stokes	24,387	38.96	-0.94
	Labour	Dennis Turner	23,537	37.60	+3.79
	Liberal	Leonard Thomas Eden	14,672	23.44	-2.85
Majority			850	1.36
Turnout			62,596	76.18
	Conservative hold		Swing	-2.37

General Election, February 1974: Halesowen and Stourbridge[4][7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Heydon Romaine Stokes	26,514	39.90
	Labour	Dennis Turner	22,465	33.81
	Liberal	Leonard Thomas Eden	17,471	26.29
Majority			4,049	6.09
Turnout			66,450	81.39
	Conservative win (new seat)

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands

Notes and references

1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 1)
2. "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010.
3. "'Halesowen and Stourbridge', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
4. "'Halesowen and Stourbridge', Feb 1974 - May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
5. Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results May 1979". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
6. Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results October 1974". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
7. Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results February 1974". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 22 March 2016.