Llandaff and Barry (UK Parliament constituency)
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Llandaff and Barry was a
county constituency In the United Kingdom (UK), each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one member to the House of Commons. Within the United Kingdom there are five bodies with members elected by electoral districts called " constitue ...
centred on the towns of
Llandaff Llandaff (; cy, Llandaf ; from 'church' and ''River Taff, Taf'') is a district, Community (Wales), community and coterminous electoral ward in the north of Cardiff, capital of Wales. It was incorporated into the city in 1922. It is the seat of ...
and Barry in Wales. It returned one Member of Parliament to the
House of Commons The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of parliament. T ...
of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster, London. It alone possesses legislative suprema ...
. The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.


Boundaries

The Urban District of Barry, and the Rural District of Llandaff and Dinas Powis.


Members of Parliament


Elections


Elections in the 1910s


Elections in the 1920s


Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1939–40 Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected; *Conservative:
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*Labour: Lynn Ungoed-ThomasReport of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939


Elections in the 1940s


References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Llandaff And Barry (Uk Parliament Constituency) Barry, Vale of Glamorgan Historic parliamentary constituencies in South Wales Llandaff Politics of Glamorgan Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1918 Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1950 Politics of Cardiff