West Monmouthshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Western Monmouthshire
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1918
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Abertillery, Bedwellty and Ebbw Vale
Created from	Monmouthshire

Western 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.

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.

Boundaries

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The constituency (shown in pink) within Monmouthshire

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:

• 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.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Cornelius Marshall Warmington	Liberal
	1895 by-election	Sir William Vernon Harcourt	Liberal
	1904 by-election	Thomas Richards	Liberal-Labour
	1910		Labour
	1918	constituency abolished

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 3)