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Blaenau Gwent County constituency
Blaenau Gwent shown within Wales
Created:	1983
MP:	Dai Davis
Party:	Independent
Type:	House of Commons
Preserved county:	Gwent
EP constituency:	Wales

Blaenau Gwent is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

The constituency boundaries are analogous to those of Blaenau Gwent county borough.

Blaenau Gwent under its previous name of Ebbw Vale had been held by Aneurin Bevan and Michael Foot, and was considered one of Labour's safest seats in the country. In the 1983 and 1992 general elections, it was Labour's safest seat. The Conservative Party and Liberal Democrats have both been very weak in the seat. Neither has won 10% of the vote since 1987 and the Conservatives have never achieved one eighth of the total votes cast. In 2005 the Liberal Democrats received their lowest share of the vote in the United Kingdom and the Conservatives their second lowest, and both lost their deposits, though this particular election saw unusual circumstances.

The seat hit the headlines at the 2005 UK General Election when the Labour Welsh Assembly Member Peter Law ran as an independent and won the seat. He had resigned from the Labour Party in protest at the imposition of an all-women candidates' shortlist following the retirement of incumbent MP Llew Smith, and overturned a 19,313 (60%) Labour majority with a significant 9,121 (25%) majority. In 2006 the Labour Party decided not to require an all-women shortlist at the next general election. [1]

Peter Law died of a brain tumour on April 25, 2006, precipitating a by-election in the seat on 29 June 2006. Labour failed to regain the seat as Peter Law's former campaign manager, Dai Davies, was elected to replace him.

• Constituency created as Ebbw Vale (1918)
• 1918 — 1920: Thomas Richards, Labour
• 1920 — 1929: Evan Davies, Labour
• 1929 — 1960: Aneurin Bevan, Labour
• 1960 — 1992: Michael Foot, Labour (Constituency renamed in 1983)
• 1992 — 2005: Llew Smith, Labour
• 2005 — 2006: Peter Law, Independent
• 2006 — Present: Dai Davies, Independent

• Election result, 2005 (BBC)
• Election results, 1997 - 2001 (BBC)
• Election results, 1997 - 2001 (Election Demon)
• Election results, 1983 - 1992 (Election Demon)
• Election results, 1992 - 2005 (Guardian)

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Gwent
• Blaenau Gwent Liberal Democrats [2]