Abertillery (UK Parliament constituency)
Abertillery | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons |
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1918–1983 | |
Number of members | one |
Replaced by | Blaenau Gwent and Islwyn |
Created from | West Monmouthshire |
Abertillery was a county constituency centred on the town of Abertillery in Monmouthshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system of election. From 1950 up to (and including) 1970, it was the safest Labour seat in the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election.
Contents
Boundaries
The constituency consisted of the urban districts of Abercarn, Abertillery and Nantyglo and Blaina.[1]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1918 | William Brace | Labour | |
1920 by-election | George Barker | Labour | |
1929 | George Daggar | Labour | |
1950 by-election | Rev Llewellyn Williams | Labour | |
1965 by-election | Albert Clifford Williams | Labour | |
1970 | Jeffrey Thomas | Labour | |
1981 | SDP | ||
1983 | constituency abolished |
Elections
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | William Brace | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Labour win |
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | George Barker | 15,942 | 66.4 | n/a | |
Coalition Liberal | George Hay Morgan | 7,842 | 33.6 | n/a | |
Majority | 7,650 | 32.8 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 70.8 | n/a | |||
Labour hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | George Barker | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Labour win |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | George Barker | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Labour win |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | George Barker | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Labour win |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | George Daggar | 20,175 | 64.5 | n/a | |
Liberal | Walter Reynolds Meredith | 8,425 | 26.9 | n/a | |
Unionist | Peter John Feilding Chapman-Walker | 2,697 | 8.6 | n/a | |
Majority | 11,750 | 37.6 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 82.4 | n/a | |||
Labour hold | Swing | n/a |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | George Daggar | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Labour win |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | George Daggar | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Labour win |
General Election 1939/40: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;
- Labour: George Daggar[10]
- Conservative:
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | George Daggar | 28,615 | 86.6 | n/a | |
National | Dr. J John Hayward | 4,422 | 13.4 | n/a | |
Majority | 743.2 | n/a | |||
Turnout | 81.1 | n/a | |||
Labour hold | Swing | n/a |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | George Daggar | 29,609 | 86.5 | ||
Conservative | OJ Lewis | 4,403 | 13.5 | ||
Majority | 25,206 | 73.0 | |||
Turnout | 71.1 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Llywelyn Williams | 24,204 | 85.90 | ||
Conservative | Peter Wynford Innes Rees | 3,973 | 14.10 | ||
Majority | 20,231 | 71.80 | – | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Albert Clifford Williams | 18,256 | 78.98 | +6.29 | |
Conservative | Peter Wynford Innes Rees | 3,309 | 14.31 | +0.21 | |
Plaid Cymru | Edward Merriman | 1,551 | 6.71 | N/A | |
Majority | 14,947 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
References
- ↑ Schedule 9 of the Representation of the People Act, 1918 (7 & 8 Geo. 5 c.64)
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
- ↑ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- History of Monmouthshire
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- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1918
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