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City of Wolverhampton Council is the local authority for the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, England. Wolverhampton has had an elected local authority since 1848, which has been reformed several times. Since 1974 the council has been a metropolitan borough council. It provides the majority of local government services in the city.
Wolverhampton (/ ˌ w ʊ l v ər ˈ h æ m p t ə n / ⓘ WUUL-vər-HAMP-tən) is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. Located around 12 miles north of Birmingham, it forms the northwestern part of the West Midlands conurbation, with the towns of Walsall to the east and Dudley to the south. The population in 2021 was ...
This is a list of parliamentary constituencies in the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands of England. 1832–1885. Wolverhampton (2 seats) 1885–1918. Wolverhampton East; Wolverhampton South; Wolverhampton West; 1918-1950. Bilston; Wolverhampton East; Wolverhampton West; 1950-1974. Bilston; Wolverhampton North East; Wolverhampton South ...
Sir Geoffrey Mander (1929–1945), of the Mander family who owned a paint factory in Wolverhampton and Wightwick Manor. Mander was a famous Liberal opponent of the appeasement of Hitler and a supporter of the League of Nations .
Wolverhampton South East is a constituency [n 1] in West Midlands that was created in 1974. The seat has been represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by Pat McFadden of the Labour Party since 2005 .
Wolverhampton is a strong Labour council. The party have controlled the council for most of its history, only failing to win a majority in 1987, 1992, 2008, and 2010. [1] The 2023 election was for the entire council on new ward boundaries. [2] In that election, Labour won 47 seats with 57.2% of the vote, and the Conservatives won 13 with 37.0%.
Wolverhampton North East was notable in the 1987 general election for being one of only a small number of seats that the Conservatives gained from Labour.It reverted to type, however, at the 1992 general election, when the Labour MP Ken Purchase first took office.
The constituency was created under the Reform Act 1832, and first used at the 1832 general election.It was abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, when it was replaced for the 1885 general election by three new single-member constituencies: Wolverhampton East, Wolverhampton South and Wolverhampton West.