Alyn and Deeside (UK Parliament constituency)

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Alyn and Deeside
County constituency
for the House of Commons
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Boundary of Alyn and Deeside in Wales
Preserved county Clwyd
Population82,505 (2011 census) [1]
Electorate 62,196 (December 2010) [2]
Major settlements Shotton, Connah's Quay, Buckley, Hawarden and Caergwrle
Current constituency
Created 1983
Member of Parliament Mark Tami (Labour)
SeatsOne
Created from Flintshire East
Overlaps
Senedd Alyn and Deeside, North Wales

Alyn and Deeside (Welsh : Alun a Glannau Dyfrdwy) is a parliamentary constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster). The constituency was created in 1983, and it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post method of election.

Contents

The Alyn and Deeside Senedd constituency was created with the same boundaries in 1999.

The constituency is to retain its name and gain wards, as part of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies and under the June 2023 final recommendations of the Boundary Commission for Wales for the next United Kingdom general election. [3]

Constituency profile

This Welsh seat on the English border is part of the industrial hinterland north of Wrexham and west of Chester, with large employers including Toyota, BAE and Airbus. [4] The main population areas in the current seat include Shotton, Connah's Quay, Buckley, Hawarden and Caergwrle. It was formerly known as East Flintshire until the 1983 boundary review, in which it was renamed after the Alyn and Deeside district created in 1974.

Boundaries

Alyn and Deeside (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of current boundaries

1983–1997: The District of Alyn and Deeside, and the Borough of Wrexham Maelor wards 13 and 14.

1997–2010: The District of Alyn and Deeside.

2010–present: The Flintshire County electoral divisions of Aston, Broughton North East, Broughton South, Buckley Bistre East, Buckley Bistre West, Buckley Mountain, Buckley Pentrobin, Caergwrle, Connah's Quay Central, Connah's Quay Golftyn, Connah's Quay South, Connah's Quay Wepre, Ewloe, Hawarden, Higher Kinnerton, Hope, Llanfynydd, Mancot, Penyffordd, Queensferry, Saltney Mold Junction, Saltney Stonebridge, Sealand, Shotton East, Shotton Higher, Shotton West, and Treuddyn.

Future boundaries

From the Next United Kingdom general election the seat of Alyn and Deeside will be expanded as a result of the axing of the Delyn constituency.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [6] Party
1983 Barry Jones Labour
2001 Mark Tami Labour

Elections

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Elections in the 1980s

General election 1983: Alyn and Deeside [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Barry Jones 17,806 40.3 N/A
Conservative Simon Burns 16,43837.2N/A
SDP Eric Owen9,53521.6N/A
Plaid Cymru Keith Shore4130.9N/A
Majority1,3683.1N/A
Turnout 44,19278.1N/A
Registered electors 56,618
Labour win (new seat)
General election 1987: Alyn and Deeside [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Barry Jones 22,916 48.6 +8.3
Conservative Nicholas Twilley16,50035.0−2.2
SDP Eric Owen7,27315.4−6.2
Plaid Cymru John Rogers4781.0+0.1
Majority6,41613.6+10.5
Turnout 47,16780.4+2.3
Registered electors 58,764
Labour hold Swing +5.3

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1992: Alyn and Deeside [9] [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Barry Jones 25,206 52.0 +3.4
Conservative Jeffrey J. Riley17,35535.8+0.8
Liberal Democrats Robert A. Britton4,6879.7−5.7
Plaid Cymru John D. Rogers5511.1+0.1
Green Victor J. Button4330.9N/A
Independent John Cooksey2000.4N/A
Majority7,85116.2+2.6
Turnout 48,43280.1−0.3
Registered electors 60,477
Labour hold Swing +1.3
General election 1997: Alyn and Deeside [11] [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Barry Jones 25,955 61.9 +9.9
Conservative Timothy P. Roberts9,55222.8−13.0
Liberal Democrats Eleanor Burnham 4,0769.7±0.0
Referendum Malcolm J. D. Jones1,6273.9N/A
Plaid Cymru Siw Hills7381.8+0.7
Majority16,40339.1+22.9
Turnout 41,94872.2-7.9
Registered electors 58,091
Labour hold Swing +11.5

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2001: Alyn and Deeside [13] [14] [15]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Mark Tami 18,525 52.3 −9.6
Conservative Mark Isherwood 9,30326.3+3.5
Liberal Democrats Derek Burnham4,58512.9+3.2
Plaid Cymru Richard S. Coombs1,1823.3+1.5
Green Klaus Armstrong-Braun8812.5N/A
UKIP William Crawford4811.4N/A
Independent John Cooksey2530.7N/A
Communist Glyn Davies2110.6N/A
Majority9,22226.0-13.1
Turnout 35,42158.6-13.6
Registered electors 60,478
Labour hold Swing -6.5
General election 2005: Alyn and Deeside [16] [17] [18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Mark Tami 17,331 48.8 −3.5
Conservative Lynne Hale8,95325.2−1.1
Liberal Democrats Paul J. Brighton6,17417.4+4.5
Plaid Cymru Richard Coombs1,3203.7+0.4
UKIP Billy Crawford9182.6+1.2
Forward Wales Klaus Armstrong-Braun3781.1N/A
Independent Judith Kilshaw2150.6N/A
Communist Glyn Davies2070.6±0.0
Majority8,37823.6-2.4
Turnout 35,49660.2+1.6
Registered electors 59,441
Labour hold Swing −1.2

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2010: Alyn and Deeside [19] [20] [21]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Mark Tami 15,804 39.6 −9.2
Conservative Will Gallagher12,88532.3+7.1
Liberal Democrats Paul J. Brighton7,30818.3+0.9
Plaid Cymru Maurice Jones1,5493.9+0.2
BNP John Walker1,3683.4N/A
UKIP James Howson1,0092.5−0.1
Majority2,9197.3-16.3
Turnout 39,92365.5+5.3
Registered electors 60,931
Labour hold Swing −8.1
General election 2015: Alyn and Deeside [22] [23] [24]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Mark Tami 16,540 40.0 +0.4
Conservative Laura Knightly13,19731.9−0.4
UKIP Blair Smillie7,26017.6+15.1
Liberal Democrats Tudor Jones1,7334.2−14.1
Plaid Cymru Jacqueline Hurst1,6083.9±0.0
Green Alasdair Ibbotson9762.4N/A
Rejected ballots50
Majority3,3438.1+0.8
Turnout 41,31466.6+1.1
Registered electors 62,016
Labour hold Swing +0.4

Of the 50 rejected ballots:

In February 2015, the Conservative Party inadvertently leaked a list of non-target seats considered safe Labour, or where winning was considered highly unlikely, [25] which included Alyn and Deeside. [26] Independent Phil Woods announced he would stand, [27] but did not do so.

General election 2017: Alyn and Deeside [28] [29] [30]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Mark Tami 23,315 52.1 +12.1
Conservative Laura Knightly18,08040.4+8.5
Plaid Cymru Jacqui Hurst1,1712.6−1.3
UKIP David Griffiths1,1172.5−15.1
Liberal Democrats Pete Williams1,0772.4−1.8
Rejected ballots84
Majority5,23511.7+3.6
Turnout 44,76071.0+4.4
Registered electors 63,013
Labour hold Swing +1.8

Of the 84 rejected ballots:

General election 2019: Alyn and Deeside [31] [32] [33]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Mark Tami 18,271 42.5 −9.6
Conservative Sanjoy Sen18,05842.0+1.6
Brexit Party Simon Wall2,6786.2N/A
Liberal Democrats Donna Lalek2,5485.9+3.5
Plaid Cymru Susan Hills1,4533.4+0.8
Rejected ballots121
Majority2130.5−11.2
Turnout 43,00868.5−2.5
Registered electors 62,789
Labour hold Swing −5.6

Of the 121 rejected ballots:

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer. As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.

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