Birmingham King's Norton (UK Parliament constituency)

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Birmingham King's Norton
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
1918–1955
Number of members One

Birmingham King's Norton was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1955. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election.

Boundaries

The Representation of the People Act 1918 provided that the constituency was to consist of the "Northfield and Selly Oak Wards and the part of King's Norton Ward which is not included in the Moseley Division" in the County Borough of Birmingham.[1]

The Representation of the People Act 1948 provided that the constituency was to consist of the "King's Norton and Moseley and King's Heath wards of the County Borough of Birmingham". Moseley and King's Heath wards had previously been part of the Birmingham Moseley and Birmingham Sparkbrook constituencies, as had the part of King's Norton ward which lay to the north of Bells Lane and to the east and south-east of the middle of Monyhull Hall Road and Brandwood Road. Northfield and Selly Oak wards became the constituency of Birmingham Northfield.[2]

Members of Parliament

Election Member[3] Party Notes
1918 Sir Herbert Austin Coalition Conservative[4] later Baron Austin
1922 Conservative
1924 Robert Dennison Labour
1929 Lionel Beaumont Thomas Conservative
1935 John Ronald Hamilton Cartland Conservative
1941 by-election Basil Arthur John Peto Conservative
1945 Raymond Blackburn Labour
1950 Geoffrey William Lloyd Conservative later Baron Geoffrey-Lloyd
1955 Constituency abolished

Election results

General Election 1923: Birmingham Kings Norton[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Sir Herbert Austin 9,545 43.4 +1.8
Labour Eleanor Barton 6,743 30.7 -2.1
Liberal Elizabeth Mary Cadbury 5,686 25.9 +0.3
Majority 12.7 +3.9
Turnout 74.1 +0.1
Unionist hold Swing +2.0
General Election 1929: Birmingham Kings Norton[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Lionel Beaumont-Thomas 14,464 42.0 -0.8
Labour Robert Dennison 13,973 40.6 -2.7
Liberal Archibald Pellow Marshall 5,998 17.4 +3.5
Majority 491 1.4 1.9
Turnout 82.8 -2.1
Unionist gain from Labour Swing +1.0
General Election 1931: Birmingham Kings Norton[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Lionel Beaumont-Thomas 22,063 57.5 +15.5
Labour Gilbert Richard Mitchison 11,016 28.7 -11.9
Liberal Archibald Pellow Marshall 5,294 13.8 -3.6
Majority 11,047 28.8 +27.4
Turnout 81.0 -1.8
Conservative hold Swing +13.7

References

  1. ↑ Representation of the People Act 1918, Schedule 9
  2. ↑ Representation of the People Act 1948, Schedule 1
  3. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 2)[self-published source][better source needed]
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F. W. S.
  6. ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F. W. S.
  7. ↑ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F. W. S.

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