Pontypool (UK Parliament constituency)

Pontypool
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1918–1983
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Torfaen
Created from	North Monmouthshire

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.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Thomas Griffiths	Labour
	1935	Arthur Jenkins	Labour
	1946 by-election	Daniel Granville West	Labour
	1958 by-election	Leo Abse	Labour
1983		constituency abolished

Election results

General Election 1923: Pontypool

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Griffiths	13,770	50.6	+10.0
	Liberal	Maj. S.J. Robins	13,444	49.4	+21.4
Majority			326	1.2	-8.0
Turnout				81.6
	Labour hold		Swing	-5.7

General Election 1929: Pontypool

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Griffiths	17,805	51.5
	Liberal	Geoffrey Cartland Hugh Crawshay	12,581	36.4	n/a
	Unionist	Gwilym Rowlands	4,188	12.1
Majority			5,224	15.1
Turnout			34,574
	Labour hold		Swing

References

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