Bedwellty (UK Parliament constituency)

Bedwellty
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1918 (1918)–1983 (1983)
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Islwyn
Created from	South Monmouthshire and West Monmouthshire

Bedwellty was a county constituency in Monmouthshire which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.

It was then largely replaced by the new Islwyn constituency.

Boundaries

The constituency consisted of the urban districts of Bedwas and Machen, Bedwellty, Mynyddislwyn and Risca and the civil parish of Rogerstone in St Mellons Rural District. These areas had previously been divided between the West Monmouthshire and South Monmouthshire constituencies.

The House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949 removed Rogerstone into the constituency of Monmouth from 1950. Although there were substantial changes in local government boundaries in 1974, those of the constituency were not altered prior to its abolition in 1983.

The constituency was abolished by the Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales) Order 1983, which redistributed Commons seats and aligned boundaries with wards of the districts created by the Local Government Act 1972.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Sir Charles Edwards	Labour
	1950	Harold Finch	Labour
	1970	Neil Kinnock	Labour
1983		constituency abolished: see Islwyn

Election results

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Bedwelly Electorate 47,630, Turnout 77.94%, Voters 37,121
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles Edwards	30,480	82.1
	Conservative	H L Tett	6,641	17.9
Majority			23,839	64.2

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 2)