Birmingham Moseley (UK Parliament constituency)

Birmingham Moseley
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1918–1950
Number of members	One

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.

Boundaries

Berween 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. It comprised the then City Council wards of Acock's Green and Sparkhill, with parts of the wards of Balsall Heath, King's Norton, Moseley and King's Heath, and Sparkbrook.

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 Acock's Green ward became part of the new seat of Birmingham Acock's Green. The remainder of the previous Moseley remained as that division, comprising the Moseley and King's Heath, and Sparkhill wards with part of King's Norton ward.

As a result of the first general review, the Moseley division disappeared at the United Kingdom general election, 1950.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Sir Hallewell Rogers	Coalition Conservative
	1921 by-election	Sir Patrick Hannon	Coalition Conservative
	1922		Conservative
	1950	Constituency abolished

Election results

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General Election 1923: Birmingham Moseley [1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Patrick Joseph Henry Hannon	19,628	71.3	n/a
	Labour	Mrs Janet Clarkson	7,904	28.7	n/a
Majority				42.6	n/a
Turnout				63.1	n/a
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1929: Birmingham Moseley [2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Patrick Joseph Henry Hannon	33,820	56.7
	Labour	Frank George Bushnell	15,733	26.4
	Liberal	A.M. Meek	9,388	15.7
	Independent Labour	G. Brigden	675	1.1
Majority			18,087	30.3
Turnout			59,616
	Unionist hold		Swing

References

1. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
2. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig

• Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
• Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 3)