Bedwellty (UK Parliament constituency)

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Bedwellty County constituency
Created:	1918
Abolished:	1983
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

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 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 4 References

[edit] 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 constuencies.

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.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Sir Charles Edwards	Labour
	1950	Harold Josiah Finch	Labour
	1970	Neil Gordon Kinnock	Labour
1983		constituency abolished: see Islwyn

[edit] Election results

[edit] References

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

1. ^ Schedule 9 to the Representation of the People Act, 1918 (7 & 8 Geo. 5. C.64)