Wolverhampton West (UK Parliament constituency)

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Wolverhampton West Borough constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1950
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Wolverhampton West was a parliamentary constituency in the town of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands of England. 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 Election results 5 See also 6 References

[edit] History

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, when the former two-seat Wolverhampton constituency was divided into three single-member constituencies.

It was abolished for the 1950 general election.

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Alfred Hickman	Conservative
	1886	Sir William Chichele Plowden	Liberal
	1892	Sir Alfred Hickman	Conservative
	1906	Thomas Frederick Richards
	1910	Sir Alfred Frederick Bird	Conservative
	1922	Sir Robert Bland Bird	Conservative
	1929	William Brown	Labour
	1931	Sir Robert Bland Bird	Conservative
	1945	Herbert Delauney Hughes	Labour
1950		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

[edit] See also

• Former Wolverhampton MPs
• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Wolverhampton

[edit] References

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