Brierley Hill (UK Parliament constituency)

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Brierley Hill
Former county constituency
for the House of Commons
1950–February 1974
Seatsone
Created from Cannock and Kingswinford
Replaced by Dudley West, Wolverhampton South West, South West Staffordshire & Halesowen and Stourbridge

Brierley Hill parliamentary constituency was located in the West Midlands of England. 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 system.

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History

The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election.

Boundaries

The seat was named after a town in the historic county of Staffordshire in the West Midlands of England.

It consisted of four local government areas, the Urban Districts of Amblecote, Brierley Hill, and Tettenhall as well as the Rural District of Seisdon, as they existed in 1948.

Before 1950 much of the area (Amblecote and Brierley Hill) had been part of the Kingswinford constituency. The rest (Tettenhall and Seisdon) were part of Cannock constituency.

In the redistribution which took effect in early 1974, this constituency was abolished. There had been changes in local government arrangements since 1950, so most of the area of the old seat had been divided between the County Boroughs of Dudley and Wolverhampton. The Brierley Hill ward of Dudley became part of the Dudley West constituency, whereas the Tettenhall Regis and Tettenhall Wightwick wards of Wolverhampton were part of the Wolverhampton South West seat. Seisdon became part of the South West Staffordshire division. Most of Amblecote had been included in the Worcestershire Municipal Borough of Stourbridge, so it became part of the Halesowen and Stourbridge parliamentary constituency.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberPartyNotes
1950 Charles Simmons Labour
1959 John Talbot Conservative Died January 1967
1967 by-election Fergus Montgomery Conservative
Feb 1974 constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1950: Brierley Hill [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Charles Simmons 24,302 50.32
Conservative Rolf Dudley-Williams 19,66540.72
Liberal Thomas Patrick Hanley4,3298.96
Majority 4,6379.60
Turnout 48,29685.45
Labour win (new seat)
General election 1951: Brierley Hill [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Charles Simmons 25,510 52.36
Conservative John Dalley23,21247.64
Majority 2,2984.72
Turnout 48,72285.00
Labour hold Swing
General election 1955: Brierley Hill [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Charles Simmons 25,013 50.97
Conservative W Howard Green24,06449.03
Majority 9491.93
Turnout 49,07778.93
Labour hold Swing
General election 1959: Brierley Hill [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative J. E. Talbot 31,202 53.55
Labour Charles Simmons 27,06946.45
Majority 4,1337.10N/A
Turnout 58,27181.89
Conservative gain from Labour Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1964: Brierley Hill [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative J. E. Talbot 33,370 52.01
Labour Peter Archer 28,96845.15
Independent
  • William Brown
1,8202.84New
Majority 4,4026.86
Turnout 64,15879.98
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1966: Brierley Hill [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative J. E. Talbot 34,026 51.18
Labour Katharine C Rogers32,45948.82
Majority 1,5672.36
Turnout 66,48578.95
Conservative hold Swing
1967 Brierley Hill by-election [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Fergus Montgomery 31,371 53.75 +2.57
Labour Derek Forwood21,15136.24−12.58
Liberal Michael Steed 4,5367.77New
All Party Alliance John Creasey 1,3052.24New
Majority 10,22017.51+15.15
Turnout 58,363
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1970: Brierley Hill [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Fergus Montgomery 43,440 60.63
Labour Thomas Pritchard28,20339.37
Majority 15,23721.27
Turnout 71,64373.29
Conservative hold Swing

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Craig 1971 [ page needed ]
  2. "1967 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 29 March 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2015.

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