Election 97

Wyre Forest


Result 97 gain
from Conservative
Current MP 97 Anthony Coombs
Majority 0 ( 0.0%)
Conservative 97 19,897 (36.1%)
Labour 97 26,843 (48.8%)
LibDem 97 4,377 ( 8.0%)
Nationalist 97 0 ( 0.0%)
Other 97 3,938 ( 7.2%)
Elected party 97
Electorate 97 73,063
Turnout 97 55,055 (75.4%)



1992 MP Anthony Coombs
Old constituency name Wyre Forest
Majority 92 9,585 (16.3%)
Conservative 92 27,999 (47.5%)
Labour 92 18,414 (31.2%)
LibDem 92 12,551 (21.3%)
Nationalist 92 0 ( 0.0%)
Other 92 0 ( 0.0%)
Elected party 92 Conservative
Electorate 92 71,767
Turnout 92 58,964 (82.2%)
Wyre Forest



Tory change -11.3%
Labour change +17.5%
Lib Dem change -13.3%
Nationalist change +0.0%
Other change +7.2%
Electorate change +1.8%
Turnout Change -6.8%
Robert Waller wrote

Wyre Forest is not a name well-known to most residents of the UK. In fact, this seat comprises the north-west corner of Worcestershire. Its largest town is Kidderminster, a familiar name, and it seems a pity that the seat was not called after it - it once was. The Tories hold the seat, but they are not rock-solid in Wyre Forest - there are numbers of working-class voters who cleave to the other two parties. Labour won the Kidderminster seat once, but that was in 1945 - the party would require an unlikely 8 per cent swing to take it now. Conservative MP Anthony Coombs may be irritated by the loss of some of his majority due to boundary changes, but he should be fairly confident of holding on here.


Super Profiles

3,790 9.54 9.03 106
3,890 9.80 11.17 88
7,056 17.77 11.25 158
5,370 13.52 14.70 92
1,329 3.35 10.45 32
526 1.32 2.81 47
2,891 7.28 8.01 91
10,458 26.33 15.25 173
2,510 6.32 7.13 89
1,419 3.57 10.17 35