SMETHWICK (UK PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCY)


'Smethwick' was a parliamentary constituency, centred on the town of Smethwick in the West Midlands county. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.
The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election.

Contents
Boundaries
Members of Parliament
Election results
Elections in the 1910s
Elections in the 1920s
Elections in the 1930s
Elections in the 1940s
Elections in the 1950s
Elections in the 1960s
Elections in the 1970s
See also
References

Boundaries


Members of Parliament


ElectionMemberParty
1918 John Emanuel Davison Labour
1923
1923
1924
1926 Sir Oswald Mosley Labour
1929
''1931'' New Party
1931 Alfred Wise Conservative
1935
1945 Alfred Dobbs Labour
1945 Patrick Gordon Walker Labour
1950
1951
1955
1959
1964 Peter Griffiths Conservative
1966 Andrew Faulds Labour
1970
1974 ''constituency abolished: see Warley East''

Election results


Elections in the 1910s

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 1940s

Elections in the 1950s

Elections in the 1960s

Elections in the 1970s

See also



List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies

Smethwick (the town)

Smethwick by-election, 1926

Smethwick by-election, 1945

References



British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, , F. W. S., Craig, Parliamentary Research Services, 1983, ISBN 0-900178-06-X



This article provided by Wikipedia. To edit the contents of this article, click here for original source.

psst.. try this: add to faves