Bilston | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1950–February 1974 | |
Seats | one |
Replaced by | Wolverhampton South East |
Wolverhampton Bilston | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1918–1950 | |
Seats | one |
Created from | Wolverhampton South |
Bilston was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Bilston in what is now the southeast of the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
As well as the town of Bilston, which had been heavily industrialised town since the 19th century, it also incorporated the nearby communities of Sedgley and Coseley, both of which were still predominantly rural villages when the parliamentary seat was created in 1918, but by the time the constituency changed from Wolverhampton Bilston to Bilston 32 years later they were rapidly expanding into towns, and had expanded further still when the constituency was finally abolished in 1974.