Dudley (UK Parliament constituency)
| Dudley | |
|---|---|
| Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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| 1832–February 1974 | |
| Number of members | One |
| Replaced by |
Dudley East Dudley West |
Dudley was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Dudley in Worcestershire (now in the West Midlands).
It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
The borough of Dudley returned two members to Parliament in 1294, Benedict Andrew and Ralph Clerk de Duddlegh, but not to any subsequent one.
The constituency was created by the Reform Act 1832 for the 1832 general election. It was abolished for the February 1974 general election, when it was replaced by the new Dudley East and Dudley West constituencies, which expanded beyond the town's historic boundaries to include Coseley and part of Sedgley in Dudley East (previously in the old Bilston constituency), as well as Kingswinford, Brierley Hill, and the remainder of Sedgley in Dudley West. All of these areas had been incorporated into the Dudley borough in 1966.
1918-1950: The County Borough of Dudley, and the civil parish of Dudley Castle Hill.
1950-1974: The County Borough of Dudley, and the Municipal Borough of Stourbridge.
General Election 1914/15:
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