Eric John Sever (born 1 April 1943) is a former Labour Party politician in

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. Sever was elected

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for

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at a by-election in 1977. He served until 1983, when he was deselected as Labour candidate in favour of Sir Albert Bore. However, subsequent parliamentary boundary changes led to Bore being replaced by

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, who had been selected as Labour candidate in the neighbouring constituency of Birmingham Handsworth, which was largely merged with Birmingham Ladywood. Sever instead stood in Meriden, a safe seat for the Conservative Party, but lost by 15,018 votes.

References

*''Times Guide to the House of Commons'', 1983

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* 1943 births Living people Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1974–1979 UK MPs 1979–1983 {{England-Labour-UK-MP-stub