| Bilston | |
| Type: | Borough |
| Parliament: | uk |
| Year: | 1950 |
| Abolished: | February 1974 |
| Elects Howmany: | one |
| Next: | Wolverhampton South East |
| Wolverhampton Bilston | |
| Type: | Borough |
| Parliament: | uk |
| Year: | 1918 |
| Abolished: | 1950 |
| Elects Howmany: | one |
| Previous: | 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.
The area was created, as a Staffordshire borough constituency, for the 1918 general election. It was named as a division of Wolverhampton. From the 1950 general election the Wolverhampton prefix was dropped from the official constituency name. The seat was abolished for the February 1974 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Wolverhampton South East constituency.
1918–1950: The constituency consisted of the then Urban Districts of Bilston, Coseley and Sedgley.
1950–1974: By 1950 Bilston was a Municipal Borough. Coseley and Sedgley were still Urban Districts in the constituency. In 1966 most of Sedgley was incorporated into an expanded borough of Dudley, which also took in the south of Coseley, while the remainder of Sedgley was transferred to Wolverhampton and Seisdon and sections of Coseley were transferred to Wolverhampton and West Bromwich.
| Year | Member | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | T. E. Hickman | Coalition Conservative | ||
| 1922 | Charles Howard-Bury | Conservative | ||
| 1924 | John Baker | Labour | ||
| 1931 | Geoffrey Peto | Conservative | ||
| 1935 | Ian Hannah | Conservative | ||
| 1944 by-election | William Gibbons | Conservative | ||
| 1945 | Will Nally | Labour | ||
| 1955 | Bob Edwards | Labour Co-op | ||
| Feb 1974 | constituency abolished: see Wolverhampton South East | |||