Brierley Hill | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
1950–February 1974 | |
Number of members | one |
Replaced by | Dudley West, Wolverhampton South West, South West Staffordshire & Halesowen and Stourbridge |
Created from | Cannock and Kingswinford |
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.
The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election.
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.
Election | Member | Party | Notes | |
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1950 | Charles Simmons | Labour | ||
1959 | John Talbot | Conservative | Died January 1967 | |
1967 by-election | Fergus Montgomery | Conservative | ||
Feb 1974 | constituency abolished |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Charles Simmons | 24,302 | 50.32 | ||
Conservative | Rolf Dudley-Williams | 19,665 | 40.72 | ||
Liberal | Thomas Patrick Hanley | 4,329 | 8.96 | ||
Majority | 4,637 | 9.60 | |||
Turnout | 48,296 | 85.45 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Charles Simmons | 25,510 | 52.36 | ||
Conservative | John Dalley | 23,212 | 47.64 | ||
Majority | 2,298 | 4.72 | |||
Turnout | 48,722 | 85.00 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Charles Simmons | 25,013 | 50.97 | ||
Conservative | W Howard Green | 24,064 | 49.03 | ||
Majority | 949 | 1.93 | |||
Turnout | 49,077 | 78.93 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | J. E. Talbot | 31,202 | 53.55 | ||
Labour | Charles Simmons | 27,069 | 46.45 | ||
Majority | 4,133 | 7.10 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 58,271 | 81.89 | |||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | J. E. Talbot | 33,370 | 52.01 | ||
Labour | Peter Archer | 28,968 | 45.15 | ||
Independent |
| 1,820 | 2.84 | New | |
Majority | 4,402 | 6.86 | |||
Turnout | 64,158 | 79.98 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | J. E. Talbot | 34,026 | 51.18 | ||
Labour | Katharine C Rogers | 32,459 | 48.82 | ||
Majority | 1,567 | 2.36 | |||
Turnout | 66,485 | 78.95 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Fergus Montgomery | 31,371 | 53.75 | +2.57 | |
Labour | Derek Forwood | 21,151 | 36.24 | -12.58 | |
Liberal | Michael Steed | 4,536 | 7.77 | New | |
All Party Alliance | John Creasey | 1,305 | 2.24 | New | |
Majority | 10,220 | 17.51 | |||
Turnout | 58,363 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Fergus Montgomery | 43,440 | 60.63 | ||
Labour | Thomas Pritchard | 28,203 | 39.37 | ||
Majority | 15,237 | 21.27 | |||
Turnout | 71,643 | 73.29 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
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