Bedwellty (UK Parliament constituency)
Bedwellty | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons |
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1918–1983 | |
Number of members | one |
Replaced by | Islwyn |
Created from | South Monmouthshire and West Monmouthshire |
Bedwellty was a county constituency in Monmouthshire which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.
It was then largely replaced by the new Islwyn constituency.
Contents
Boundaries
The constituency consisted of the urban districts of Bedwas and Machen, Bedwellty, Mynyddislwyn and Risca and the civil parish of Rogerstone in St Mellons Rural District.[1] These areas had previously been divided between the West Monmouthshire and South Monmouthshire constituencies.
The House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949 removed Rogerstone into the constituency of Monmouth from 1950. Although there were substantial changes in local government boundaries in 1974, those of the constituency were not altered prior to its abolition in 1983.
The constituency was abolished by the Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales) Order 1983, which redistributed Commons seats and aligned boundaries with wards of the districts created by the Local Government Act 1972.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1918 | Sir Charles Edwards | Labour | |
1950 | Harold Finch | Labour | |
1970 | Neil Kinnock | Labour | |
1983 | constituency abolished: see Islwyn |
Election results
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Neil Kinnock | 28,794 | 71.35 | ||
Conservative | Robert John Walter | 8,358 | 20.71 | ||
Plaid Cymru | T Richards | 2,648 | 6.56 | ||
Ecology | PM Rout | 556 | 1.38 | ||
Majority | 20,436 | 50.64 | |||
Turnout | 79.59 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Neil Kinnock | 27,418 | 70.88 | ||
Conservative | Peter Leonard Brooke | 4,556 | 11.78 | ||
Liberal | RG Morgan | 3,621 | 9.36 | ||
Plaid Cymru | D Mogford | 3,086 | 7.98 | ||
Majority | 22,862 | 59.10 | |||
Turnout | 77.08 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Neil Kinnock | 26,664 | 67.06 | ||
Conservative | Tim Yeo | 5,027 | 12.64 | ||
Liberal | R Morgan | 5,020 | 12.63 | ||
Plaid Cymru | A Moore | 3,048 | 7.67 | ||
Majority | 21,637 | 54.42 | |||
Turnout | 79.90 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Neil Kinnock | 28,078 | 74.56 | ||
Conservative | Paul Marland | 5,799 | 15.40 | ||
Plaid Cymru | CM Davey | 3,780 | 10.04 | ||
Majority | 22,279 | 59.16 | |||
Turnout | 76.61 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Election in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Charles Edwards | 30,480 | 82.1 | ||
Conservative | H L Tett | 6,641 | 17.9 | ||
Majority | 23,839 | 64.2 | |||
Turnout | 77.94 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Charles Edwards | Unopposed | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Charles Edwards | Unopposed | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Charles Edwards | 26,021 | 79.0 | ||
Unionist | Hubert Geoffrey Griffith | 6,936 | 21.0 | ||
Majority | 19,085 | 58.0 | |||
Turnout | 32,957 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Charles Edwards | ||||
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Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Charles Edwards | 17,564 | 67.6 | +4.6 | |
Liberal | William Henry Williams | 8,436 | 32.4 | n/a | |
Majority | 9,128 | 35.2 | +9.2 | ||
Turnout | 74.2 | -7.0 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Charles Edwards | ||||
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Majority | |||||
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Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Charles Edwards | 11,730 | |||
Liberal |
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10,170 | |||
Majority | |||||
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Labour win |
- denotes candidate who was endorsed by the Coalition Government
References
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 2)[self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ Schedule 9 to the Representation of the People Act, 1918 (7 & 8 Geo. 5. C.64)
- ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ↑ Etholiadau'r ganrif 1885-1997, Beti Jones
- ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
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- History of Monmouthshire
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- Politics of Monmouthshire