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Birmingham Edgbaston is a constituency, [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Preet Gill, a Labour Co-op MP. [n 2] The most high-profile MP for the constituency was former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (1937–1940). Since 1953 it has elected a succession of female MPs.
Although the number of seats covering the cities of Birmingham and Coventry and the Borough of Solihull remained the same, there were a number of name changes due to revised boundaries: [4] Birmingham Hall Green to Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley; Birmingham Hodge Hill to Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North; Coventry North East to ...
Parliamentary constituencies in Birmingham, West Midlands (historic) (22 P) Pages in category "Parliamentary constituencies in Birmingham, West Midlands" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Birmingham Edgbaston: 71,354 West Midlands Birmingham: Birmingham Erdington: 76,856 West Midlands Birmingham Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley: 75,781 West Midlands Birmingham Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North: 76,922 West Midlands Birmingham / Solihull: Birmingham Ladywood: 76,585 West Midlands Birmingham Birmingham Northfield: 73,483 ...
Birmingham Bordesley, Birmingham Central, Birmingham East, Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham North, Birmingham South and Birmingham West Birmingham was a parliamentary constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the city of Birmingham , in what is now the West Midlands Metropolitan County, but at the time was ...
Edgbaston means "village of a man called Ecgbald", from the Old English personal name + tun "farm". The personal name Ecgbald means "bold sword" (literally "bold edge"). The name was recorded as a village known as Celboldistane in the Hundred of Coleshill in the 1086 Domesday Book [3] until at least 1139, wrongly suggesting that Old English stān "stone, rock" is the final element of the name.
Birmingham Central is a former parliamentary constituency in the city of Birmingham, England. 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 voting system.
Until the 1760s, Birmingham was administered by manorial and parish officials, most of whom served on a part-time and honorary basis. By the 1760s the population growth of Birmingham made this system completely inadequate, and salaried officials were needed. The Birmingham Improvement Act 1769 (9 Geo. 3. c.