Rhondda West Borough constituency
Created:	1918
Abolished:	1974
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Rhondda West was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Rhondda district of South Wales. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, MP elected by the first past the post system.

History

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election.

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	William Abraham	Labour
	1920	William John	Labour
	1950	Iorwerth Rhys Thomas	Labour
	1967	Trevor Alec Jones	Labour
1974		constituency abolished: see Rhondda

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918, Rhondda

William John returned unopposed

Elections in the 1920s

Rhondda West by-election, 1920
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William John	14,035	58.5	N/A
	Coalition Conservative	G. Rowlands	9,959	41.5	N/A
Majority			4,076	17.0	N/A
Turnout			23,949	70.2
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 1940s

Elections in the 1950s

Elections in the 1960s

Rhondda West by-election, 1967
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Trevor Alec Jones	12,373	49.0	−27.0
	Plaid Cymru	Henry V. Davies	10,067	39.9	+31.2
	Communist	Arthur True	1,723	6.8	−0.6
	Conservative	Gareth Neale	1,075	4.3	−3.6
Majority			2,306	9.1	−58.3
Turnout			25,238
	Labour hold		Swing	−29.1

Elections in the 1970s

Rhondda West: 1970 general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Trevor Alec Jones	18,779	74.8
	Plaid Cymru	Henry V. Davies	3,528	14.1
	Conservative	J. D. Morgan	1,610	6.4
	Communist	Arthur True	1,201	4.8
Majority			15,251	60.7
Turnout				81.4
	Labour hold		Swing	−29.1

See also

• Rhondda West by-election, 1920
• Rhondda West by-election, 1967

References

• Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

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