page_title: Birmingham East (UK Parliament constituency)
section_title: Elections in the 1880s
hierarchical_section_title: Birmingham East (UK Parliament constituency) / Elections / Elections in the 1880s
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph c.1890
context_page_description: Birmingham East was a parliamentary constituency in the city of Birmingham, England. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.
  The constituency was created upon the abolition of the Birmingham constituency in 1885, and was itself abolished for the 1918 general election.
context_section_description: Matthews was appointed Home Secretary, requiring a by-election.
caption: Matthews
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