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List of MPs for constituencies in Wales (1959–1964)

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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

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! colspan="2" |Affiliation

!Members

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|Welsh Labour Party

| style="text-align:right;" |28

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Welsh Conservative Party}}" |

|Welsh Conservative Party

| style="text-align:right;" |6

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |

|Welsh Liberal Party

| style="text-align:right;" |2

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| colspan="2" | Total

| style="text-align:right;" |36

MPs

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! colspan="2" |MP

!Constituency

!Party

!In constituency since

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|Leo Abse

|Pontypool

|Labour Party

|1958 by-election

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|Aneurin Bevan

|Ebbw Vale

|Labour Party

|1929

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Conservative Party}}" |

|Nigel Birch

|West Flintshire

|Conservative Party

|1950

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |

|Roderic Bowen

|Cardiganshire

|Liberal Party

|1945

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Conservative Party}}" |

|Donald Box

|Cardiff North

|Conservative Party

|1959

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|James Callaghan

|Cardiff South East

|Labour Party

|1945

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |

|Clement Davies

|Montgomeryshire

|Liberal Party

|1929

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|Elfed Davies

|Rhondda East

|Labour Party

|1959

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|Ifor Davies

|Gower

|Labour Party

|1959

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|S. O. Davies

|Merthyr Tydfil

|Labour Party

|1934 by-election

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|Desmond Donnelly

|Pembrokeshire

|Labour Party

|1950

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|Ness Edwards

|Caerphilly

|Labour Party

|1939 by-election

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|Harold Finch

|Bedwellty

|Labour Party

|1950

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Conservative Party}}" |

|Raymond Gower

|Barry

|Conservative Party

|1951

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|Jim Griffiths

|Llanelli

|Labour Party

|1936 by-election

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|Cledwyn Hughes

|Anglesey

|Labour Party

|1951

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|Idwal Jones

|Wrexham

|Labour Party

|1955

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|Thomas Jones

|Merioneth

|Labour Party

|1951

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|Megan Lloyd George{{Cite news |date=2016-07-14 |title=Plaid Cymru's first MP 'helped change course of a nation' |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-36772269 |access-date=2024-06-08 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}

|Carmarthen

|Labour Party

|1957 by-election

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Conservative Party}}" |

|Geraint Morgan

|Denbigh

|Conservative Party

|1959

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|John Morris

|Aberavon

|Labour Party

|1959

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|David Mort

|Swansea East

|Labour Party

|1940 by-election

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|Walter Padley

|Ogmore

|Labour Party

|1950

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|Arthur Pearson

|Pontypridd

|Labour Party

|1938 by-election

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|Arthur Probert

|Aberdare

|Labour Party

|1954 by-election

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Conservative Party}}" |

|Hugh Rees

|Swansea West

|Conservative Party

|1959

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|Goronwy Roberts

|Caernarfon

|Labour Party

|1950

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|Frank Soskice

|Newport

|Labour Party

|1956 by-election

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|George Thomas

|Cardiff West

|Labour Party

|1945

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|Iorwerth Thomas

|Rhondda West

|Labour Party

|1950

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|Peter Thomas

|Conwy

|Labour Party

|1951

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Conservative Party}}" |

|Peter Thorneycroft

|Monmouth

|Conservative Party

|1945 by-election

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|Tudor Watkins

|Brecon and Radnor

|Labour Party

|1945

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|D. J. Williams

|Neath

|Labour Party

|1945 by-election

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|Llywelyn Williams

|Abertillery

|Labour Party

|1950 by-election

style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Welsh Labour}}" |

|Eirene White

|East Flintshire

|Labour Party

|1950

By-elections

There were three by-elections during this period:

See also

References

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1959–1964

MPs

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