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Smethwick is a parliamentary constituency, centred on the town of Smethwick in Staffordshire.^[1]

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Parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (county)
Politics of Sandwell

Alfred Dobbs

Alfred James Dobbs (18 June 1882 – 27 July 1945) was a British Labour Party politician and trade unionist.

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Andrew Faulds

Andrew Matthew William Faulds (1 March 1923 – 31 May 2000) was a British actor and Labour Party politician.

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Birmingham Handsworth (UK Parliament constituency)

Birmingham Handsworth was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Handsworth district of Birmingham.

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Blackheath, West Midlands

Blackheath is a town in the Sandwell Metropolitan Borough, in the county of West Midlands, England.

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Brandhall

Brandhall is a suburb of Oldbury in the south of the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, bordering Birmingham and Halesowen.

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Charles Wortham Brook

Charles Wortham Brook CBE (1901–1983) was a London GP and an elected member of the London County Council.

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Christabel Pankhurst

Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst (22 September 1880 – 13 February 1958) was a British suffragette born in Manchester, England.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party.

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Edmund Brocklebank

Sir Clement Edmund Royds Brocklebank (28 August 1882 – 24 August 1949) was a British Conservative Party politician.

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Edwin Bayliss

Edwin Bayliss OBE (1894 – 30 March 1971), was a British politician who was notably Chairman of the London County Council.

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February 1974 United Kingdom general election

The February 1974 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 28 February 1974.

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First-preference plurality (FPP)—often shortened simply to plurality—is a single-winner system of positional voting where voters mark one candidate as their favorite, and the candidate with the largest number of points (a '''''plurality''''' of points) is elected.

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Frontbencher

In many parliaments and other similar assemblies, seating is typically arranged in banks or rows, with each political party or caucus grouped together.

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Gurinder Josan

Gurinder Singh Josan CBE (born August 1972) is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Smethwick for Labour since the 2024 general election.

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Halesowen and Rowley Regis (UK Parliament constituency)

Halesowen and Rowley Regis was a House of Commons constituency in the West Midlands represented in the UK Parliament from 1997 until 2024. Smethwick (UK Parliament constituency) and Halesowen and Rowley Regis (UK Parliament constituency) are politics of Sandwell.

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His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition

His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition, commonly known as the Official Opposition in the United Kingdom, is the main political opposition to His Majesty's Government.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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John Davison (politician)

John Emanuel Davison (28 November 1870 – 2 March 1927) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1918 to 1926.

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John Wells (British politician, born 1925)

Sir John Julius Wells (30 March 1925 – 8 February 2017) was a British Conservative politician.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a social democratic political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum.

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Langley Green, West Midlands

The B4169: Causeway Green Road (in foreground) and New Henry Street, Langley Green Langley Green is an area of Oldbury, on the B4169 road, in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, in the English county of West Midlands.

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List of parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (county)

The ceremonial county of West Midlands, England, is divided into 26 parliamentary constituencies, each of which elect one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons. Smethwick (UK Parliament constituency) and List of parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (county) are parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (county).

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Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)

In the United Kingdom, a member of Parliament (MP) is an individual elected to serve in the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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New Party (UK)

The New Party was a political party briefly active in the United Kingdom in the early 1930s.

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Oswald Mosley

Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 – 3 December 1980), was a British aristocrat and politician who rose to fame during the 1920s and 1930s when, having become disillusioned with mainstream politics, he turned to fascism.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories.

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Parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (region)

The regionSee NUTS 1 statistical regions of England of West Midlands is divided into 59 parliamentary constituencies which is made up of 35 borough constituencies and 24 county constituencies.

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Patrick Gordon Walker

Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker, Baron Gordon-Walker, (7 April 1907 – 2 December 1980) was a British Labour Party politician.

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Peter Griffiths

Peter Harry Steve Griffiths (24 May 1928 – 20 November 2013) was a British Conservative politician best known for gaining the Smethwick seat by defeating the Shadow Foreign Secretary Patrick Gordon Walker in the 1964 general election, against the national trend, by using anti-immigrant and racist rhetoric.

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Roy Wise

Alfred Roy Wise (7 July 1901 – 21 August 1974) was a British Conservative Party politician and was the Member of Parliament for the constituencies of Rugby and Smethwick.

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Smethwick

Smethwick is an industrial town in Sandwell, West Midlands, England.

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Smethwick in the 1964 general election

The constituency of Smethwick in the West Midlands of England gained national media coverage at the 1964 general election, when Peter Griffiths of the Conservative Party gained the seat against the national trend, amidst controversy concerning racism.

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Staffordshire

Staffordshire (postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England.

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To be announced

To be announced (TBA) is a placeholder term used very broadly in event planning to indicate that although something is scheduled or expected to happen, a particular aspect of it remains to be fixed or set.

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United Kingdom constituencies

In the United Kingdom (UK), each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one member to the House of Commons.

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Warley (UK Parliament constituency)

Warley was a constituency in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. Smethwick (UK Parliament constituency) and Warley (UK Parliament constituency) are politics of Sandwell.

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Warley East (UK Parliament constituency)

Warley East was a parliamentary constituency in the borough of Sandwell in the West Midlands of England. Smethwick (UK Parliament constituency) and Warley East (UK Parliament constituency) are politics of Sandwell.

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West Midlands (county)

West Midlands is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the larger West Midlands region of England.

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West Midlands (region)

The West Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of International Territorial Level for statistical purposes.

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1918 United Kingdom general election

The 1918 United Kingdom general election was called immediately after the Armistice with Germany which ended the First World War, and was held on Saturday, 14 December 1918.

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1922 United Kingdom general election

The 1922 United Kingdom general election was held on Wednesday 15 November 1922.

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1923 United Kingdom general election

The 1923 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 6 December 1923.

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1924 United Kingdom general election

The 1924 United Kingdom general election was held on Wednesday 29 October 1924, as a result of the defeat of the Labour minority government, led by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, in the House of Commons on a motion of no confidence.

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1926 Smethwick by-election

The 1926 Smethwick by-election was a by-election held on 21 December 1926 for the British House of Commons constituency of Smethwick in Staffordshire (now in the West Midlands county).

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1929 United Kingdom general election

The 1929 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 30 May 1929, and resulted in a hung parliament.

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1931 United Kingdom general election

The 1931 United Kingdom general election was held on Tuesday, 27 October 1931.

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1935 United Kingdom general election

The 1935 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 14 November.

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1945 Smethwick by-election

The 1945 Smethwick by-election was a by-election held on 1 October 1945 for the British House of Commons constituency of Smethwick in Staffordshire (now in the West Midlands county).

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1945 United Kingdom general election

The 1945 United Kingdom general election was a national election held on Thursday 5 July 1945, but polling in some constituencies was delayed by some days, and the counting of votes was delayed until 26 July to provide time for overseas votes to be brought to Britain.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smethwick_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

Also known as Constituency of Smethwick, Smethwick (constituency), Smethwick constituency.

, 1951 United Kingdom general election, 1955 United Kingdom general election, 1959 United Kingdom general election, 1964 United Kingdom general election, 1966 United Kingdom general election, 1970 United Kingdom general election, 2024 United Kingdom general election.

Smethwick (UK Parliament constituency), the Glossary

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See also

Parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (county)

Politics of Sandwell

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