Pontypool (UK Parliament constituency)

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Pontypool County constituency
Created:	1918
Abolished:	1983
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Pontypool was a county constituency in the town of Pontypool in South Wales. 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.

1 Boundaries
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 References

[edit] Boundaries

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[edit] 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