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 borough 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 4.1 Elections in the 1910s 4.2 Elections in the 1920s 4.3 Elections in the 1930s 4.4 Elections in the 1940s 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, when it was largely replaced by the new Wolverhampton South West constituency.

[edit] Boundaries

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[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 by-election	Sir Robert Bland Bird, Bt.	Conservative
	1929	William Brown 1	Labour
	1929		Independent Labour
	1931	Sir Robert Bland Bird, Bt.	Conservative
	1945	Herbert Delauney "Billy" Hughes	Labour
1950		constituency abolished: see Wolverhampton South West

¹ Brown was elected in 1929, as a Labour Party candidate, but later sat as an "Independent Labour" MP. He sought re-election in 1931 and 1935 as an Independent Labour candidate, opposed in 1935 by an official Labour Party candidate, but lost on both occasions

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Wolverhampton West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Conservative	Sir Alfred Frederick Bird	13,329	58.8	N/A
	Labour	Alexander Walkden	10,158	42.2	N/A
Majority			3,171	13.6	N/A
Turnout			23,487	63.3	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

[edit] Elections in the 1920s

By-election, March 1922: Wolverhampton West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Conservative	Sir Robert Bird, Bt.	16,790	54.9	−1.9
	Labour	Alexander Walkden	13,799	45.1	+1.9
Majority			2,991	9.8	−3.8
Turnout			30,589	80.0	+16.7
	Coalition Conservative hold		Swing	−1.9

General Election, November 1922: Wolverhampton West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Robert Bird, Bt.	17,738	53.9	−1.0
	Labour	Alexander Walkden	15,190	46.1	+1.0
Majority			2,548	7.8	−2.0
Turnout			32,928	83.5	+3.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	−1.0

General Election, 1923: Wolverhampton West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Robert Bird, Bt.	15,990	50.4	−3.5
	Labour	William John Brown	15,749	49.6	+3.5
Majority			241	0.8	−7.0
Turnout			31,739	79.5	−4.0
	Conservative hold		Swing	−3.5

General Election, 1924: Wolverhampton West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Robert Bird, Bt.	17,886	51.2	+0.8
	Labour	William John Brown	17,046	48.8	−0.8
Majority			840	2.4	−
Turnout			34,932	85.9	+6.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.8

General Election, 1929: Wolverhampton West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William John Brown	21,103	49.1	+0.3
	Conservative	Sir Robert Bird, Bt.	17,237	40.2	−11.2
	Liberal	G. H. Roberts	4,580	10.7	N/A
Majority			3,866	8.9	N/A
Turnout			42,920	84.1	−1.8
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	+6.8

[edit] Elections in the 1930s

General Election, 1931: Wolverhampton West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Robert Bird, Bt.	26,181	60.5	+20.3
	Independent Labour	William John Brown	17,090	39.5	−9.6
Majority			9,091	21.0	N/A
Turnout			43,271	84.3	+0.2
	Conservative gain from Independent Labour		Swing	+15.0

General Election, 1935: Wolverhampton West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Robert Bird, Bt.	19,697	54.9	−5.7
	Independent Labour	William John Brown	14,867	41.4	+0.9
	Labour	Rev. R. Lee	1,325	3.7	N/A
Majority			4,830	13.5	−7.5
Turnout			35,889	72.4	−9.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	+3.3

[edit] Elections in the 1940s

General Election, 1945: Wolverhampton West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Herbert Delauney "Billy" Hughes	21,186	59.9	N/A
	Conservative	J. Beattie	14,176	40.1	−14.8
Majority			7,010	19.8	−
Turnout			35,362	74.8	+2.4
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	+7.4

[edit] See also

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

[edit] References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page