Parliamentary Constituency was located in the
West Midlands of
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 system.
The constituency was created for the
1950 General Election . It was abolished for the
February 1974 General Election .
The seat was named after a town in the historic county of
Staffordshire in the West Midlands of England.
It consisted of four local government areas, the
Urban District s of
Amblecote ,
Brierley Hill , and
Tettenhall as well as the
Rural District of
Seisdon , as they existed in 1950.
Before 1950 much of the area (Amblecote and Brierley Hill) had been part of the
Kingswinford constituency. The rest (Tettenhall and Seisdon) were part of
Cannock constituency.
In the redistribution which took effect in early 1974, this constituency was abolished. There had been changes in local government arrangements since 1950, so most of the area of the old seat had been divided between the
County Borough s of
Dudley and
Wolverhampton . The Brierley Hill ward of Dudley became part of the
Dudley West constituency, whereas the
Tettenhall Regis and
Tettenhall Wightwick wards of Wolverhampton were part of the
Wolverhampton South West seat. Seisdon became part of the
South West Staffordshire division. Most of Amblecote had been included in the
Worcestershire Municipal Borough of
Stourbridge , so it became part of the
Halesowen And Stourbridge parliamentary constituency.
- ''Constituency created'' ( 1950 )
- ''Constituency abolished'' ( 1974 )
- ''Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972'', compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
- ''British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973'', compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1983)
- ''Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume IV 1945-1979'', edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1981)
