The original boundaries of the constituency were set in the sixth schedule of the
Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. The seat comprised five
wards of the
municipal borough of Wolverhampton (St. Mark's, St. Paul's, St. John's, St. George's and St. Matthew's) and the neighbouring
Ettingshall area which lay outside the borough boundaries.[2]
1918-1950
Constituencies throughout Great Britain and Ireland were redrawn by the
Representation of the People Act 1918. Wolverhampton's municipal boundaries had been enlarged and it had become a
county borough in the period since 1885. The Wolverhampton West seat was redefined to reflect this, and was described as comprising nine wards of the county borough:
Blakenhall,
Dunstall,
Graiseley,
Merridale, Park, St. George's, St. John's, St. Mark's and St. Matthew's.[3]
Proposed
The re-established constituency will be composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
The City of Wolverhampton wards of: Blakenhall; Graiseley; Merry Hill; Oxley; Park; Penn; St. Peter’s; Tettenhall Regis; Tettenhall Wightwick.[4]
1 Brown was elected in 1929, as a Labour Party candidate, but later sat as an "Independent Labour" MP. He sought re-election in
1931 and 1935 as an Independent Labour candidate, opposed in 1935 by an official
Labour Party candidate, but lost on both occasions
^"so much of the Parish of Bilston, as is known as
Ettingshall New Village, being the portion which lies to the west of a line drawn along the centre of Ward Street, and is bounded on the south by
Sedgley Parish, and on the north and west by the Municipal Borough of Wolverhampton". Sixth Schedule.
Divisions Of Boroughs. Number, Names, Contents, and Boundaries Of Divisions. Redistribution Of Seats Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict.) Chapter 23.
^Representation Of The People Act 1918, Ninth Schedule. Redistribution Of Seats.