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.

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.

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

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Dudley

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 3)