Kingswinford (UK Parliament constituency)

Kingswinford was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Kingswinford in Staffordshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Not to be confused with Kingswinford and South Staffordshire (UK Parliament constituency).

Kingswinford
Former constituency
for the House of Commons
1885–1950
Seatsone
Created fromWest Staffordshire
Replaced byBrierley Hill and Rowley Regis and Tipton

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election, when the new Brierley Hill constituency took over much of the area, Brierley Hill Urban District having already absorbed much of Kingswinford Rural District more than a decade earlier.

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