Walsall was a

borough constituency In the United Kingdom (UK), each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one member to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons. Within the United Kingdom there are five bodies with members elected by ...

centred on the town of

Walsall Walsall (, or ; locally ) is a market town and administrative centre in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands County, England. Historic counties of England, Historically part of Staffordshire, it is located north-west of Birmingham, east ...

in the

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. It returned one

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(MP) to the

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of the

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, elected by the

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voting system.

Boundaries

Throughout its existence, the seat included the entirety of the County Borough of Walsall. In 1955, it was split into

Walsall North Walsall North is a constituency created in 1955 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Eddie Hughes, a member of the Conservative Party. The local electorate returned a Labour MP in the seat's first seventeen ...

and Walsall South

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 1830s

Elections in the 1840s

Finch resigned by accepting the office of

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, causing a by-election.

Elections in the 1850s

Elections in the 1860s

Elections in the 1870s

Elections in the 1880s

Elections in the 1890s

Forster's death caused a by-election. The election was declared void on petition. Charles Thomson Ritchie headshot

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1914–15: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected; *Unionist: Richard Cooper *Liberal: William Henry Brown * Cooper founded the National Party and had the support of the local Unionist Association. However, his candidature was not supported by Unionist party HQ or the Coalition Government.

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1930s

*Conservative candidate, William J Talbot, withdrew.

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1939–40: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election and by the end of the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected; *Liberal National: George Schuster *Labour: A J StanleyReport of the Annual Conference, 1939

Elections in the 1950s

References

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Walsall (Uk Parliament Constituency) Politics of Walsall Parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (county) (historic) Parliamentary constituencies in Staffordshire (historic) Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1832 Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1955