Dudley (UK Parliament constituency)
Dudley | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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1832–February 1974 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Dudley East Dudley West |
Dudley was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Dudley in Worcestershire (now 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.
Contents
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, which expanded beyond the town's historic boundaries to include Coseley and part of Sedgley in Dudley East (previously in the old Bilston constituency), as well as Kingswinford, Brierley Hill, and the remainder of Sedgley in Dudley West. All of these areas had been incorporated into the Dudley borough in 1966.[2]
Members of Parliament
Election results
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Brooke Robinson | 6461 | |||
Liberal | W. Belcher | 5876 | |||
Majority | 585 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Arthur George Hooper | 8,296 | 52.4 | +4.8 | |
Conservative | Gilbert Henry Claughton | 7,542 | 47.6 | -4.8 | |
Majority | 754 | 4.8 | 9.6 | ||
Turnout | 90.2 | +12.4 | |||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +4.8 |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Arthur Griffith-Boscawen | 8,260 | |||
Liberal | Arthur George Hooper | 7,900 | |||
Majority | 360 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | ||||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | 9,126 | 60.2 | |||
Labour | William Bridgland Steer | 6,048 | 39.8 | ||
Majority | 3,080 | 20.4 | |||
Turnout | 60.4 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
- endorsed by the Coalition Government
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | James Wilson | 10,244 | 50.7 | ||
Unionist | Rt Hon Sir Arthur Sackville Trevor Griffith-Boscawen | 49.3 | |||
Majority | 276 | 1.4 | |||
Turnout | 79.9 | ||||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Cyril Edward Lloyd | 12,876 | 60.2 | ||
Labour | James Wilson | 8,522 | 39.8 | ||
Majority | 4,354 | 20.4 | |||
Turnout | 82.5 | ||||
Unionist gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Cyril Edward Lloyd | 10,227 | 49.4 | -10.8 | |
Liberal | F J Ballard | 8,510 | 41.1 | n/a | |
Labour | R F Smith | 1,958 | 9.5 | -30.3 | |
Majority | 1,717 | 8.3 | -12.1 | ||
Turnout | 78.9 | -3.6 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Cyril Edward Lloyd | 11,199 | 52.1 | ||
Labour | Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin | 10,314 | 47.9 | ||
Majority | 885 | 4.2 | |||
Turnout | 80.2 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin | 13,551 | 47.6 | -0.3 | |
Unionist | Cyril Edward Lloyd | 10,508 | 36.9 | -15.2 | |
Liberal | Thomas Illingworth Clough | 4,399 | 15.5 | n/a | |
Majority | 3,043 | 10.7 | 14.9 | ||
Turnout | 81.6 | +1.4 | |||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | +7.6 |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Dudley Jack Barnato Joel | 16,009 | 56.94 | ||
Labour | W Hodgkiss | 12,105 | 43.06 | ||
Majority | 3,904 | 13.89 | |||
Turnout | 80.75 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Dudley Jack Barnato Joel | 13,958 | 54.81 | ||
Labour | Rt Hon. William Wedgwood Benn | 11,509 | 45.19 | ||
Majority | 2,449 | 9.62 | |||
Turnout | 75.29 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1940s
General Election 1939/40
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;
- Conservative: Dudley Jack Barnato Joel
- Labour: Leonard Freedman[11]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Cyril Edward Lloyd | 6,234 | 56.1 | +1.3 | |
Independent | Noel Pemberton Billing | 4,869 | 43.9 | n/a | |
Majority | 1,365 | 12.2 | +2.6 | ||
Turnout | 34.7 | -40.6 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Rt Hon. George Edward Cecil Wigg | 15,439 | 62.77 | ||
Conservative | Esme Tatton Cecil Brinton | 9,156 | 37.23 | ||
Majority | 6,283 | 25.55 | |||
Turnout | 73.81 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Rt Hon. George Edward Cecil Wigg | 32,856 | 54.62 | ||
Conservative | Roy Alexander Farran | 19,825 | 32.96 | ||
Liberal | Bertram Samuel White | 7,470 | 12.42 | ||
Majority | 13,031 | 21.66 | |||
Turnout | 86.83 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Rt Hon. George Edward Cecil Wigg | 34,376 | 58.36 | ||
Conservative | Harold Benjamin Soref | 24,525 | 41.64 | ||
Majority | 9,851 | 16.72 | |||
Turnout | 83.65 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Rt Hon. George Edward Cecil Wigg | 31,384 | 54.87 | ||
Conservative | Thomas Douglas Wilson | 20,333 | 35.55 | ||
Liberal | Wallace Leslie Lawler | 5,479 | 9.58 | ||
Majority | 11,051 | 19.32 | |||
Turnout | 79.83 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Rt Hon. George Edward Cecil Wigg | 31,826 | 54.94 | ||
Conservative | Frank E. Spiller | 26,101 | 45.06 | ||
Majority | 5,725 | 9.88 | |||
Turnout | 79.54 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Rt Hon. George Edward Cecil Wigg | 30,250 | 53.20 | ||
Conservative | David Arthur Russell Howell | 19,980 | 35.02 | ||
Liberal | Robert CS Fowler | 6,829 | 11.97 | ||
Majority | 10,270 | 18.00 | |||
Turnout | 76.53 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Rt Hon. George Edward Cecil Wigg | 32,693 | 59.1 | ||
Conservative | William Donald Williams | 22,671 | 40.9 | ||
Majority | 10,022 | 18.1 | |||
Turnout | 55,364 | 73.9 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Donald Williams | 28,016 | 58.1 | +17.2 | |
Labour | John William Gilbert | 16,360 | 34.0 | −25.1 | |
Liberal | Derek Bird | 3,809 | 7.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 11,656 | 24.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 48,185 | 63.5 | -10.4 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +21.2 |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John William Gilbert | 29,499 | 50.29 | ||
Conservative | William Donald Williams | 29,163 | 49.71 | ||
Majority | 336 | 0.57 | |||
Turnout | 71.92 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
See also
References
- ↑ Treadway Russell Nash, History and Antiquities of the County of Worcester I (1781), introduction, xxxii.
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- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885–1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- 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