West Worcestershire

West Worcestershire
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of West Worcestershire in Worcestershire.
Location of Worcestershire within England.
County	Worcestershire
Electorate	73,001 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1997
Member of parliament	Harriett Baldwin (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	South Worcestershire, Leominster
1832–1885
Number of members	Two
Type of constituency	County constituency
Replaced by	Bewdley, Droitwich, Evesham, East Worcestershire and North Worcestershire
Created from	Worcestershire
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	West Midlands

West Worcestershire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Harriett Baldwin, a Conservative.

The seat is known nationally for its hilly landscape, with products such as regional speciality cheeses, drinks and mineral water, a major economic sector is tourism and leisure, however the principal industries are in agriculture/food, chemicals, distribution, waste and mineral processing, printing and publishing, transport and retail.

Workless claimants who were registered jobseekers were in November 2012 significantly lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 2.1% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian.

West Worcestershire stretches from the Gloucestershire border in the south almost to Shropshire in the north, taking in Pershore and Bredon Hill in its eastern side. Its other major towns are Malvern in the west and Upton-upon-Severn in the centre.

Boundary changes for 2010, the fifth modern review nationwide, added an area including Tenbury Wells to the seat (formerly in the Leominster constituency) and lost the small shared part of the Fladbury ward to the Mid Worcestershire seat.

1832-1885: The Petty Sessional Divisions of Upton, Worcester, Hundred House and Kidderminster, and the City and County of the City of Worcester.

1997-2010: The District of Malvern Hills wards of Baldwin, Broadheath, Chase, Hallow, Kempsey, Langland, Laugherne Hill, Leigh and Bransford, Link, Longdon, Martley, Morton, Powick, Priory, Ripple, Temeside, The Hanleys, Trinity, Upton-on-Severn, Wells, West, and Woodbury, and the District of Wychavon wards of Bredon, Eckington, Elmley Castle, Pershore Holy Cross, Pershore St Andrew's, Somerville, and South Bredon Hill.

2010–present: The District of Malvern Hills, and the District of Wychavon wards of Bredon, Eckington, Elmley Castle and Somerville, Pershore, and South Bredon Hill.