Birmingham Acock's Green was a short-lived constituency

United Kingdom constituencies

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 of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

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 from 1945 to 1950. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP)

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 by the first past the post system of election

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Boundaries

Before 1945 the area formed part of the Birmingham Moseley

Birmingham Moseley (UK Parliament constituency)

Birmingham Moseley was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1950. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post system of election.- Boundaries :...

 constituency. That division had over 100,000 electors and was considered to be overlarge. As an interim measure, before the Boundary Commission for England carried out the first periodic review of Parliamentary boundaries, it was authorised by the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1944

House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1944

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 (7 & 8 Geo. 6, c. 41) to divide the largest constituencies.

The new constituency comprised the then Birmingham City Council wards of Acock's Green and Hall Green.

In the first periodic review, which was given effect by the Representation of the People Act 1948

Representation of the People Act 1948

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 (which applied from the United Kingdom general election, 1950), Acock's Green became part of Birmingham Yardley and Hall Green gave its name to the new seat of Birmingham Hall Green.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1945 United Kingdom general election, 1945 The United Kingdom general election of 1945 was a general election held on 5 July 1945, with polls in some constituencies delayed until 12 July and in Nelson and Colne until 19 July, due to local wakes weeks. The results were counted and declared on 26 July, due in part to the time it took to...	Henry Usborne Henry Usborne Henry Charles Usborne was a British Labour politician who defected to the Liberals.Henry Usborne was born in Leamington, Warwickshuire, educated at Bradfield College and read Engineering at Cambridge....	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
	1950 United Kingdom general election, 1950 The 1950 United Kingdom general election was the first general election ever after a full term of a Labour government. Despite polling over one and a half million votes more than the Conservatives, the election, held on 23 February 1950 resulted in Labour receiving a slim majority of just five...	Constituency abolished

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