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Stourbridge
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Warren Hawksley
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17,807
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23,452
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|
7,123
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0
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|
0
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Halesowen and Stourbridge
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24,907
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|
19,519
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|
6,011
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0
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|
566
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|
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Conservative
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|
In the boundary changes that have transformed the parliamentary map of the borough of Dudley in the West Midlands, Stourbridge is separated from its long-term partner Halesowen and now has a seat of its own - or rather one named after it, as it also includes a couple of wards from outside the town, Quarry Bank/Cradley and Amblecote.
Stourbridge is a prosperous, almost all-white, largely middle-class community on the very edge of the West Midlands conurbation, and with a strong tradition from its former county of Worcestershire. This new seat just about ranks as a marginal, with a notional Conservative majority in 1992 of 5,500 and requiring a 6 per cent swing to Labour to take it. One feels that if they do so, they will be celebrating a landslide win nationally.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4,165
|
11.55
|
9.03
|
128
|
|
|
3,215
|
8.92
|
11.17
|
80
|
|
|
4,021
|
11.15
|
11.25
|
99
|
|
|
8,743
|
24.25
|
14.70
|
165
|
|
|
1,125
|
3.12
|
10.45
|
30
|
|
|
78
|
0.22
|
2.81
|
8
|
|
|
2,129
|
5.91
|
8.01
|
74
|
|
|
7,701
|
21.36
|
15.25
|
140
|
|
|
2,331
|
6.47
|
7.13
|
91
|
|
|
2,422
|
6.72
|
10.17
|
66
|
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