Kingswinford (UK Parliament constituency)

Kingswinford
Former constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1950
Number of members	one

Kingswinford was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Kingswinford in Staffordshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election, when the new Brierley Hill constituency took over much of the area, Brierley Hill Urban District having already absorbed much of Kingswinford Rural District more than a decade earlier.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Alexander Staveley Hill	Conservative
	1900	William George Webb	Conservative
	1905 by-election	Henry Staveley-Hill	Conservative
	1918	Charles Henry Sitch	Labour
	1931	Alan Livesey Stuart Todd	Conservative
	1935	Arthur Henderson	Labour
1950		constituency abolished: see Brierley Hill

Election results

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1923: Kingswinford [1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles Henry Sitch	15,174	49.5
	Unionist	William Harcourt-Webb	10,862	35.4	n/a
	Liberal	Cecil Patrick Blackwell	4,633	15.1	n/a
Majority			4,312	14.1
Turnout			30,669
	Labour hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1929: Kingswinford [2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles Henry Sitch	22,479	53.2
	Unionist	Sidney Emile Garcke	12,151	28.7
	Liberal	Alfred William Bowkett	7,639	18.1
Majority			10,328	24.5
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Kingswinford[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alan Livesey Stuart Todd	21,934	52.94
	Labour	Charles Henry Sitch	19,495	47.06
Majority			2,439	5.89
Turnout				75.14
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1935: Kingswinford[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Henderson	20,925	50.02
	Conservative	Alan Livesey Stuart Todd	20,909	49.98
Majority			16	0.04
Turnout				71.52
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Kingswinford[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Henderson	34,307	69.16
	Conservative	G Taylor	15,297	30.84
Majority			19,010	38.32
Turnout				73.71
	Labour hold		Swing

References

1. The Liberal Year Book, 1926
2. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
3. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
4. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.
5. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 2)