Members of Parliament
- Edgar Dewdney, Conservative,
- John Andrew Mara, Conservative,
- Martin Burrell, Conservative,
- Grote Stirling, Conservative, 1924–1948
- Owen Lewis Jones, Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, 1948–1952
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