Birmingham King's Norton (UK Parliament constituency)

Birmingham King's Norton
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1918–1955
Number of members	One

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.

Boundaries

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]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[3]	Party	Notes
	1918	Sir Herbert Austin	Coalition Conservative[4]	later Baron Austin
	1922		Conservative
	1924	Robert Dennison	Labour
	1929	Lionel Beaumont Thomas	Conservative
	1935	John Ronald Hamilton Cartland	Conservative
	1941 by-election	Basil Arthur John Peto	Conservative
	1945	Raymond Blackburn	Labour
	1950	Geoffrey William Lloyd	Conservative	later Baron Geoffrey-Lloyd
	1955	Constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Birmingham Kings Norton^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Sir Herbert Austin	8,809	54.5	n/a
	Co-operative Party	Thomas Hackett	4,917	30.4	n/a
	Liberal	William Norman Birkett	2,435	15.1	n/a
Majority			3,892	24.1	n/a
Turnout			16,161		n/a
	Unionist win

• endorsed by Coalition Government

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Birmingham Kings Norton^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Sir 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
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1923: Birmingham Kings Norton^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Sir Herbert Austin	9,545	43.4	+1.8
	Labour Co-op	Eleanor Barton	6,743	30.7	-2.1
	Liberal	Elizabeth Mary Cadbury	5,686	25.9	+0.3
Majority			2,802	12.7	+3.9
Turnout			21,974	74.1	+0.1
	Unionist hold		Swing	+2.0

General Election 1924: Birmingham Kings Norton^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Robert Dennison	10,497	43.3	+12.6
	Unionist	Sir 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
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing

General Election 1929: Birmingham Kings Norton^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Lionel Beaumont-Thomas	14,464	42.0	-0.8
	Labour	Robert Dennison	13,973	40.6	-2.7
	Liberal	Archibald Pellow Marshall	5,998	17.4	+3.5
Majority			491	1.4	1.9
Turnout				82.8	-2.1
	Unionist gain from Labour		Swing	+1.0

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Birmingham Kings Norton^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Lionel Beaumont-Thomas	22,063	57.5	+15.5
	Labour	Gilbert Richard Mitchison	11,016	28.7	-11.9
	Liberal	Archibald Pellow Marshall	5,294	13.8	-3.6
Majority			11,047	28.8	+27.4
Turnout				81.0	-1.8
	Conservative hold		Swing	+13.7

General Election 1935: Birmingham Kings Norton^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Ronald Hamilton Cartland	24,559	56.8
	Labour	Gilbert Richard Mitchison	18,684	43.2
Majority			5,875	13.6
Turnout				74.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

Birmingham King's Norton by-election, 1941^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Basil Arthur John Peto	21,573	86.9	+30.1
	Independent	A. W. L. Smith	1,696	6.8	N/A
	Pacifist	Stuart Morris	1,552	6.3	N/A
Majority			19,877	80.1	+66.5
Turnout				35.0	-39.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1945: Birmingham Kings Norton^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Raymond Blackburn	32,062	55.2
	Conservative	Basil Arthur John Peto	19,764	34.0
	Liberal	Bertram Samuel White	6,289	10.8
Majority			12,298	21.2
Turnout				74.0
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Birmingham King's Norton ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Geoffrey William Lloyd	27,308	50.61
	Labour	Albert Frederick Bradbeer	21,715	40.24
	Liberal	Michael Edwin Beesley	4,940	9.15
Majority			5,593	10.36
Turnout				84.26
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1951: Birmingham King's Norton ^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Geoffrey William Lloyd	30,456	57.70
	Labour	Denis Herbert Howell	22,325	42.30
Majority			8,131	15.41
Turnout				81.63
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

1. Representation of the People Act 1918, Schedule 9
2. Representation of the People Act 1948, Schedule 1
3. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 2)
4. Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 86. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
5. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
6. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
7. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
8. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
9. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
10. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
11. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
12. F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, p.86
13. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
14. British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973, FWS Craig
15. British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973, FWS Craig