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Western Monmouthshire (also known as the Western Division of the County of Monmouth) was a parliamentary constituency in Monmouthshire, Wales. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

History

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election. It was abolished for the 1918 general election.

Boundaries

The constituency was defined as comprising the "Sessional Division of Bedwellty (except the Parishes of Bedwas and Mynyddislwyn)", and thus constituted the following civil parishes:

• Abertillery
• Aberystruth (including part of Ebbw Vale)
• Bedwellty (including Manmoel, Rhymney, Tredegar and part of Ebbw Vale)

On abolition by the Representation of the People Act 1918, West Monmouthshire's area was divided between three constituencies: Abertillery, Bedwellty and Ebbw Vale.

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

Elections in the 1890s

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1914–15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

• Labour: Thomas Richards
• Unionist:

References

1. Seventh Schedule to the Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict c.23)
2. ^ National Liberal Federation; Liberal Central Association (1908). "Monmouthshire, West". The Liberal Year Book for 1908. London. pp. 310–311. Retrieved 27 March 2018.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
3. ^ Craig, FWS, ed. (1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 9781349022984.
4. "The General Election". The Morning Post. 28 November 1885. p. 2. Retrieved 4 December 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
5. Rees, Ivor Thomas (2004). Hopkins, Tony (ed.). "Whatever happened to young William? The short political career of W. H. Meredyth". Gwent Local History (97): 63. hdl:10107/1340775.
6. ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
7. ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 3)

• History of Monmouthshire
• Historic parliamentary constituencies in South Wales
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1885
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1918
• Politics of Monmouthshire