Birmingham Handsworth (UK Parliament constituency)

Birmingham Handsworth
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
County West Midlands
1918–1983
Number of members One
Replaced by Birmingham Ladywood, Birmingham Perry Barr and Birmingham Small Heath[1]
Handsworth
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1885–1918

Birmingham Handsworth was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Handsworth district of Birmingham. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was abolished in 1983.

Boundaries

1885-1918: The Sessional Divisions of Rushall Tipton, Wednesbury, and West Bromwich, and the Municipal Borough of Walsall. The constituency was created, as a county constituency, for the 1885 general election when it was the Handsworth division of Staffordshire. In 1885 the area was to the north of the parliamentary borough of Birmingham and was the south-eastern county division of Staffordshire. Birmingham, which from 1889 was a county borough, with city status, was mostly located in the geographic county of Warwickshire, but gradually expanded into adjacent areas of Staffordshire and Worcestershire.

The constituency bordered to the west West Bromwich, Wednesbury and Walsall; to the north Lichfield; to the east Tamworth and to the south Birmingham West and Birmingham North.

1918-1955: The County Borough of Birmingham wards of Handsworth, Sandwell, and Soho. By 1918 the Handsworth area had been incorporated within the growing city of Birmingham. For the 1918 general election it became a borough constituency as Birmingham Handsworth.

1955-1974: The County Borough of Birmingham wards of Handsworth, Lozells, and Sandwell. Lozells ward was formerly in Birmingham Aston. Soho ward became part of Birmingham All Saints.

1974-1983: The County Borough of Birmingham wards of Aston, Handsworth, and Sandwell.

The constituency disappeared at the 1983 general election. Sandwell ward became 32.9% of Birmingham Ladywood, Handsworth ward became 24.8% of Birmingham Perry Barr and Aston ward became 11.9% of Birmingham Small Heath.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
1885 Sir Henry Wiggin Liberal
1886 Liberal Unionist
1892 Sir Henry Meysey-Thompson Liberal Unionist
1906 Ernest Meysey-Thompson Liberal Unionist
1912 Conservative
1918 Coalition Conservative
1922 Oliver Locker-Lampson Conservative
1945 Harold Roberts Conservative
1950 by-election Sir Edward Boyle Conservative
1970 Sydney Chapman Conservative
Feb 1974 John Lee Labour
1979 Sheila Wright Labour
1983 constituency abolished: see Birmingham Ladywood, Birmingham Perry Barr and Birmingham Small Heath

Election results

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1923: Birmingham Handsworth [2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson n/a n/a n/a
Unionist hold Swing n/a
General Election 1929: Birmingham Handsworth [3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson 22,036 53.9
Labour Louis Anderson Fenn 11,969 29.3
Liberal Arthur Gordan Bagnall 6,857 16.8 n/a
Majority 10,067 24.6
Turnout
Unionist hold Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1931: Birmingham Handsworth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Oliver Locker-Lampson 30,989 78.4
Labour LA Fenn 8,548 21.6
Majority 22,441 56.8
Turnout 75.1
General election 1935: Birmingham Handsworth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Oliver Locker-Lampson 24,135 73.0
Labour A Chattaway 8,910 27.0
Majority 15,225 46.1
Turnout 61.7

Elections in the 1940s

General election 1945: Birmingham Handsworth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Harold Roberts 15,607 37.9
Labour Cyril Raymond Bence 13,142 34.3
Independent Norman Tiptaft 5,112 12.4
Liberal Barbara Estelle Lewis 4,945 12.0
Communist J Eden 1,390 3.4
Majority 1,465 3.6
Turnout 72.5

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1950: Birmingham Handsworth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Harold Roberts 24,246 50.6
Labour Cyril Raymond Bence 18,774 39.2
Liberal Ronald William Eades 4,926 10.3
Majority 5,472 11.4
Turnout 83.1
By-election, 1950
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sir Edward Boyle 22,083
Labour Cyril Raymond Bence 13,852
Independent SW Keatley 453
Majority 8,231
General election 1951: Birmingham Handsworth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sir Edward Boyle 27,201 59.5
Labour RW Evely 18,494 40.5
Majority 8,707 19.1
Turnout 79
General election 1955: Birmingham Handsworth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sir Edward Boyle 24,349 60.0
Labour A Murie 14,064 34.7
Peace SW Keatley 2,148 5.3
Majority 10,285 25.4
Turnout 69.6
General election 1959: Birmingham Handsworth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sir Edward Boyle 23,243 60.8
Labour A Murie 13,116 34.3
Independent SW Keatley 1,867 4.9
Majority 10,127 26.5
Turnout 68.8

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1964: Birmingham Handsworth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sir Edward Boyle 16,841 47.5
Labour Sheila Rosemary Rivers Wright 11,909 33.6
Liberal Wallace Leslie Lawler 6,249 17.6
Independent SW Keatley 459 1.3
Majority 4,932 13.9
Turnout 66.6
General election 1966: Birmingham Handsworth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sir Edward Boyle 16,225 49.9
Labour Sheila Rosemary Rivers Wright 14,931 46.0
Union Movement EJ Hamm 1,337 4.1
Majority 1,294 4.0
Turnout 63.2

Election in the 1970s

General election 1970: Birmingham Handsworth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sydney Brookes Chapman 16,122 53.0
Labour Sheila Rosemary Rivers Wright 14,310 47.0
Majority 1,812 6.0
Turnout 65.2
General election February 1974: Birmingham Handsworth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour John Michael Hubert Lee 14,290 43.5
Conservative Sydney Brookes Chapman 12,667 38.6
Liberal P Tilsley 5,566 16.9
Marxist-Leninist (England) S. Thompson 334 1.0
Majority 1,623 4.9
Turnout 72.4
General election October 1974: Birmingham Handsworth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour John Michael Hubert Lee 15,011 49.4
Conservative R Tyler 11,115 37.0
Liberal DI Grant-Smith 3,205 10.6
More Prosperous Britain Tom Keen 105 0.3
Marxist-Leninist (England) J. L. Hutchinson 103 0.3
Majority 3,896 12.8
Turnout 66.5
General election 1979: Birmingham Handsworth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Sheila Rosemary Rivers Wright 16,998 55.2
Conservative R Tyler 13,789 44.8
Majority 3,209 10.4
Turnout 68.4

See also

References

  1. ↑ "'Birmingham Handsworth', Feb 1974 - May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
  2. ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  3. ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
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