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Stourbridge
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|
gain
from Conservative
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|
Warren Hawksley
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
17,807 (35.8%)
|
|
23,452 (47.2%)
|
|
7,123 (14.3%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
1,319 ( 2.7%)
|
|
|
|
64,966
|
|
49,701 (76.5%)
|
|
Warren Hawksley
|
|
Halesowen and Stourbridge
|
|
5,388 (10.6%)
|
|
24,907 (48.8%)
|
|
19,519 (38.3%)
|
|
6,011 (11.8%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
566 ( 1.1%)
|
|
|
Conservative
|
|
65,947
|
|
51,003 (77.3%)
|
|
|
-13.0%
|
|
+8.9%
|
|
+2.5%
|
|
+0.0%
|
|
+1.5%
|
|
-1.5%
|
|
-0.8%
|
|
|
|
|
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
|
|
|
