Carmarthenshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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Carmarthenshire
County constituency
Created: 1542
Abolished: 1885
Type: House of Commons
Members: one until 1832, then two

Carmarthenshire was a parliamentary constituency in Wales which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until its representation was increased to two members for the 1832 general election.

At the 1885 general election, it was divided into two new single-member seats: Carmarthenshire East and Carmarthenshire West, both of which were in turn abolished for the 1918 general election.

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[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] MPs 1660-1832

Year Member

[edit] MPs 1832-1885

Election First member 1st Party 2nd member 2nd Party
1832 representation increased to two members under the Reform Act 1832
1832 George Rice Rice-Trevor Tory Edward Hamlyn Adams
1835 Sir James Hamlyn Williams
1837 John Jones
1842 David Arthur Saunders Davies
1852 David Jones (to 1868)
1857 David Pugh
1868 Edward John Sartoris
1874 John Jones Frederick Archibald Vaughan, Viscount Emlyn (to 1885)
1880 Walter Rice Howell Powell

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