Birmingham constituencies and wards
Birmingham Metropolitan Borough or Birmingham City Council is the largest local government body of its type in Europe.
In an attempt to devolve responsibility for the management of local services away from the centre, ten local districts were established, one for each of the UK parliamentary constituencies that cover Birmingham. Since 2004 each of the constituencies is managed by a Constituency Committee, made up of all the councillors for the wards in that constituency. At the start of this arrangement, each constituency had four wards, but the number of wards now varies and is more dependent on population and population density.
Most of the wards are neighbourhoods that were established as civil parishes in the mid-19th century, although some of them are suburbs which evolved during the 20th century. Birmingham absorbed a number of sections of the surrounding counties of Worcestershire and Staffordshire during the period 1890-1931. This shows up in the full placenames of some of the modern wards.
The place descriptions "Constituency" and "Wards" only refer to the era since 1974 when a place was part of Birmingham Metropolitan Borough. Similarly, references to County and Municipal boroughs, and Urban and Rural districts, only concern the years 1894-1974 when these types of local government were in place.
There is a page in WeRelate for each of the constiuencies and wards shown on the map.
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