Birmingham All Saints (UK Parliament constituency)

Birmingham All Saints
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1955–1974 (1974)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Birmingham Ladywood
Created from	Birmingham Ladywood and Birmingham Handsworth

Birmingham All Saints was a parliamentary constituency in the city of Birmingham, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Elections were held using the first-past-the-post voting system.

The constituency was created in 1955 and abolished in 1974.

Boundaries

The County Borough of Birmingham wards of All Saints', Rotton Park, and Soho.

Before this seat's creation in 1955 the area (part of the city of Birmingham in the geographic county of Warwickshire) was divided between Birmingham Ladywood (All Saints' and Rotton Park wards) and Birmingham Handsworth (Soho ward).

The seat was located in the west of the central part of the city, within its boundaries in 1955. To the west was Smethwick, to the north Birmingham Handsworth, to the east Birmingham Ladywood and to the south Birmingham Edgbaston.

In the 1974 redistribution of parliamentary seats, the All Saints constituency was abolished. The three wards which had comprised the seat were added to Ladywood ward to form a revised Birmingham Ladywood constituency.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1955	Denis Howell	Labour
	1959	John Hollingworth	Conservative
	1964	Brian Walden	Labour
	Feb 1974	constituency abolished

Election results

Explanatory notes:-

• The votes figure in the 'Turnout' box is the number of registered electors.
• No swing figure is calculated unless the same two parties are in first and second place in both the present and the last election. Swing is the average of the party % vote change between the pair of elections. A positive swing is towards Conservative and a negative swing is towards Labour.

General Election 1955: Birmingham All Saints

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Denis Herbert Howell	18,867	51.8	N/A
	Conservative	F.J. Williams	17,560	48.2	N/A
Majority			1,307	3.6	N/A
Turnout			51,562	70.6	N/A
	Labour gain from new seat		Swing	N/A

General Election 1959: Birmingham All Saints

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Harold Hollingworth	17,235	50.0	+1.8
	Labour	Denis Herbert Howell	17,215	50.0	-1.8
Majority			20	0.0	N/A
Turnout			48,611	70.9	+0.3
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+1.8

General Election 1964: Birmingham All Saints

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Brian Walden	14,975	50.8	+0.8
	Conservative	John Harold Hollingworth	14,505	49.2	-0.8
Majority			470	1.6	N/A
Turnout			44,594	66.1	-4.8
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	-0.8

General Election 1966: Birmingham All Saints

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Brian Walden	16,350	58.5	+7.7
	Conservative	John Harold Hollingworth	11,595	41.5	-7.7
Majority			4,755	17.0	+15.4
Turnout			42,896	65.1	-1.0
	Labour hold		Swing	-7.7

General Election 1970: Birmingham All Saints

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Brian Walden	12,041	54.5	-4.0
	Conservative	John Harold Hollingworth	7,762	35.2	-6.3
	Liberal	D.G. Minnis	2,271	10.3	+10.3
Majority			4,279	19.3	+2.3
Turnout			36,290	60.8	-4.3
	Labour hold		Swing	-5.15

See also

• List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies

References

• Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
• British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1983)
• Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume IV 1945-1979, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1981)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "A" (part 1)