MONMOUTH (UK PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCY)

:''For constituencies which may be confused with this constituency, see ''Monmouth constituency
'Monmouth' is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster), first used in the 1918 general election. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post of election.
The Monmouth Welsh Assembly constituency, created in 1999, has normally the same boundaries as the Westminster constituency.

Contents

Boundaries

Current

Historic

1918 to 1983

From 1983

Member of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 1940s

Elections in the 1980s

Elections in the 1990s

Elections in the 2000s

See also

Notes and references

Boundaries

Current

The constituency is one of eight covering the preserved county of Gwent. The other seven are Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Islwyn, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Newport East, Newport West and Torfaen. Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, however, straddles the boundary with the preserved county of Mid Glamorgan.
For the next United Kingdom general election, there will be no changes to the boundaries of the Monmouth constituency stemming from the Fifth Review of the Boundary Commission for Wales.^[1]

Historic

1918 to 1983

As first used in the 1918 general election, the constituency was a creation of the Representation of the People Act 1918 as one of six constituencies covering the county of Monmouth. Prior to the 1918 election the county had been covered, nominally, by the county constituencies of Northern Monmouthshire, Southern Monmouthshire, and Western Monmouthshire, and the Monmouth Boroughs borough constituency. By 1918, however, administrative county boundaries were out of alignment with constituency boundaries. The new constituency boundaries took account of the new local government boundaries.
The other Monmouthshire constituencies defined by 1918 legislation were the county constituencies of Abertillery, Bedwellty, Ebbw Vale and Pontypool, and the borough constituency of Newport. This general pattern was maintained until 1983, nine years after the administrative county they were based on had been abolished, but there were some boundary changes during the 1918 to 1983 period.

In 1918 the Monmouth constituency was defined as consisting of the municipal boroughs of Abergavenny, and Monmouth, the urban districts of Caeleon, Chepstow, and Usk, the rural districts of Abergavenny, Chepstow, Magor, Monmouth, and Pontypool, and part of the rural district of St Mellons,^[2] and the same boundaries were used for the general elections of 1922, 1923, 1924, 1929, 1931, 1935 and 1945.
New boundaries, created by the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949, were used for the 1950 general election, and the Monmouth constituency was defined as consisting of the municipal boroughs of Abergavenny, and Monmouth, the urban districts of Caeleon, Chepstow, and Usk, and rural districts of Abergavenny, Chepstow, Magor and St Mellons, Monmouth, and Pontypool.
For the 1951 general election, there was some alteration to the boundaries of rural district of Magor and St Mellons.
The constituency was redefined again for the 1955 general election, taking account of new local government boundaries. The result was the same list of boroughs and districts as for the 1951 election. 1951 boundaries were used also in the general elections of 1959, 1964, 1966, 1970, February 1974, October 1974 and 1979.
In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, the local government county of Monmouth was abolished. For the 1983 general election, new constituency boundaries were drawn, taking account of new local government boundaries.

From 1983

Member of Parliament

List as per ''Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page'', minus MPs who actually represented Monmouth Boroughs:

★ 1918 — 1934: Sir Leolin Forestier-Walker, Conservative

★ 1934 — 1939: Major J A Herbert, Conservative

★ 1939 — 1945: Leslie Pym, Conservative

★ 1945 — 1966: Peter Thorneycroft, Conservative

★ 1966 — 1970: Donald Anderson, Labour

★ 1970 — 1991: Sir John Stradling Thomas, Conservative

★ 1991 — 1992: Huw Edwards, Labour

★ 1992 — 1997: Roger Kenneth Evans, Conservative

★ 1997 — 2005: Huw Edwards, Labour

★ 2005 — ''present'': David Davies, Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 1940s

Elections in the 1980s

Elections in the 1990s

Elections in the 2000s

See also

★ List of Parliamentary constituencies in Gwent

Notes and references

1. Boundary Commission for Wales website
''The Parliamentary Constituencies and Assembly Electoral Regions (Wales) Order 2006'', OPSI website
2. ''Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972'' (ISBN 0-900178-09-4), F. W. S. Craig 1972
Craig attributes the 1951 alteration to ''SI 1851/1390'' under section 2(3) of the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949


★ The Times House of Commons 1929, 1931, 1935, , , , Politico's (reprint), 2003, ISBN 1-84275-033-X

★ The Times House of Commons 1945, , , , The Times, 1945,

★ British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, , F. W. S., Craig, Parliamentary Research Services, 1983, ISBN 0-900178-06-X