Walsall North (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1955 onwards / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Walsall North is a constituency[n 1] created in 1955 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Eddie Hughes, a member of the Conservative Party.[n 2]
Walsall North | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | West Midlands |
Electorate | 65,468 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Willenhall, Bloxwich and Walsall (part) |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1955 |
Member of Parliament | Eddie Hughes (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Walsall |
The local electorate returned a Labour MP in the constituency's first seventeen general elections; in the following election Eddie Hughes became its second Conservative MP, following an earlier by-election win by his party in 1976.[2] The constituency consists of green-buffered urban areas across one half of the formerly metalworking- and manufacturing-centred town of Walsall, and the main other settlement within its boundaries, Bloxwich.
The seat is due to be abolished for the next general election.[3]