Wolverhampton South (UK Parliament constituency)

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Wolverhampton South Borough constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1918
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Wolverhampton South 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 1918 general election.

[edit] Boundaries

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[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Charles Pelham Villiers	Liberal
	1886		Liberal Unionist
	1898	John Lloyd Gibbons	Liberal Unionist
	1900	Sir Henry Norman	Liberal
	Jan. 1910	Thomas Edgcumbe Hickman	Conservative
1918		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

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[edit] See also

• List of Members of Parliament for Wolverhampton
• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Wolverhampton

[edit] References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page