Welsh Female MP's and MEP's, 1885-1997

In chronological order:

Megan Lloyd George (1902-1966) Liberal MP for Anglesey, 1929-1951, and Labour MP for Carmarthen, 1957-66.
Dorothy M. Rees (1898-1987) Labour MP for Barry 1950-1951.
Eirene White

 

Eirene White during the 1950 General Election campaign in Flint (39K)(1909 - 1999) Labour MP for East Flint, 1950-1970. Promoted to the House of Lords as Baroness White.

Beata Brookes

Beata Brookes and Margaret Thatcher (30K)(b. 1931) Member of the European Parliament for the Conservative Party in North Wales, 1979-89.

Ann Clwyd

 

(b. 1937) Labour Party European Member for Mid and West Wales, 1979-1984. Elected to Westminster in the Cynon Valley by-election of 1984 having failed in Denbigh in 1970 and Gloucester in 1974. Member of the opposition Cabinet 1989-1993.
Glenys Kinnock (b. 1944) Elected South East Wales Member of the European Parliament for the Labour Party in 1994.

Eluned Morgan

(b. 1967) Elected Mid and West Wales Member of the European Parliament for the Labour Party in 1994.

Jackie Lawrence (b. 1948) Elected Labour MP for Preseli-Penfro in the 1997 General Election.
Julie Morgan (b. 1944) Contested Cardiff North in 1992 as a Labour Candidate and was elected in 1997. Member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Welsh Affairs 1997

Betty Williams

Betty Williams, the Labour Party Candidate for Conwy in the 1997 General Election (112K)(b. 1944) Contested Caernarfon in 1983, and Conwy in 1987 and 1992 as a Labour candidate. Elected Labour MP for Conwy in 1997.

 

Winning the vote for women in Wales
Female candidates for Parliament in Wales
Welsh Female MPs and MEPs, 1885-1997
Female Members of the National Assembly for Wales
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