Created from West Monmouthshire Number of members 1 | Founded 1918 | |
Replaced by West Monmouthshire, Blaenau Gwent, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | ||
Ebbw Vale was a constituency in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1918 general election and returned one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.
Boundaries
The constituency was first contested in 1918 and was used until 1983. It comprised the north-western part of the historic county of Monmouthshire, in south-east Wales.
The seat was a county constituency, formed as a division of Monmouthshire. The areas, which comprised the seat, were Ebbw Vale, Rhymney and Tredegar. The division included three Urban District council areas, one named after each town. The boundaries were left unchanged throughout the existence of the Ebbw Vale constituency.
References
Ebbw Vale (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA