Barry (UK Parliament constituency)

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Barry constituency
Created:	1950
Abolished:	1983
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Barry was a parliamentary constituency in South Wales which 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 for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election. The majority of the electorate (61%) passed to the new Vale of Glamorgan constituency where they formed a majority (76.8%) of this seat. The district of Penarth which formed 23.6% of the constituency joined the majority of the Cardiff SE seat to form the new Cardiff South and Penarth.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Elections 4 Sources

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[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1950	Dorothy Mary Rees	Labour
	1951	Sir Raymond Gower	Conservative
1983		constituency abolished

[edit] Elections

[edit] Sources

• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.