Dudley South | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | West Midlands |
Electorate | 61,308 (December 2010) [1] |
Major settlements | Dudley |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of Parliament | Mike Wood (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Dudley West |
Dudley South is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Mike Wood of the Conservative Party. [n 2]
The seat is due to be abolished for the 2024 general election. [2]
Dudley South is one of four constituencies covering the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, and covers the central part of the borough to the south of the town centre. The constituency voted strongly for Brexit, and residents' wealth is around average for the UK. [3]
1997–2010: The Metropolitan Borough of Dudley wards of Brierley Hill, Brockmoor and Pensnett, Kingswinford North and Wall Heath, Kingswinford South, Netherton and Woodside, St Andrews, and Wordsley.
2010–2024: The Metropolitan Borough of Dudley wards of Brierley Hill, Brockmoor and Pensnett, Kingswinford North and Wall Heath, Kingswinford South, Netherton, Woodside and St Andrews, and Wordsley.
Before the 1997 election, Dudley was divided into East and West constituencies, rather than North and South. Dudley South covers most of the area previously covered by Dudley West, which included Sedgley but excluded Netherton.
Dudley West was the scene of a by-election in 1994, held after the death of the Conservative John Blackburn who had represented the constituency since 1979. The by-election was won by Labour's Ian Pearson, who stood for Dudley South in 1997 and held the seat, winning by a comfortable margin each time, until he stood down in 2010.
The Conservative candidate, Chris Kelly, gained the seat in the subsequent general election. However, he decided to stand down in 2015.
Mike Wood retained the seat for the Conservatives in both the 2015 and 2017 general elections, in both cases achieving a swing towards his party and thus bucking the national trend.
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be abolished for the 2024 general election, with its contents distributed three ways: [2]
Election | Member [4] | Party | |
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1997 | Ian Pearson | Labour | |
2010 | Chris Kelly | Conservative | |
2015 | Mike Wood | Conservative |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Mike Wood | 24,835 | 67.9 | 11.5 | |
Labour | Lucy Caldicott | 9,270 | 25.3 | 10.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jonathan Bramall | 1,608 | 4.4 | 2.8 | |
Green | Cate Mohr | 863 | 2.4 | 1.4 | |
Majority | 15,565 | 42.6 | 22.4 | ||
Turnout | 36,576 | 60.2 | 2.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | 11.2 | |||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Mike Wood | 21,588 | 56.4 | 12.6 | |
Labour | Natasha Millward | 13,858 | 36.2 | 3.6 | |
UKIP | Mitchell Bolton | 1,791 | 4.7 | 14.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jonathan Bramall | 625 | 1.6 | 0.6 | |
Green | Jenny Maxwell | 382 | 1.0 | 1.5 | |
Majority | 7,730 | 20.2 | 9.0 | ||
Turnout | 38,244 | 62.4 | 0.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | 4.55 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Mike Wood [8] | 16,723 | 43.8 | 0.7 | |
Labour | Natasha Millward | 12,453 | 32.6 | 0.4 | |
UKIP | Paul Brothwood [9] | 7,236 | 18.9 | 10.7 | |
Green | Vicky Duckworth | 970 | 2.5 | New | |
Liberal Democrats | Martin Turner | 828 | 2.2 | 13.5 | |
Majority | 4,270 | 11.2 | 1.1 | ||
Turnout | 38,210 | 63.3 | 0.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | 0.54 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Chris Kelly | 16,450 | 43.1 | 8.1 | |
Labour | Rachel Harris | 12,594 | 33.0 | 11.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jonathan Bramall | 5,989 | 15.7 | 3.0 | |
UKIP | Philip Rowe | 3,132 | 8.2 | 5.0 | |
Majority | 3,856 | 10.1 | 0.7 | ||
Turnout | 38,165 | 63.0 | 2.8 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | 9.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ian Pearson | 17,800 | 45.3 | 4.5 | |
Conservative | Marco Longhi | 13,556 | 34.5 | 3.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jonathan Bramall | 4,808 | 12.2 | 2.7 | |
BNP | John Salvage | 1,841 | 4.7 | New | |
UKIP | Andrew Benion | 1,271 | 3.2 | 0.8 | |
Majority | 4,244 | 10.8 | 7.9 | ||
Turnout | 39,276 | 60.2 | 4.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | 3.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ian Pearson | 18,109 | 49.8 | 6.8 | |
Conservative | Jason Sugarman | 11,292 | 31.1 | 1.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Lorely Burt | 5,421 | 14.9 | 4.0 | |
UKIP | John Westwood | 859 | 2.4 | New | |
Socialist Alliance | Angela Thompson | 663 | 1.8 | New | |
Majority | 6,817 | 18.7 | 8.5 | ||
Turnout | 36,344 | 55.4 | 16.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | 4.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ian Pearson | 27,124 | 56.6 | ||
Conservative | Mark Simpson | 14,097 | 29.4 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Richard Burt | 5,214 | 10.9 | ||
Referendum | Connor Birch | 1,467 | 3.1 | ||
Majority | 13,027 | 27.2 | |||
Turnout | 47,902 | 71.8 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
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