Birmingham East (UK Parliament constituency)

Birmingham East
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.

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. It consisted of the wards of Duddeston and Nechells, the local government district of Saltley, and the hamlet of Little Bromwich.

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.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
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

Elections

Elections in the 1910s

December 1910 General Election: Birmingham, East
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay Steel-Maitland 6,639 67.5 -0.6
Lib-Lab John Valentine Stevens 3,190 32.5
Majority 15,244 64.5
Turnout 15,244 64.5
Conservative hold Swing
January 1910 General Election: Birmingham, East
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay Steel-Maitland 8,460 68.1 15.5
Labour Joseph James Stephenson 3,958 31.9 -15.5
Majority 4,502 36.2
Turnout 15,244 81.5
Conservative hold Swing 15.5

Elections in the 1900s

1906 General Election: Birmingham, East
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Sir John Benjamin Stone 5,928 52.6 -11.2
Labour James Holmes 5,343 47.4
Majority 585 5.2
Turnout 14,469 77.9
Conservative hold Swing
1900 General Election: Birmingham, East
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Sir John Benjamin Stone 4,989 63.8
Lib-Lab John Valentine Stevens 2,835 36.2
Majority 2,154 27.6
Turnout 13,070 59.9
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1890s

1895 General Election: Birmingham, East
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Sir John Benjamin Stone unopposed
Conservative hold Swing
1892 General Election: Birmingham, East
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Rt. Hon. Henry Matthews 5,041 61.7
Liberal Henry Charles Fulford 2,832 34.7
Independent Liberal Daniel Shilton Collin 296 3.6
Majority 2,209 27.0
Turnout 10,404 78.5
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1880s

Birmingham East by-election, 1886: 11 August 1886
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Rt. Hon. Henry Matthews unopposed
Conservative hold Swing
1886 General Election: Birmingham, East
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Henry Matthews 3,341 56.7 15.3
Liberal William Thomas Gustavus Cook 2,552 43.3 -15.3
Majority 789 13.4
Turnout 9,382 62.8
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing
1885 General Election: Birmingham, East
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal William Thomas Gustavus Cook 4,277 58.6
Conservative Francis William Lowe 3,025 41.4
Majority 1,252 17.2
Turnout 9,382 77.8
Liberal gain from new seat Swing

In popular culture

Birmingham East was used in BBC sitcom Yes, Minister, and Jim Hacker was its MP.

See also

References

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