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Birkenhead East (UK Parliament constituency)

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Birkenhead East was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Birkenhead area of Merseyside. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.

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History

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election and abolished for the 1950 general election.

Boundaries

The County Borough of Birkenhead wards of Argyle, Bebington, Clifton, Egerton, and Mersey, and the part of the borough which lay between the eastern boundary of Argyle, Mersey and Bebington wards and the centre of the bed of the River Mersey.

Election in the 1910s

  • endorsed by Coalition Government
  • Election in the 1930s

  • Conservative candidate Walter Fletcher withdrew 17 days before polling day
  • References

    Birkenhead East (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia


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