Birmingham King's Norton was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1955. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election.
Birmingham King's Norton | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1918–1955 | |
Seats | One |
Replaced by | Birmingham Selly Oak and Birmingham Northfield |
The Representation of the People Act 1918 provided that the constituency was to consist of the "Northfield and Selly Oak Wards and the part of King's Norton Ward which is not included in the Moseley Division" in the County Borough of Birmingham.[1]
The Representation of the People Act 1948 provided that the constituency was to consist of the "King's Norton and Moseley and King's Heath wards of the County Borough of Birmingham". Moseley and King's Heath wards had previously been part of the Birmingham Moseley and Birmingham Sparkbrook constituencies, as had the part of King's Norton ward which lay to the north of Bells Lane and to the east and south-east of the middle of Monyhull Hall Road and Brandwood Road. Northfield and Selly Oak wards became the constituency of Birmingham Northfield.[2]
Election | Member[3] | Party | Notes | |
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1918 | Sir Herbert Austin | Coalition Conservative[4] | later Baron Austin | |
1922 | Conservative | |||
1924 | Robert Dennison | Labour | ||
1929 | Lionel Beaumont-Thomas | Conservative | ||
1935 | Ronald Cartland | Conservative | ||
1941 by-election | John Peto | Conservative | ||
1945 | Raymond Blackburn | Labour | ||
1950 | Geoffrey Lloyd | Conservative | later Baron Geoffrey-Lloyd | |
1955 | Constituency abolished |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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C | Unionist | Herbert Austin | 8,809 | 54.5 | |
Co-operative Party | Thomas Hackett | 4,917 | 30.4 | ||
Liberal | Norman Birkett | 2,435 | 15.1 | ||
Majority | 3,892 | 24.1 | |||
Turnout | 16,161 | ||||
Unionist win (new seat) | |||||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Herbert Austin | 8,870 | 41.5 | -13.0 | |
Labour Co-op | Eleanor Barton | 7,017 | 32.8 | +2.4 | |
Liberal | Walter Meakin | 5,474 | 25.6 | +10.5 | |
Majority | 1,853 | 8.7 | -15.4 | ||
Turnout | 21,361 | 74.0 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Herbert Austin | 9,545 | 43.4 | +1.9 | |
Labour Co-op | Eleanor Barton | 6,743 | 30.7 | -2.1 | |
Liberal | Elizabeth Cadbury | 5,686 | 25.9 | +0.3 | |
Majority | 2,802 | 12.7 | +4.0 | ||
Turnout | 21,974 | 74.1 | +0.1 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | +2.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Robert Dennison | 10,497 | 43.3 | +12.6 | |
Unionist | Herbert Austin | 10,364 | 42.8 | -0.6 | |
Liberal | John Fryer | 3,370 | 13.9 | -12.0 | |
Majority | 133 | 0.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 24,231 | 84.9 | +10.8 | ||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Lionel Beaumont-Thomas | 14,464 | 42.0 | -0.8 | |
Labour | Robert Dennison | 13,973 | 40.6 | -2.7 | |
Liberal | Archie Marshall | 5,998 | 17.4 | +3.5 | |
Majority | 491 | 1.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 34,435 | 82.8 | -2.1 | ||
Unionist gain from Labour | Swing | +1.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Lionel Beaumont-Thomas | 22,063 | 57.5 | +15.5 | |
Labour | Gilbert Mitchison | 11,016 | 28.7 | -11.9 | |
Liberal | Archie Marshall | 5,294 | 13.8 | -3.6 | |
Majority | 11,047 | 28.8 | +27.4 | ||
Turnout | 38,373 | 81.0 | -1.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +13.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ronald Cartland | 24,559 | 56.8 | -0.7 | |
Labour | Gilbert Mitchison | 18,684 | 43.2 | +14.5 | |
Majority | 5,875 | 13.6 | -15.2 | ||
Turnout | 43,243 | 74.6 | -6.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Peto | 21,573 | 86.9 | +30.1 | |
Independent | A. W. L. Smith | 1,696 | 6.8 | New | |
Pacifist | Stuart Morris | 1,552 | 6.3 | New | |
Majority | 19,877 | 80.1 | +66.5 | ||
Turnout | 24,821 | 35.0 | -39.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Raymond Blackburn | 32,062 | 55.2 | +12.0 | |
Conservative | John Peto | 19,764 | 34.0 | -22.8 | |
Liberal | Bertram Samuel White | 6,289 | 10.8 | New | |
Majority | 12,298 | 21.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 58,115 | 74.0 | -0.6 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Geoffrey Lloyd | 27,308 | 50.61 | ||
Labour | Albert Bradbeer | 21,715 | 40.24 | ||
Liberal | Michael Beesley | 4,940 | 9.15 | New | |
Majority | 5,593 | 10.37 | |||
Turnout | 53,963 | 84.26 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Geoffrey Lloyd | 30,456 | 57.70 | ||
Labour | Denis Howell | 22,325 | 42.30 | ||
Majority | 8,131 | 15.40 | |||
Turnout | 52,781 | 81.63 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |