Birmingham Moseley was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1950. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election.
| Birmingham Moseley | |
|---|---|
| Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
| 1918–1950 | |
| Seats | One |
| Created from | Birmingham South and Birmingham Bordesley |
| Replaced by | Birmingham King's Norton and Birmingham Hall Green |
Boundaries
edit1918–1945: The county borough of Birmingham wards of Acocks Green and Sparkhill, and parts of the wards of Balsall Heath, King's Norton, Moseley and King's Heath, and Sparkbrook.[1]
Between 1885 and 1918 the parliamentary borough of Birmingham was split into seven single-member divisions. The Representation of the People Act 1918 provided for a redistribution of Birmingham into twelve constituencies, one of which was Birmingham Moseley. Moseley was the south-westernmost of the Birmingham seats established in 1918.
1945–1950: The county borough of Birmingham wards of Moseley and King's Heath, and Sparkhill, and the part of the King's Norton ward in the existing constituency.[2]
By the 1935 United Kingdom general election, the electorate of the Moseley division exceeded 100,000 voters. Towards the end of the Second World War it was decided to instruct the Boundary Commission for England to prepare a scheme to divide the seats with more than 100,000 voters. This was provided for by the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1944, as an interim measure before the first general review of all the constituencies took place later in the decade.
At the 1945 United Kingdom general election, the constituency was divided into two. The Acock's Green and Hall Green wards became part of the new seat of Birmingham Acock's Green. The remainder of the previous Moseley remained as that division.
As a result of the first general review, the Moseley division disappeared at the 1950 United Kingdom general election.
Members of Parliament
edit| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | Sir Hallewell Rogers | Coalition Conservative | |
| 1921 by-election | Sir Patrick Hannon | Coalition Conservative | |
| 1922 | Conservative | ||
| 1950 | Constituency abolished | ||
Elections
editElections in the 1910s
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | Unionist | Hallewell Rogers | 16,161 | 69.2 | |
| Labour | Robert Dunstan | 3,789 | 16.2 | ||
| Liberal | Wilfred Hill | 3,422 | 14.6 | ||
| Majority | 12,372 | 53.0 | |||
| Turnout | 23,372 | 56.3 | |||
| Unionist win (new seat) | |||||
| C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. | |||||
Elections in the 1920s
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | Unionist | Patrick Hannon | Unopposed | ||
| Unionist hold | |||||
| C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unionist | Patrick Hannon | Unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
| Unionist hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unionist | Patrick Hannon | 19,628 | 71.3 | N/A | |
| Liberal | Janet Clarkson | 7,904 | 28.7 | New | |
| Majority | 11,724 | 42.6 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 27,532 | 63.1 | N/A | ||
| Unionist hold | Swing | N/A | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unionist | Patrick Hannon | 24,333 | 77.2 | +5.9 | |
| Labour | George Pearce Blizard | 7,183 | 22.8 | New | |
| Majority | 17,150 | 54.4 | +11.8 | ||
| Turnout | 31,516 | 70.2 | +7.1 | ||
| Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unionist | Patrick Hannon | 33,820 | 56.8 | -20.4 | |
| Labour | Frank George Bushnell | 15,733 | 26.4 | +3.6 | |
| Liberal | Arthur Mark Meek | 9,388 | 15.7 | New | |
| Independent Labour | George Brigden | 675 | 1.1 | New | |
| Majority | 18,087 | 30.4 | -24.0 | ||
| Turnout | 59,616 | 73.1 | +2.9 | ||
| Unionist hold | Swing | -12.0 | |||
Elections in the 1930s
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Patrick Hannon | 53,041 | 79.8 | +23.0 | |
| Labour | Frank G. Lloyd | 13,399 | 20.2 | -6.2 | |
| Majority | 39,642 | 59.6 | +29.2 | ||
| Turnout | 66,440 | 72.1 | -1.0 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +14.6 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Patrick Hannon | 43,885 | 71.4 | -8.4 | |
| Labour | Julius Silverman | 17,543 | 28.6 | +8.4 | |
| Majority | 26,342 | 42.8 | -16.8 | ||
| Turnout | 61,428 | 60.7 | -11.4 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | -8.4 | |||
General Election 1939–40
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;
- Conservative: Patrick Hannon
- Labour: Miss J S Wells[5]
Elections in the 1940s
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Patrick Hannon | 22,063 | 51.2 | -20.2 | |
| Labour | Arthur Leslie Nalder Stephens | 21,070 | 48.8 | +20.2 | |
| Majority | 993 | 2.4 | -40.4 | ||
| Turnout | 43,133 | 69.7 | +9.0 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | -20.2 | |||
References
edit- ^ Fraser, Hugh (1918). The Representation of the People Act, 1918: with explanatory notes. London: Sweet and Maxwell.
- ^ "The House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Order 1945. SI 1945/701". Statutory Rules and Orders 1945. Vol. I. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1946. pp. 682–698.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1922
- ^ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
- Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
- Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 3)