Solihull West and Shirley | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | West Midlands county |
Electorate | 70,537 (2023)[1] |
Major settlements | Shirley, Solihull |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | Neil Shastri-Hurst (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from |
Solihull West and Shirley is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. The constituency was created as a result of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies and was first contested at the 2024 general election.[2] The constituency name refers to the suburban town of Shirley and the western areas of the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull.[3] This is part of a boundary review that resulted in the borough being split between three Westminster constituencies.[4]
The constituency composed of the following wards (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
It contains the following areas:[6]
Solihull prior to 2024
Election | Member | Party | |
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2024 | Neil Shastri-Hurst | Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Neil Shastri-Hurst | 16,284 | 34.7 | −26.2 | |
Labour | Deirdre Fox | 11,664 | 24.9 | +5.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ade Adeyemo | 7,916 | 16.9 | +1.2 | |
Reform UK | Mary McKenna | 7,149 | 15.3 | N/A | |
Green | Max McLoughlin | 3,270 | 7.0 | +3.0 | |
Independent | Julian Knight | 594 | 1.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,620 | 9.8 | −31.6 | ||
Turnout | 46,877 | 65.0 | −5.8 | ||
Registered electors | 71,813 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -15.8 |