Pontypool was a county constituency in the town of Pontypool in Monmouthshire . It 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 1918 general election, and was replaced with Torfaen for the 1983 general election. This was to correspond with the name and area of the Torfaen local authority created in 1974. The Torfaen constituency contained the whole of the old Pontypool seat, adding just 247 electors from Monmouth.
Boundaries 1918–1950 : The Urban Districts of Abersychan, Blaenavon, Llanfrechfa Upper, Llantarnam, Panteg, and Pontypool.
1950–1983 : The Urban Districts of Blaenavon, Cwmbran, and Pontypool.
Members of Parliament Election results Elections in the 1910s McKenna
General election 1918: Pontypool[1] Party Candidate Votes % Labour Thomas Griffiths 8,438 39.0 C Unionist Leonard Wilkinson Llewelyn [2] 7,021 32.5 Liberal Reginald McKenna 6,160 28.5 Majority 1,417 6.5 Turnout 21,619 72.1 Labour win (new seat) C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.
Elections in the 1920s General election 1922: Pontypool [3] Party Candidate Votes % Labour Thomas Griffiths 11,198 40.6 +1.6 Unionist Thomas George Jones 8,654 31.4 -1.1 Liberal Robert Connell 7,733 28.0 -0.5 Majority 2,544 9.2 +2.7 Turnout 27,585 85.0 +12.9 Labour hold Swing +1.3
General election 1923: Pontypool [3] Party Candidate Votes % Labour Thomas Griffiths 13,770 50.6 +10.0 Liberal Samuel John Robins 13,444 49.4 +21.4 Majority 326 1.2 -8.0 Turnout 27,214 81.6 -3.4 Labour hold Swing -5.7
General election 1924: Pontypool[1] Party Candidate Votes % Labour Thomas Griffiths 15,378 52.6 +2.0 Unionist Lionel Beaumont-Thomas 13,831 47.4 New Majority 1,547 5.2 +4.0 Turnout 29,209 84.5 +2.9 Labour hold Swing N/A
General election 1929: Pontypool [1] Party Candidate Votes % Labour Thomas Griffiths 17,805 51.5 -1.1 Liberal Geoffrey Crawshay 12,581 36.4 New Unionist Gwilym Rowlands 4,188 12.1 -35.3 Majority 5,224 15.1 +9.9 Turnout 34,574 84.6 +0.1 Labour hold Swing N/A
Elections in the 1930s General election 1931: Pontypool[1] [4] Party Candidate Votes % Labour Thomas Griffiths 18,981 56.34 +4.8 Liberal National Thomas Keens 14,709 43.66 +7.3 Majority 4,272 12.68 -2.4 Turnout 33,690 81.99 -2.6 Registered electors 41,090 Labour hold Swing -1.25
Elections in the 1940s 1946 Pontypool by-election Party Candidate Votes % Labour Granville West 23,359 74.09 -3.19 Conservative P. Welch 8,170 25.91 +3.19 Majority 15,189 48.18 -6.38 Turnout 31,529 Labour hold Swing
Elections in the 1950s General election 1950: Pontypool[7] [8] Party Candidate Votes % Labour Granville West 28,267 72.25 -5.03 Conservative Arthur Russell 6,616 16.91 -5.81 Liberal Ernest Aneurin Robert Mathias 4,240 10.84 New Majority 21,651 55.34 +0.78 Turnout 39,123 84.78 +7.61 Labour hold Swing +0.39
General election 1951: Pontypool[9] [10] Party Candidate Votes % Labour Granville West 29,553 75.74 +3.49 Conservative Aylwin O Hewitt 9,464 24.26 +7.35 Majority 20,089 51.48 -3.86 Turnout 39,017 84.29 -0.49 Labour hold Swing -1.93
General election 1955: Pontypool[11] [12] Party Candidate Votes % Labour Granville West 26,372 72.91 -2.83 Conservative Aylwin O Hewitt 9,800 27.09 +2.83 Majority 16,572 45.82 -5.68 Turnout 36,172 77.09 -7.20 Labour hold Swing -2.83
Elections in the 1960s Elections in the 1970s General election February 1974: Pontypool[21] [22] Party Candidate Votes % Labour Leo Abse 25,133 59.68 -11.02 Liberal Ernest Aneurin Robert Mathias 7,668 18.21 New Conservative Wellesley Theodore Octavius Wallace 7,497 17.80 -5.08 Plaid Cymru Roger David Tanner 1,318 3.13 -2.17 Communist Graham Robert Williams 498 1.18 -0.06 Majority 17,465 41.47 -6.35 Turnout 42,114 77.01 +5.07 Labour hold Swing
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