Bilston (UK Parliament constituency)

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Bilston
Borough constituency
Created: 1950
Abolished: 1974
Type: House of Commons
Members: one
Wolverhampton Bilston
Borough constituency
Created: 1918
Abolished: 1950
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.

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[edit] History

The area was created, as a Staffordshire borough constituency, for the 1918 general election. It was named as a division of Wolverhampton. From the 1950 general election the Wolverhampton prefix was dropped from the official constituency name. The seat was abolished for the February 1974 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Wolverhampton South East constituency.

[edit] Boundaries

1918-1950: The constituency consisted of the then Urban Districts of Bilston, Coseley and Sedgley.

1950-1974: By 1950 Bilston was a Municipal Borough. Coseley and Sedgley were still Urban Districts in the constituency. In 1955 there were some changes to the boundaries of the two Urban Districts.

[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] Election results

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[edit] See also

[edit] References

  • Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
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