Walsall (UK Parliament constituency)

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Walsall Borough constituency
Created:	1832
Abolished:	1955
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Walsall was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Walsall in the West Midlands of England. 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.

Contents 1 History 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 4 References

[edit] History

In 1955 it was abolished and replaced by Walsall North and Walsall South constituencies.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1832	Charles Smith Forster	Conservative
	1837	Francis Finch	Liberal
	1841	John Neilson Gladstone	Conservative
	1841	Robert Scott	Liberal
	1847	Edward Richard Littleton	Liberal
	1852	Sir Charles Forster	Liberal
	1891	Edward Thomas Holden	Liberal
	1892	Frank James	Conservative
	1893	Sir Arthur Divett Hayter	Liberal
	1895	Sydney Gedge	Conservative
	1900	Sir Arthur Divett Hayter	Liberal
	1906	Edward Marten Dunne	Liberal
	1910	Sir Richard Ashmole Cooper	Conservative
	1922	Patrick Collins	Liberal
	1924	Charles William Preston	Conservative
	1929	John James McShane	Labour
	1931	Joseph Alexander Leckie	Liberal (Later National Liberal)
	1938	Sir George Ernest Schuster	National Liberal
	1945	William Thomas Wells	Labour

[edit] Election results

[edit] References

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