Tipton and Wednesbury (UK Parliament constituency)

Tipton and Wednesbury is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election.^[1][2] It is represented by Antonia Bance of the Labour Party.

Tipton and Wednesbury
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Tipton and Wednesbury in West Midlands region
County	West Midlands county
Major settlements	Wednesbury, Coseley, Tipton
Current constituency
Created	2024
Member of Parliament	Antonia Bance (Labour)
Seats	One
Created from	West Bromwich East & West Bromwich West

The constituency name refers to the towns of Tipton and Wednesbury.^[3]

Boundaries

Tipton and Wednesbury contains the following as they existed on 1 December 2020:^[4]

In the Borough of Sandwell:

• The wards of Great Bridge, Princes End, Tipton Green, Wednesbury North and Wednesbury South from the former West Bromwich West constituency
• The wards of Friar Park and Hateley Heath from the former West Bromwich East constituency

In the Borough of Dudley:

• The ward of Coseley East¹ from the Wolverhampton South East constituency^[5]

¹ Renamed Coseley following a local government boundary review in Dudley which became effective from May 2024.^[6]

Constituency profile

Electoral Calculus categorises the seat as being part of the “Somewheres” demographic, those who have socially conservative views and economically soft left views, alongside strong support for Brexit. For reference, the site gives a notional result of 74% for those who voted to leave the EU back in 2016, which is the 3rd highest in the country. In addition to this, around 64% of the constituency is deprived, in terms of employment, income and education, which is considerably higher than the national average of 52% deprivation, according to the site. For general statistics, the average age is 48.1, at least 72% of the local population owns a car, whilst 53% own a home, and the gross household income is £33,449, the average house price is £150,842, which is under half the national average.^[7]

The constituency is significantly deprived, with the deprivation scores of the individual towns of Tipton and Wednesbury placing them both within the 20% most deprived areas in England.^[8] The constituency is almost entirely within the corridor of severe deprivation that runs through the West Midlands conurbation.^[9][10]

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

General election 2024: Tipton and Wednesbury^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Antonia Bance	11,755	36.9	−1.5
	Conservative	Shaun Bailey	8,370	26.3	−24.4
	Reform UK	Jack Sabharwal	8,019	25.2	+19.4
	Green	Mark Redding	1,509	4.7	+2.8
	Independent	Mohammed Hussain-Billa	945	3.0	N/A
	Independent	Abdul Husen	660	2.1	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Rochell	592	1.9	−1.2
Majority			3,385	10.6
Turnout			31,850	43.0	−8.7
	Labour win (new seat)

See also

• List of parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (county)