The
Birmingham Edgbaston
Birmingham Edgbaston is a constituency, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Preet Gill, a Labour and Co-operative MP.
The most high-profile MP for the constituency was former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain ...
by-election was held on 2 July 1953. It was held when the incumbent
Conservative
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MP,
Peter Bennett was elevated to a
hereditary peerage
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. It was won by the Conservative candidate
Edith Pitt
Dame Edith Maud Pitt, (14 October 1906 – 27 January 1966) was a British Conservative Party MP for the Birmingham Edgbaston seat. She had also sat on Birmingham City Council, and sought several Parliamentary seats before being placed in the C ...
.
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