West Monmouthshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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West Monmouthshire County constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1918
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

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

Contents 1 History 2 Boundaries 3 Members of Parliament 4 Election results 5 References

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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:^[1]

• 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.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Cornelius Marshall Warmington
	1895	Sir William Vernon Harcourt	Liberal
	1904	Thomas Richards	Labour
1918		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

[edit] References

1. ^ Seventh Schedule to the Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict c.23)

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