Birmingham West (UK Parliament Constituency)
Birmingham West was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP), elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.
It was created upon the abolition of the 3-seat Birmingham constituency in 1885 and abolished in 1950.
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