Birmingham Moseley was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1950.
[2] By the 1935 United Kingdom general election, the electorate of the Moseley division exceeded 100,000 voters.
Towards the end of the Second World War it was decided to instruct the Boundary Commission for England to prepare a scheme to divide the seats with more than 100,000 voters.
This was provided for by the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1944, as an interim measure before the first general review of all the constituencies took place later in the decade.
The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;