Subject to major boundary changes, it will be reformed as Kingswinford and South Staffordshire, to be first contested at the 2024 general election.

[2] Part of the constituency will be absorbed into the new seat of Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge, with Sir Gavin Williamson being chosen as its Conservative candidate.

The constituency was made up of about two-thirds of the South Staffordshire local government district, its southern bulk.

[5] Its settlements included Brewood, Cheslyn Hay, Codsall, Featherstone, Great Wyrley, Kinver, Perton and Wombourne.

Most electoral wards were locally Conservative safe seats with Labour's only area of frequent strength, Cheslyn Hay, a town with historically a greater dependence on coal mining than the others.

In most of this early period the constituency elected prominent land-owning industrialists, including, for example, in Walsall, and Wolverhampton.

On 30 April 2005, the Liberal Democrat candidate Josephine Harrison died of an undisclosed illness at the age of 53.

Cormack increased his majority to 34.5% (a 9.1% swing), while the United Kingdom Independence Party saw one of their best results of 2005, with 10.4% of the vote.

A Guardian statistical compilation by constituency in November 2012 showed that 2.8% of the population only were registered jobseekers, significantly lower than the national average of 3.8%.