Birmingham East (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Birmingham East | |
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| Former Borough constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
| County | Warwickshire |
| 1885–1918 | |
| Number of members | One |
| Created from | Birmingham |
Birmingham East was a parliamentary constituency in the city of Birmingham, England. 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 voting system.
The constituency was created upon the abolition of the Birmingham constituency in 1885, and was itself abolished for the 1918 general election.
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[edit] Boundaries
Before 1885 Birmingham, in the county of Warwickshire, had been a three-member constituency (see Birmingham (UK Parliament constituency) for further details). Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 the parliamentary borough of Birmingham was split into seven single-member divisions, one of which was Birmingham East.
The division was bounded to the west by Birmingham North, to the north by Aston Manor, to the east by Tamworth and to the south (from west to east) by Birmingham Central, Birmingham South and Birmingham Bordesley.
In the 1918 redistribution of parliamentary seats, the Representation of the People Act 1918 provided for twelve new Birmingham divisions. The East division was abolished.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1885 | William Thomas Gustavus Cook | Liberal | |
| 1886 | Henry Matthews | Conservative | |
| 1895 | Sir John Benjamin Stone | Conservative | |
| 1910 (Jan) | Arthur Steel-Maitland | Conservative | |
| 1918 | Constituency abolished | ||
[edit] Elections
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[edit] In popular culture
Birmingham East was used in BBC sitcom Yes, Minister, and Jim Hacker was its MP.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 3)
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