Kingswinford (UK Parliament constituency)

Kingswinford
Former constituency
for the House of Commons
18851950
Number of members one

Kingswinford was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Kingswinford in Staffordshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election, when the new Brierley Hill constituency took over much of the area, Brierley Hill Urban District having already absorbed much of Kingswinford Rural District more than a decade earlier.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
1885 Alexander Staveley Hill Conservative
1900 William George Webb Conservative
1905 by-election Henry Staveley-Hill Conservative
1918 Charles Henry Sitch Labour
1931 Alan Livesey Stuart Todd Conservative
1935 Arthur Henderson Labour
1950 constituency abolished: see Brierley Hill

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