University of Wales (UK Parliament constituency)

It returned one Member of Parliament (MP), elected under the first-past-the-post voting system.

This university constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act 1918.

The elections in this constituency took place using the first past the post electoral system.

In university seats, in this period, the polls were open for five days and voting did not take place on the polling day for the territorial constituencies.

The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;