Birmingham Moseley (UK Parliament constituency)

Birmingham Moseley
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
19181950
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

ElectionMemberParty
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
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