Rhondda East was a

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which returned one

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(MP) to the

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of the

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from 1918 until 1974. Along with Rhondda West it was formed by dividing the old Rhondda constituency.

History

Rhondda East was for a time a heartland of the

Communist Party of Great Britain The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was the largest communist organisation in Britain and was founded in 1920 through a merger of several smaller Marxist groups. Many miners joined the CPGB in the 1926 general strike. In 1930, the CPG ...

, who formed the main opposition on the council. For a time, Annie Powell was the only Communist

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in Britain.

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, General Secretary of the CPGB, narrowly failed to win the seat in 1945.

Boundaries

1918–1949: The Urban District of Rhondda seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth wards, and part of the sixth. 1950–1974: The Urban District of Rhondda seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh wards, and part of the sixth.

Members of Parliament

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 1940s

Elections in the 1950s

Elections in the 1960s

Elections in the 1970s

References

Sources

* *http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ (Election results from 1951 to the present) *

F. W. S. Craig Frederick Walter Scott Craig (10 December 1929 – 23 March 1989) was a Scottish psephologist and compiler of the standard reference books covering United Kingdom Parliamentary election results. He originally worked in public relations, compilin ...

, ''British Parliamentary Election Results 1918 - 1949'' *

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