Prior to its uniform adoption of

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in 1999, the United Kingdom used

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for the

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in England,

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and

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. The

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used under that system were smaller than the later regional constituencies and only had one

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each. The constituency of Birmingham East was one of them. It consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of

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Birmingham Erdington Birmingham Erdington is a parliamentary constituency in Birmingham, England, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 2022 by Paulette Hamilton of the Labour Party. Members of Parliament MPs 1918� ...

Birmingham Hall Green Birmingham Hall Green is a parliamentary constituency in the city of Birmingham, which has been represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Tahir Ali of the Labour Party. It has become in recent years a Labour sa ...

Birmingham Hodge Hill Birmingham Hodge Hill is a United Kingdom constituencies, constituency of part of the city of Birmingham represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons since 2004 by Liam Byrne, a member of the Labour Party (UK), Lab ...

, Birmingham Northfield, Birmingham Selly Oak, Birmingham Small Heath, Birmingham Sparkbrook, and

Birmingham Yardley Birmingham Yardley is a constituency of part of the city of Birmingham represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Jess Phillips of the Labour Party. Yardley Rural District was annexed to Birmingham under the 1911 ...

MEPs

Elections

References

External links

David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results
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