This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Welsh constituencies for the Forty-Second Parliament of the United Kingdom (1959–1964).
Most MPs elected for Welsh constituencies at the 1959 United Kingdom general election, held on 8 October 1959, served a full term, but there were three by-elections.
The list is sorted by the name of the MP.
Composition AffiliationMembersLabour Party27Conservative Party6Welsh Liberal Party2National Liberal Party1 Total36
MPs MPConstituencyPartyIn constituency sinceLeo AbsePontypoolLabour Party1958 by-electionAneurin BevanEbbw ValeLabour Party1929Nigel BirchWest FlintshireConservative Party1950Roderic BowenCardiganshireLiberal Party1945Donald BoxCardiff NorthConservative Party1959James CallaghanCardiff South EastLabour Party1945Clement DaviesMontgomeryshireLiberal Party1929Elfed DaviesRhondda EastLabour Party1959Ifor DaviesGowerLabour Party1959S. O. DaviesMerthyr TydfilLabour Party1934 by-electionDesmond DonnellyPembrokeshireLabour Party1950Ness EdwardsCaerphillyLabour Party1939 by-electionHarold FinchBedwelltyLabour Party1950Raymond GowerBarryConservative Party1951Jim GriffithsLlanelliLabour Party1936 by-electionCledwyn HughesAngleseyLabour Party1951Idwal JonesWrexhamLabour Party1955Thomas JonesMerionethLabour Party1951Megan Lloyd GeorgeCarmarthenLabour Party1957 by-electionGeraint MorganDenbighNational Liberal Party1959John MorrisAberavonLabour Party1959David MortSwansea EastLabour Party1940 by-electionWalter PadleyOgmoreLabour Party1950Arthur PearsonPontypriddLabour Party1938 by-electionArthur ProbertAberdareLabour Party1954 by-electionHugh ReesSwansea WestConservative Party1959Goronwy RobertsCaernarfonLabour Party1950Frank SoskiceNewportLabour Party1956 by-electionGeorge ThomasCardiff WestLabour Party1945Iorwerth ThomasRhondda WestLabour Party1950Peter ThomasConwyConservative Party1951Peter ThorneycroftMonmouthConservative Party1945 by-electionTudor WatkinsBrecon and RadnorLabour Party1945D. J. WilliamsNeathLabour Party1945 by-electionLlywelyn WilliamsAbertilleryLabour Party1950 by-electionEirene WhiteEast FlintshireLabour Party1950
By-elections There were three by-elections during this period:
1960 Ebbw Vale was won by Labour MP Michael Foot 1962 Montgomeryshire was won by Liberal MP Emlyn Hooson 1963 Swansea East was won by Labour MP Neil McBride
See also
1959 United Kingdom general election
References