Carmarthen (UK Parliament constituency)

UK former constituency infobox
Name = Carmarthen
Type = Borough
Year = 1542
Abolition = 1918UK former constituency infobox
Name = Carmarthen
Type = County
Year = 1918
Abolition = 1997

Carmarthen was the name of a parliamentary constituency in Wales which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom between 1542 and 1997. Until 1832 it was a borough constituency consisting of the town of Carmarthen, and between 1832 and 1918 it was a district of boroughs constituency, consisting of Carmarthen itself and Llanelli, and was sometimes called The Carmarthen Boroughs. In 1918 the borough was abolished but the name was transferred to one of the divisions of the county of Carmarthenshire.

After its abolition in 1997, it was partly replaced by the new Carmarthen East and Dinefwr constituency, and partly by Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

1542-1640

* 1554: William Aubrey [cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/887 |title=Aubrey, William (c.1529–1595) |last=Watkin |first=Thomas Glyn |work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription required) |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=January 2008| accessdate=2008-02-24]
* 1604-1611: Sir Walter Rice
* 1614: William Thomas
* 1621-1629: Henry Vaughan

1640-1997

Notes

Election results

References

*Robert Beatson, "A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament" (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [http://books.google.com/books?vid=024wW9LmFc5kXY0FI2&id=Gh2wKY2rkDUC&printsec=toc&dq=Return+of+Members+of+Parliament&as_brr=1&sig=SK5GVtGLfWQ9ovZDbyZObAyIO5I#PPP9,M1]
*D Brunton & D H Pennington, "Members of the Long Parliament" (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
*"Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803" (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=p-000-00---0modhis06--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=d&cl=CL1]
* "The Constitutional Year Book for 1913" (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
*F W S Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885" (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
* J Holladay Philbin, "Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
*Rayment