West Monmouthshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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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

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
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	1885	Cornelius Marshall Warmington
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1895	Sir William Vernon Harcourt	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1904	Thomas Richards	Liberal
1918		constituency abolished

References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages