Birmingham East (UK Parliament constituency)

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Birmingham East
Borough constituency
Created: 1885
Abolished: 1918
Type: House of Commons
Members: one

Birmingham East is a former parliamentary constituency in the city of Birmingham, England. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created in upon the abolition of the Birmingham constituency in 1885, and was itself abolished for the 1918 general election.

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[edit] Boundaries

Before 1885 the city of Birmingham, in the county of Warwickshire, had been a three-member constituency (see Birmingham (UK Parliament constituency) for further details). Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 the parliamentary borough of Birmingham was split into seven single-member divisions, one of which was Birmingham East.

The division was bounded to the west by Birmingham North, to the north by Aston Manor, to the east by Tamworth and to the south (from west to east) by Birmingham Central, Birmingham South and Birmingham Bordesley.

In the 1918 redistribution of parliamentary seats, the Representation of the People Act 1918 provided for twelve new Birmingham divisions. The East division was abolished.

[edit] Members of Parliament

  • Constituency created (1885)
Year Member Party
1885 William Thomas Gustavus Cook Liberal
1886 Henry Matthews Conservative
1895 Sir John Benjamin Stone Conservative
1910 Arthur Steel-Maitland Conservative
  • Constituency abolished (1918)

[edit] Elections

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[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