Merthyr (UK Parliament constituency)

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Merthyr Borough constituency
Created:	1918
Abolished:	1950
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Merthyr was a borough constituency centred on the town of Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new constituency of Merthyr Tydfil.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 3.1 Elections in the 1930s 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Sir Edgar Rees Jones	Coalition Liberal
	1922	Richard Collingham Wallhead	Labour
	1931		ILP
	1933		Labour
	1934	Stephen Owen Davies	Labour
1950		constituency abolished: see Merthyr Tydfil

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 1930s

Merthyr by-election, 1934
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Stephen Owen Davies	18,645	51.8
	Liberal	J. V. Evans	10,376	28.9	N/A
	Ind. Labour Party	Rev Campbell Stephen	3,508	9.8
	Communist	Wal Hannington	3,409	9.5
Majority			8,269	22.9
Turnout				81.1	+0.3
	Labour gain from Ind. Labour Party		Swing

[edit] See also

• Merthyr by-election, 1934

[edit] References

• Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.