Bilston (UK Parliament constituency)

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Bilston ??? constituency
Created:	1918
Abolished:	1974
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Bilston was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Bilston in what is now the southeast of the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 History 2 Boundaries 3 Members of Parliament 4 Elections 5 See also 6 References

[edit] History

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Wolverhampton South East constituency.

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1918	Thomas Edgecomb Hickman	Coalition Conservative
	1922	Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury	Conservative
	1924	John Baker	Labour
	1931	Geoffrey Kelsall Peto	Conservative
	1935	Ian Campbell Hannah	Conservative
	1944	William Ernest Gibbons	Conservative
	1945	Will Nally	Labour
	1955	Robert Edwards	Labour
1974		constituency abolished: see Wolverhampton South East

[edit] Elections

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Wolverhampton

[edit] References

• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.