Stourbridge (UK Parliament constituency)

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**Stourbridge**
Borough constituency

Stourbridge shown within West Midlands, and West Midlands shown within England
Created:	1945, 1997
MP:	Lynda Waltho
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	West Midlands
EP constituency:	West Midlands

Stourbridge is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

1 Boundaries
2 History
3 Members of Parliament
4 Election results
5 See also

[edit] Boundaries

Stourbridge is one of four constituencies covering the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, covering the south-west of the borough. The constituency includes the town of Stourbridge itself, and also Amblecote and Cradley.

[edit] History

The current Stourbridge constituency was formed in 1997, taking in a large part of the former Halesowen and Stourbridge constituency (the remainder forming part of Halesowen and Rowley Regis). Halesowen and Stourbridge had been held by the Conservatives, but both of its replacements were taken by Labour in 1997.

[edit] Members of Parliament

1997 – 2005: Debra Shipley, Labour
2005 – present: Lynda Waltho, Labour

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Stourbridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lynda Waltho	17,089	41.0	−6.1
	Conservative	Diana Coad	16,682	40.0	+2.4
	Liberal Democrats	Chris Bramall	6,850	16.4	+4.3
	UK Independence	Daniel Pui Chai Mau	1,087	2.6	+0.7
Majority			407	1.0
Turnout			41,708	64.7	+2.9
	Labour hold		Swing	−4.3

General Election 2001: Stourbridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Debra Shipley	18,823	47.1	-0.1
	Conservative	Stephen Eyre	15,011	37.6	+1.8
	Liberal Democrats	Chris Bramall	4,833	12.1	-2.2
	UK Independence	John Knotts	763	1.9	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Mick Atherton	494	1.2	N/A
Majority			3,812	9.5
Turnout			39,924	61.8	-14.7
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Stourbridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Debra Shipley	23,452	47.2	N/A
	Conservative	Warren Hawksley	17,807	35.8	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Chris Bramall	7,123	14.3	N/A
	Referendum Party	P. Quick	1,319	2.7	N/A
Majority			5,645		N/A
Turnout				76.5	N/A
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

[edit] See also

List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Midlands

Constituencies in the West Midlands
Labour	Birmingham Edgbaston \| Birmingham, Erdington \| Birmingham Hall Green \| \|Birmingham Hodge Hill \| Birmingham Northfield \| Birmingham Perry Barr \| Birmingham Selly Oak \| Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath \| Burton \| Cannock Chase \| Coventry North East \| Coventry North West \| Coventry South \| Dudley North \| Dudley South \| Halesowen and Rowley Regis \| Newcastle-under-Lyme \| North Warwickshire \| Nuneaton \| Redditch \| Stafford \| Staffordshire Moorlands \| Stoke-on-Trent Central \| Stoke-on-Trent North \| Stoke-on-Trent South \| Stourbridge \| Tamworth \| Telford \| Walsall North \| Walsall South \| Warley \| Warwick and Leamington \| West Bromwich East \| West Bromwich West \| Wolverhampton North East \| Wolverhampton South East \| Wolverhampton South West \| Worcester
Conservative	Aldridge-Brownhills \| Bromsgrove \| Leominster \| Lichfield \| Ludlow \| Meriden \| Mid Worcestershire \| North Shropshire \| Rugby and Kenilworth \| Shrewsbury and Atcham \| South Staffordshire \| Stone \| Stratford-on-Avon \| Sutton Coldfield \| The Wrekin \| West Worcestershire
Liberal Democrat	Birmingham Yardley \| Hereford \| Solihull
Health Concern	Wyre Forest
Independent	Birmingham, Ladywood
West Midlands European constituency: Conservative (3) \| Labour (2) \| UKIP (1) \| Liberal Democrats (1)