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Dudley Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons 1832–February 1974 Number of members one Dudley was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Dudley, which was historically in Worcestershire, before being transferred into Staffordshire in 1966 and since 1974 has been in the West Midlands.
It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
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History
The borough of Dudley returned two members to Parliament in 1294, Benedict Andrew and Ralph Clerk de Duddlegh, but not to any subsequent one.[1]
The constituency was created by the Reform Act 1832 for the 1832 general election. It was abolished for the February 1974 general election, when it was replaced by the new Dudley East and Dudley West constituencies and expanded beyond the town's boundaries to include Coseley and half of Sedgley in Dudley East (previously in the old Bilston constituency), as well as Kingswinford, Brierley Hill, and half of Sedgley in Dudley West. All of these areas had been incorporated into the Dudley borough in 1966.
Members of Parliament
Election Member Party 1832 Sir John Campbell Whig 1834 Thomas Hawkes 1844 John Benbow 1855 Sir Stafford Henry Northcote Conservative 1857 Henry Brinsley Sheridan 1886 Brooke Robinson 1906 Arthur George Hooper Liberal 1910 Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen Conservative 1921 by-election James Wilson Labour 1922 Cyril Lloyd Conservative 1929 Oliver Baldwin Labour 1931 Dudley Joel Conservative 1941 by-election Cyril Lloyd Conservative 1945 George Wigg Labour 1968 by-election Donald Williams Conservative 1970 John Gilbert Labour Feb 1974 constituency abolished: see Dudley East and Dudley West Election results
December 1910 General Election: Dudley Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative Arthur Griffith-Boscawen 8,260 Liberal Arthur George Hooper 7,900 Majority 360 Conservative gain from Liberal Swing Turnout See also
References
- ^ Treadway Russell Nash, History and Antiquities of the County of Worcester I (1781), introduction, xxxii.
Categories:- Politics of Dudley
- Parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (county) (historic)
- Parliamentary constituencies in Worcestershire (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1832
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1974
- United Kingdom historical constituency stubs
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