Brierley Hill (UK Parliament constituency)
Brierley Hill | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
1950–February 1974 | |
Seats | one |
Created from | Cannock and Kingswinford |
Replaced by | Dudley West, Wolverhampton South West, South West Staffordshire & Halesowen and Stourbridge |
Brierley Hill
first past the post
system.
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
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
Municipal Borough of Stourbridge, so it became part of the Halesowen and Stourbridge
parliamentary constituency.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
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
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
- Anti-Common Market
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
See also
References
- ^ British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
- ^ British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
- ^ British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
- ^ F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1973
- ^ F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1973
- ^ British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
- ^ "1967 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 29 March 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- ^ British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
- Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1983)
- Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume IV 1945-1979, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1981)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 5)