West Midlands, 1997 vs 2001: seat-by-seat change

Every constituency in West Midlands compared between the 1997 and 2001 general elections: which seats changed hands and how far each swung.

Constituency	1997	2001	Majority	Con–Lab swing
Aldridge-Brownhills	Con	Con	10.0%	−2.3
Birmingham Edgbaston	Lab	Lab	12.5%	+1.2
Birmingham Erdington	Lab	Lab	32.6%	+0.6
Birmingham Hall Green	Lab	Lab	20.1%	0
Birmingham Hodge Hill	Lab	Lab	43.9%	+1.2
Birmingham Ladywood	Lab	Lab	57.3%	−1.6
Birmingham Northfield	Lab	Lab	26.4%	−1.5
Birmingham Perry Barr	Lab	Lab	23.4%	−9.0
Birmingham Selly Oak	Lab	Lab	25.8%	−1.0
Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath	Lab	Lab	39.1%	0
Birmingham Yardley	Lab	Lab	8.6%	+2.3
Bromsgrove	Con	Con	17.8%	−4.3
Burton	Lab	Lab	10.4%	−0.6
Cannock Chase	Lab	Lab	26.1%	−0.8
Coventry North East	Lab	Lab	42.3%	−2.3
Coventry North West	Lab	Lab	25.6%	−2.5
Coventry South	Lab	Lab	20.7%	−0.6
Dudley North	Lab	Lab	17.6%	−1.1
Dudley South	Lab	Lab	18.8%	−4.2
Halesowen and Rowley Regis	Lab	Lab	18.7%	−1.2
Hereford	LD	LD	2.2%	−0.4
Leominster	Con	Con	22.2%	−2.2
Lichfield	Con	Con	10.6%	−5.1
Ludlow	Con	LD gain	3.8%	−4.5
Meriden	Con	Con	8.5%	−3.7
Mid Worcestershire	Con	Con	23.7%	−2.6
Newcastle-under-Lyme	Lab	Lab	25.8%	−4.6
North Shropshire	Con	Con	13.4%	−4.6
North Warwickshire	Lab	Lab	21.7%	−2.8
Nuneaton	Lab	Lab	17.4%	−4.0
Redditch	Lab	Lab	6.7%	−3.5
Rugby and Kenilworth	Lab	Lab	5.4%	+2.3
Shrewsbury and Atcham	Lab	Lab	7.2%	+2.1
Solihull	Con	Con	19.5%	+0.3
South Staffordshire	Con	Con	16.3%	−0.5
Stafford	Lab	Lab	11.3%	+1.5
Staffordshire Moorlands	Lab	Lab	13.7%	−3.0
Stoke-on-Trent Central	Lab	Lab	41.7%	−3.9
Stoke-on-Trent North	Lab	Lab	39.1%	−2.9
Stoke-on-Trent South	Lab	Lab	29.1%	−5.2
Stone	Con	Con	13.2%	−3.0
Stourbridge	Lab	Lab	9.6%	−0.9
Stratford-on-Avon	Con	Con	21.5%	−2.9
Sutton Coldfield	Con	Con	23.3%	+2.6
Tamworth	Lab	Lab	11.4%	−1.8
Telford	Lab	Lab	27.2%	−1.6
Walsall North	Lab	Lab	29.1%	0
Walsall South	Lab	Lab	28.5%	+1.1
Warley	Lab	Lab	37.7%	−1.0
Warwick and Leamington	Lab	Lab	11.1%	+2.7
West Bromwich East	Lab	Lab	29.9%	−1.4
West Bromwich West	Oth	Lab gain	35.7%	+17.8
West Worcestershire	Con	Con	12.0%	−1.3
Wolverhampton North East	Lab	Lab	31.6%	+0.1
Wolverhampton South East	Lab	Lab	45.7%	+1.0
Wolverhampton South West	Lab	Lab	8.5%	−1.0
Worcester	Lab	Lab	13.0%	−0.7
Wrekin The	Lab	Lab	8.7%	+1.0
Wyre Forest	Lab	Oth gain	36.7%	−4.8

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