Birmingham North (UK Parliament Constituency)
Birmingham North was a parliamentary constituency in the city of Birmingham, 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 in upon the abolition of the Birmingham constituency in 1885, and was itself abolished for the 1918 general election.
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