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 system.
Throughout its history this constituency provided a reasonably safe seat for Labour backbencher, Maurice Edelman.
The County Borough of Coventry wards of Bablake, Foleshill, Holbrook, Radford, and Sherbourne.
The constituency was one of three divisions of Coventry, a parliamentary borough in the historic county of Warwickshire in the West Midlands region of England.
Foleshill ward became part of Coventry North East, while the remaining four wards from this seat formed the whole of Coventry North West.