Smethwick (UK Parliament constituency)
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Smethwick Borough constituency |
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Created: | 1918 |
Abolished: | 1974 |
Type: | House of Commons |
Members: | one |
Smethwick was a parliamentary constituency, centred on the town of Smethwick in the West Midlands county. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.
The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election.
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[edit] Boundaries
[edit] Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1918 | John Emanuel Davison | Labour | |
1923 | |||
1923 | |||
1924 | |||
1926 | Sir Oswald Mosley | Labour | |
1929 | |||
1931 | New Party | ||
1931 | Alfred Wise | Conservative | |
1935 | |||
1945 | Alfred Dobbs | Labour | |
1945 | Patrick Gordon Walker | Labour | |
1950 | |||
1951 | |||
1955 | |||
1959 | |||
1964 | Peter Griffiths | Conservative | |
1966 | Andrew Faulds | Labour | |
1970 | |||
1974 | constituency abolished: see Warley East |
[edit] Election results
[edit] Elections in the 1910s
General Election 1918: Smethwick | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | John Davison | 9,389 | 52.2 | N/A | |
Women's Party | Christabel Pankhurst | 8,614 | 47.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 775 | 4.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 18,003 | 54.7 | N/A | ||
Labour hold | Swing | N/A |
[edit] Elections in the 1920s
General Election 1922: Smethwick | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | John Davison | 13,141 | 50.7 | −1.5 | |
Conservative | A.H.A Simcox | 12,759 | 49.3 | +1.5 | |
Majority | 382 | 1.4 | −3.0 | ||
Turnout | 25,900 | 75.9 | +21.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | 1.5 |
General Election 1923: Smethwick | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | John Davison | 13,550 | 54.7 | +4.0 | |
Conservative | C.E.R. Brocklebank | 11,217 | 45.3 | −4.0 | |
Majority | 2,333 | 9.4 | +8.0 | ||
Turnout | 24,767 | 71.7 | −4.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −4.0 |
General Election 1924: Smethwick | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | John Davison | 14,491 | 52.3 | −2.4 | |
Conservative | M.J. Pike | 13,238 | 47.7 | +2.4 | |
Majority | 1,253 | 4.6 | −4.8 | ||
Turnout | 27,729 | 78.2 | +6.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | 2.4 |
By-election 1926: Smethwick | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Oswald Mosley | 16,077 | 57.1 | +4.8 | |
Conservative | M.J. Pike | 9,495 | 33.7 | −14.0 | |
Liberal | E. Bayliss | 2,600 | 9.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,582 | 23.4 | +18.8 | ||
Turnout | 35,862 | 78.6 | +0.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −9.4 |
General Election 1929: Smethwick | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Oswald Mosley | 19,550 | 54.8 | −2.3 | |
Conservative | Alfred Wise | 12,210 | 34.2 | +0.5 | |
Liberal | M.E. Marshall | 3,909 | 11.0 | +1.8 | |
Majority | 7,340 | 20.6 | −2.8 | ||
Turnout | 35,669 | 78.9 | +0.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | 1.4 |
[edit] Elections in the 1930s
General Election 1931: Smethwick | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Alfred Wise | 20,945 | 60.1 | +25.7 | |
Labour | W. E. Lawrence | 13,927 | 39.9 | −14.9 | |
Majority | 7,018 | 20.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 34,872 | 74.7 | −4.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | 20.3 |
General Election 1935: Smethwick | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Alfred Wise | 16,575 | 52.5 | −7.7 | |
Labour | C.W. Brook | 15,023 | 47.5 | +7.6 | |
Majority | 1,552 | 5.0 | −17.2 | ||
Turnout | 31,598 | 70.7 | −4.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −7.7 |
[edit] Elections in the 1940s
General Election 1945: Smethwick | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Alfred Dobbs | 20,522 | 65.9 | +18.4 | |
Conservative | G. H. Edgar | 10,637 | 34.1 | −18.4 | |
Majority | 9,885 | 31.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 31,159 | 72.4 | +1.7 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | −18.4 |
By-election 1945: Smethwick | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Patrick Gordon Walker | 19,364 | 68.8 | +2.9 | |
Conservative | G.H. Edgar | 8,762 | 31.2 | −2.9 | |
Majority | 10,602 | 37.6 | +5.8 | ||
Turnout | 43,020 | 65.4 | −7.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −2.9 |
[edit] Elections in the 1950s
General Election 1950: Smethwick | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Patrick Gordon Walker | 28,750 | 62.1 | −6.7 | |
Conservative | J. Fallon | 17,553 | 37.9 | +6.7 | |
Majority | 11,197 | 24.2 | −13.4 | ||
Turnout | 46,303 | 86.9 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | 6.7 |
General Election 1951: Smethwick | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Patrick Gordon Walker | 27,739 | 60.6 | −1.5 | |
Conservative | A. N. Giles | 18,012 | 39.4 | +1.5 | |
Majority | 9,727 | 21.2 | −3.0 | ||
Turnout | 45,751 | 83.5 | +1.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | 1.5 |
General Election 1955: Smethwick | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Patrick Gordon Walker | 23,151 | 58.2 | −2.5 | |
Conservative | J.J. Wells | 16,656 | 41.8 | +2.5 | |
Majority | 6,495 | 16.3 | −4.9 | ||
Turnout | 39,807 | 75.5 | −8.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | 2.5 |
General Election 1959: Smethwick | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Patrick Gordon Walker | 20,670 | 54.7 | −3.5 | |
Conservative | Peter Griffiths | 17,126 | 45.3 | +3.5 | |
Majority | 3,544 | 9.4 | −4.9 | ||
Turnout | 27,796 | 75.9 | +0.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | 3.5 |
[edit] Elections in the 1960s
General Election 1964: Smethwick | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Peter Griffiths | 16,690 | 47.6 | +2.3 | |
Labour | Patrick Gordon Walker | 14,916 | 42.6 | −12.1 | |
Liberal | D. Hugill | 3,172 | 9.0 | N/A | |
Independent | D. T. Davies | 262 | 0.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,774 | 5.1 | |||
Turnout | 35,040 | 74.1 | −1.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | 7.2 |
General Election 1966: Smethwick | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Andrew Faulds | 18,440 | 54.4 | +11.8 | |
Conservative | Peter Griffiths | 14,950 | 44.1 | −3.5 | |
British National | R. Stanley | 508 | 1.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,490 | 10.3 | |||
Turnout | 33,898 | 75.4 | +1.3 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | −7.6 |
[edit] Elections in the 1970s
General Election 1970: Smethwick | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Andrew Faulds | 16,077 | 52.2 | −2.2 | |
Conservative | B. B. Rathbone | 13,968 | 45.4 | +1.3 | |
Liberal | M. Gupta | 747 | 2.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,109 | 6.9 | −3.4 | ||
Turnout | 30,792 | 68.1 | −7.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | 1.7 |
[edit] See also
- List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies
- Smethwick (the town)
- Smethwick by-election, 1926
- Smethwick by-election, 1945
[edit] References
- Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
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