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Pontypool (UK Parliament constituency)

UK Parliament constituency (1918–1983)

Summary

UK Parliament constituency (1918–1983)

Field	Value
name	Pontypool
type	County
parliament	uk
year	1918
abolished	1983
elects_howmany	one
previous	North Monmouthshire and South Monmouthshire
next	Torfaen

|}} Pontypool was a county constituency in the town of Pontypool in Monmouthshire. 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 voting system.

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and was replaced with Torfaen for the 1983 general election. This was to correspond with the name and area of the Torfaen local authority created in 1974. The Torfaen constituency contained the whole of the old Pontypool seat, adding just 247 electors from Monmouth.

Boundaries

1918–1950: The Urban Districts of Abersychan, Blaenavon, Llanfrechfa Upper, Llantarnam, Panteg, and Pontypool.

1950–1983: The Urban Districts of Blaenavon, Cwmbran, and Pontypool.

Members of Parliament

Election	Member	Party
Labour Party (UK)}}"		1918	Thomas Griffiths
Labour Party (UK)}}"		1935	Arthur Jenkins
Labour Party (UK)}}"		1946 by-election	Granville West
Labour Party (UK)}}"		1958 by-election	Leo Abse
1983	constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1930s

|reg. electors = 41,090

Elections in the 1940s

Elections in the 1950s

Elections in the 1960s

|reg. electors = 48,024 |reg. electors = 48,040

Elections in the 1970s

References

‘LLEWELYN, Sir Leonard Wilkinson’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U199404, accessed 18 Sept 2017]
Etholiadau'r ganrif 1885-1997, Beti Jones
British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
"UK General Election results 1931".
"1958 By Election Results".
"UK General Election results 1964".
"UK General Election results 1970".
"'Pontypool', Feb 1974 - May 1983". Cognitive Computing Limited.
"UK General Election results February 1974".
"UK General Election results October 1974".
"UK General Election results 1979".

Wikipedia Source

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