Middlesbrough West (UK Parliament constituency)

Middlesbrough West
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
County	North Riding of Yorkshire
1918 (1918)–1974 (1974)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Thornaby
Created from	Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough West was a parliamentary constituency in the town of Middlesbrough in North East England. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election.

Boundaries

When created in 1918, the constituency consisted of the County Borough of Middlesbrough wards of Acklam, Ayrsome, Cannon, Cleveland, Linthorpe, and Newport.

In the 1950 redistribution the Acklam, Ayresome, and Linthorpe wards remained in the seat and the Municipal Borough of Thornaby-on-Tees was added. The other Middlesbrough wards from this seat were transferred to Middlesbrough East.

In 1964 a local redistribution affecting Middlesbrough took effect. Four additional Middlesbrough wards were transferred from Middlesbrough East and added to the existing West constituency; namely Crescent, Gresham, Park, and Whinney Banks.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Trevelyan Thomson	Liberal
	1928 by-election	Frank Kingsley Griffith	Liberal
	1940 by-election	Harcourt Johnstone	Liberal
	1945 by-election	Donald Bennett	Liberal
	1945	Geoffrey Cooper	Labour
	1951	Sir Jocelyn Simon	Conservative
	1962 by-election	Jeremy Bray	Labour
	1970	John Sutcliffe	Conservative
Feb 1974		constituency abolished

Election results

See also

• Middlesbrough West by-election, 1940
• Middlesbrough West by-election, 1945

References

• Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 2)