Birmingham Moseley
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1918–1950
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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 | |
| Local government in West Midlands | West Midlands |
| 1918–1950 | |
| Seats | One |
| Created from | East Worcestershire |
| Replaced by | Birmingham King's Norton and Birmingham Hall Green |
| During its existence contributed to new seat(s) of | Birmingham Acock's Green |
Boundaries
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.
1918–1945: The county borough of Birmingham wards of Acocks Green and Sparkhill, and parts of the wards of Balsall Heath, Kings Norton, Moseley and King's Heath, and Sparkbrook.[1]
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
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | Sir Hallewell Rogers | Conservative | |
| 1921 by-election | Sir Patrick Hannon | Conservative | |
| 1950 | Constituency abolished | ||
Elections
Elections in the 1910s
| 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 | |||
| Registered electors | |||||
| Unionist win (new seat) | |||||
| C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. | |||||
Elections in the 1920s
| 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 | |||
| 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
| 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
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Patrick Hannon | 22,063 | 51.2 | ||
| Labour | Arthur Leslie Nalder Stephens | 21,070 | 48.8 | ||
| Majority | 993 | 2.4 | |||
| Turnout | 43,133 | 69.7 | |||
| Registered electors | |||||
| Conservative win (new boundaries) | |||||