1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Pontypool Constituency – Biography of West

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Pontypool

CANDIDATE : West

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. G. West, aged 45, is the son of a miner and is a solicitor. He took a first prize in law at Cardiff College. He has been a member of the Abercarn (Mon.) Urban District Council, and was elected to the Monmouthshire County Council in 1938. He served during the last war with the R.A.F. and was elected to Parliament for Pontypool at a by-election in 1946.

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