Barry (UK Parliament constituency)

Barry
Former constituency
for the House of Commons
1950 (1950)–1983 (1983)
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Cardiff South & Penarth and Vale of Glamorgan
Created from	Llandaff and Barry

Barry was a parliamentary constituency in Wales which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.

The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election. The majority of the electorate (61%) passed to the new Vale of Glamorgan constituency where they formed a majority (76.8%) of this seat. The district of Penarth which formed 23.6% of the constituency joined the majority of the Cardiff SE seat to form the new Cardiff South and Penarth.

Members of Parliament

Event		Member	Party
	1950	Dorothy Rees	Labour
	1951	Sir Raymond Gower	Conservative
	1983	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1979: Barry
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Raymond Gower	30,720	50.91
	Labour	PP Stead	21,928	36.34
	Liberal	WN Berritt	6,105	10.12
	Plaid Cymru	AJ Dixon	1,281	2.12
	National Front	ER Kerton	312	0.52
Majority			8,792	14.57
Turnout			60,349	80.33