Dudley (UK Parliament constituency)

Dudley (UK Parliament constituency)
Dudley
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
1832 (1832)February 1974 (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

  1. ^ Treadway Russell Nash, History and Antiquities of the County of Worcester I (1781), introduction, xxxii.



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