University of Wales was a university constituency

University constituency

A university constituency is a constituency, used in elections to a legislature, that represents a university rather than a geographical area. University constituencies may involve plural voting, in which eligible voters are permitted to vote in both a university constituency and a geographical...

 electing one member to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Parliament of the United Kingdom

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, from 1918 to 1950. It returned one Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MP), elected under the first-past-the-post

First-past-the-post

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 voting system.

Boundaries

This university constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act 1918

Representation of the People Act 1918

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. It was abolished in 1950 by the Representation of the People Act 1948

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.

The constituency was not a physical area. Its electorate consisted of the graduates of the University of Wales

University of Wales

The University of Wales was a confederal university founded in 1893. It had accredited institutions throughout Wales, and formerly accredited courses in Britain and abroad, with over 100,000 students, but in October 2011, after a number of scandals, it withdrew all accreditation, and it was...

The constituency returned one Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Notes
	1918 United Kingdom general election, 1918 The United Kingdom general election of 1918 was the first to be held after the Representation of the People Act 1918, which meant it was the first United Kingdom general election in which nearly all adult men and some women could vote. Polling was held on 14 December 1918, although the count did...	Rt Hon. John Herbert Lewis	Coalition Liberal
	1922 United Kingdom general election, 1922 The United Kingdom general election of 1922 was held on 15 November 1922. It was the first election held after most of the Irish counties left the United Kingdom to form the Irish Free State, and was won by Andrew Bonar Law's Conservatives, who gained an overall majority over Labour, led by John...	Thomas Arthur Lewis Thomas Arthur Lewis Thomas Arthur Lewis was a Welsh school teacher, barrister and Liberal Party politician.-Family and education:...	National Liberal National Liberal Party (UK, 1922) The National Liberal Party was a liberal political party in the United Kingdom from 1922 to 1923. It was led by David Lloyd George and was, at the time, separate to the original Liberal Party.-History:...	died 18 July 1923
	1923 United Kingdom general election, 1923 -Seats summary:-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987*-External links:***...	George Maitland Lloyd Davies George Maitland Lloyd Davies George Maitland Lloyd Davies was a Welsh pacifist and Member of Parliament for the University of Wales.Davies, who had originally volunteered as an officer in the Territorial Army, but was imprisoned during World War I as a conscientious objector, was the grandson of a noted Welsh preacher, John...	Christian Pacifist	Joined the Labour Party Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...  in February 1924
	1924 United Kingdom general election, 1924 - Seats summary :- References :* F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987* - External links :* * *...	Ernest Evans Ernest Evans (politician) Ernest Evans was a Liberal Party politician from Wales.-Family and education:Ernest Evans was born at Aberystwyth, the son of Evan Evans, the Clerk to the Cardiganshire County Council and his wife Annie Davies...	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...	appointed County Court County Court A county court is a court based in or with a jurisdiction covering one or more counties, which are administrative divisions within a country, not to be confused with the medieval system of county courts held by the High Sheriff of each county.-England and Wales:County Court matters can be lodged...  Judge in 1943
	1943 by-election University of Wales by-election, 1943 The University of Wales by-election, 1943 was a parliamentary by-election held in the United Kingdom between 25 and 29 January 1943 for the House of Commons constituency of University of Wales.- Previous MP :...	William John Gruffydd William John Gruffydd Professor William John Gruffydd was a Welsh academic, poet, writer, and politician.-Family and Education:...	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
	1950 United Kingdom general election, 1950 The 1950 United Kingdom general election was the first general election ever after a full term of a Labour government. Despite polling over one and a half million votes more than the Conservatives, the election, held on 23 February 1950 resulted in Labour receiving a slim majority of just five...	University constituencies abolished

Elections

The elections in this constituency took place using the first past the post electoral system. In university seats, in this period, the polls were open for five days and voting did not take place on the polling day for the territorial constituencies.

Elections of the 1910s

Elections of the 1920s

• After the fall of the coalition government in 1922, the former Coalition Liberals contested elections as the National Liberal Party.

• Seat vacant at the dissolution of Parliament, following the death of Lewis on 18 July 1923

Elections of the 1930s

Elections of the 1940s

• Evans appointed a County Court Judge, 1942

• Seat abolished, 1950

Sources

• British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan 1977)
• Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Vol. III 1918-1945, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (The Harvester Press 1979)