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Data Last Updated: 27 August 2024
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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14 December 1918		21,619/30,002	72.06
Thomas Griffiths	Labour Party	8,438	39.03
Sir Leonard Wilkinson Llewelyn	Conservative & Unionist Party - Coalition	7,021	32.48
Rt Hon Reginald McKenna	Liberal Party	6,160	28.49
Majority		1,417	6.55

15 November 1922		27,585/32,439	85.04
Thomas Griffiths	Labour Party	11,198	40.59
Sir Thomas George Jones	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,654	31.37
Sir Robert Lowden Connell	Liberal Party	7,733	28.03
Majority		2,544	9.22

6 December 1923		27,214/33,369	81.55
Thomas Griffiths	Labour Party	13,770	50.60
Samuel John Robins	Liberal Party	13,444	49.40
Majority		326	1.20

29 October 1924		29,209/34,587	84.45
Thomas Griffiths	Labour Party	15,378	52.65
Lionel Beaumont Thomas	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,831	47.35
Majority		1,547	5.30

30 May 1929		34,574/40,888	84.56
Thomas Griffiths	Labour Party	17,805	51.50
Geoffrey Cartland Hugh Crawshay	Liberal Party	12,581	36.39
Gwilym Rowlands	Conservative & Unionist Party	4,188	12.11
Majority		5,224	15.11

27 October 1931		33,690/41,090	81.99
Thomas Griffiths	Labour Party	18,981	56.34
Thomas Keens	National Liberal Party	14,709	43.66
Majority		4,272	12.68

14 November 1935		32,901/41,887	78.55
Arthur Jenkins	Labour Party	22,346	67.92
Leonard Caplan	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,555	32.08
Majority		11,791	35.84

5 July 1945		35,527/46,122	77.03
Arthur Jenkins	Labour Party	27,455	77.28
John Gabriel Weeple	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,072	22.72
Majority		19,383	54.56

25 April 1946 Death of Arthur Jenkins.

23 July 1946
Daniel Granville West	Labour Party	Unopposed

Boundary Change
23 February 1950		39,123/46,151	84.77
Daniel Granville West	Labour Party	28,267	72.25
Arthur Russell	Conservative & Unionist Party	6,616	16.91
Ernest Aneurin Robert Mathias	Liberal Party	4,240	10.84
Majority		21,651	55.34

25 October 1951		39,017/46,290	84.29
Daniel Granville West	Labour Party	29,553	75.74
Aylwin Owen Hewitt	Conservative & Unionist Party	9,464	24.26
Majority		20,089	51.49

26 May 1955		36,172/46,920	77.09
Daniel Granville West	Labour Party	26,372	72.91
Aylwin Owen Hewitt	Conservative & Unionist Party	9,800	27.09
Majority		16,572	45.81

2 August 1958 Elevation of Daniel West to the Peerage - Baron Granville-West.

10 November 1958		29,200/47,332	61.69
Leopold Abse	Labour Party	20,000	68.49
Paul Selwyn Thomas	Conservative & Unionist Party	6,273	21.48
Benjamin Charles Leslie Morgan	Plaid Cymru	2,927	10.02
Majority		13,727	47.01

8 October 1959		38,177/47,452	80.45
Leopold Abse	Labour Party	26,755	70.08
Paul Selwyn Thomas	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,903	23.32
Benjamin Charles Leslie Morgan	Plaid Cymru	2,519	6.60
Majority		17,852	46.76

15 October 1964		37,350/48,024	77.77
Leopold Abse	Labour Party	27,852	74.57
Paul David Mendel	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,169	21.87
William Edward Jones	Communist Party	1,329	3.56
Majority		19,683	52.70

31 March 1966		36,224/48,040	75.40
Leopold Abse	Labour Party	27,909	77.05
Peter Terence James	Conservative & Unionist Party	7,418	20.48
William Edward Jones	Communist Party	897	2.48
Majority		20,491	56.57

18 June 1970		38,759/53,821	72.01
Leopold Abse	Labour Party	27,402	70.70
William Mather Bell	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,869	22.88
Harri Webb	Plaid Cymru	2,053	5.30
Brian Watkinson	Communist Party	435	1.12
Majority		18,533	47.82

28 February 1974		42,114/54,685	77.01
Leopold Abse	Labour Party	25,133	59.68
Ernest Aneurin Robert Mathias	Liberal Party	7,668	18.21
Wellesley Theodore Octavius Wallace	Conservative & Unionist Party	7,497	17.80
Roger David Tanner	Plaid Cymru	1,318	3.13
Graham Robert Williams	Communist Party	498	1.18
Majority		17,465	41.47

10 October 1974		40,034/55,099	72.66
Leopold Abse	Labour Party	25,381	63.40
Robert John Moreland	Conservative & Unionist Party	6,686	16.70
Ernest Aneurin Robert Mathias	Liberal Party	5,744	14.35
Roger David Tanner	Plaid Cymru	2,223	5.55
Majority		18,695	46.70

3 May 1979		44,811/57,187	78.36
Leopold Abse	Labour Party	27,751	61.93
Hon Thomas Geoffrey Sackville	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,383	23.17
Ernest Aneurin Robert Mathias	Liberal Party	5,508	12.29
William James Hyde	Plaid Cymru	1,169	2.61
Majority		17,368	38.76