Bridgend | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Preserved county | Mid Glamorgan |
Population | 79,873 (2011 census) [1] |
Electorate | 59,533 (December 2010) [2] |
Major settlements | Bridgend Porthcawl |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Jamie Wallis (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Aberavon and Ogmore |
Overlaps | |
Senedd | Bridgend, South Wales West |
Bridgend (Welsh : Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr) is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Jamie Wallis, a Conservative. [n 2]
The constituency is to retain its name but its boundaries altered, 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 2024 United Kingdom general election. [3]
The seat covers Bridgend itself and some of the south Wales coast to the west including the seaside resort of Porthcawl. Levels of wealth and education are around average for the UK. [4]
1983–1997: The Borough of Ogwr wards numbers 1, 2, 12 to 16, 18, and 20 to 23.
1997–2010: The Borough of Ogwr wards of Brackla, Cefn Cribwr, Coity Higher, Cornelly, Coychurch Lower, Laleston, Morfa, Newcastle, Newcastle Higher, Oldcastle, Porthcawl East, Porthcawl West, Pyle, and St Bride's Major.
2010–present: The Bridgend County Borough electoral divisions of Brackla; Bryntirion, Laleston and Merthyr Mawr; Cefn Glas; Coity; Cornelly; Coychurch Lower; Litchard; Llangewydd and Brynhyfryd; Morfa; Newcastle; Newton; Nottage; Oldcastle; Pendre; Pen-y-fai; Porthcawl East Central; Porthcawl West Central; Pyle; and Rest Bay.
The 2015 result gave the seat the 19th-smallest majority of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority. [5] The Bridgend constituency was created in 1983 from parts of the seats of Ogmore and Aberavon. To date, it has mostly voted for candidates from the Labour Party at general elections. The exceptions have been the Conservatives winning the seat at the 1983 "landslide" election, and in 2019. An absolute Labour majority occurred in Bridgend in three successive elections: 1992, 1997, and 2001, as well as in 2017.
Since 2001, inclusive, two non-Labour, non-Conservative candidates at each election have kept their deposits, winning greater than or equal to 5% of the vote.
Turnout has ranged between a high of 80.5%, in 1992, and a low of 59.2% in 2005.
Election | Member [6] [7] | Party | |
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1983 | Peter Hubbard-Miles | Conservative | |
1987 | Win Griffiths | Labour | |
2005 | Madeleine Moon | Labour | |
2019 | Jamie Wallis | Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Peter Hubbard-Miles | 15,950 | 38.4 | N/A | |
Labour | John A. Fellows | 14,623 | 35.2 | N/A | |
SDP | Russell Smart | 9,630 | 23.2 | N/A | |
Plaid Cymru | Keith Bush | 1,312 | 3.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,327 | 3.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 41,515 | 77.0 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 53,918 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Win Griffiths | 21,893 | 47.5 | +12.3 | |
Conservative | Peter Hubbard-Miles | 17,513 | 38.0 | −0.4 | |
SDP | Russell Smart | 5,590 | 12.1 | −11.1 | |
Plaid Cymru | Laura McAllister | 1,065 | 2.3 | −0.9 | |
Majority | 4,380 | 9.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 46,061 | 80.3 | +3.3 | ||
Registered electors | 57,389 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +6.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Win Griffiths | 24,143 | 51.3 | +3.8 | |
Conservative | David Unwin | 16,817 | 35.7 | −2.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | David Mills | 4,827 | 10.3 | −1.8 | |
Plaid Cymru | Alun Lloyd Jones | 1,301 | 2.8 | +0.5 | |
Majority | 7,326 | 15.6 | +6.1 | ||
Turnout | 47,088 | 80.5 | +0.2 | ||
Registered electors | 58,531 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +3.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Win Griffiths | 25,115 | 58.1 | +6.8 | |
Conservative | David Davies | 9,867 | 22.8 | −12.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Mckinlay | 4,968 | 11.5 | +1.2 | |
Referendum | Tudor Greaves | 1,662 | 3.8 | N/A | |
Plaid Cymru | Dennis Watkins | 1,649 | 3.8 | +1.0 | |
Majority | 15,248 | 35.3 | +19.7 | ||
Turnout | 43,261 | 72.3 | −8.2 | ||
Registered electors | 59,826 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Win Griffiths | 19,423 | 52.5 | −5.6 | |
Conservative | Tania Brisby | 9,377 | 25.3 | +2.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jean Barraclough | 5,330 | 14.4 | +2.9 | |
Plaid Cymru | Monica Mahoney | 2,653 | 7.2 | +3.4 | |
ProLife Alliance | Sara Jeremy | 223 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,046 | 27.2 | −8.1 | ||
Turnout | 37,006 | 60.2 | −12.1 | ||
Registered electors | 61,496 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Madeleine Moon | 16,410 | 43.3 | −9.2 | |
Conservative | Helen Baker | 9,887 | 26.1 | +0.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul Warren | 7,949 | 21.0 | +6.6 | |
Plaid Cymru | Gareth Clubb | 2,527 | 6.7 | −0.5 | |
Green | Jonathan Spink | 595 | 1.6 | N/A | |
UKIP | Kunnathur Rajan | 491 | 1.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,523 | 17.2 | –10.0 | ||
Turnout | 37,859 | 59.2 | −1.0 | ||
Registered electors | 63,936 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | −5.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Madeleine Moon | 13,931 | 36.3 | −6.6 | |
Conservative | Helen Baker | 11,668 | 30.4 | +5.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Wayne Morgan | 8,658 | 22.6 | +0.5 | |
Plaid Cymru | Nicholas Thomas | 2,269 | 5.9 | −1.0 | |
BNP | Brian Urch | 1,020 | 2.7 | N/A | |
UKIP | Dave Fulton | 801 | 2.1 | +0.9 | |
Majority | 2,263 | 5.9 | –11.3 | ||
Turnout | 38,347 | 65.3 | +5.6 | ||
Registered electors | 58,700 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | −6.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Madeleine Moon | 14,624 | 37.1 | +0.8 | |
Conservative | Meirion Jenkins | 12,697 | 32.2 | +1.8 | |
UKIP | Caroline Jones | 5,911 | 15.0 | +12.9 | |
Plaid Cymru | James Radcliffe [23] | 2,784 | 7.1 | +1.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Anita Davies [24] | 1,648 | 4.2 | −18.4 | |
Independent | Les Morris | 763 | 1.9 | N/A | |
Green | Tony White | 736 | 1.9 | N/A | |
TUSC | Aaron David | 118 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Pirate | David Elston | 106 | 0.3 | N/A | |
National Front | Adam Lloyd | 66 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 63 | ||||
Majority | 1,927 | 4.9 | −1.0 | ||
Turnout | 39,453 | 65.8 | +0.5 | ||
Registered electors | 59,998 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | −0.5 | |||
Of the 63 rejected ballots:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Madeleine Moon | 21,913 | 50.7 | +13.6 | |
Conservative | Karen Robson | 17,213 | 39.8 | +7.6 | |
Plaid Cymru | Rhys Watkins | 1,783 | 4.1 | −3.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jonathan Pratt | 919 | 2.1 | −2.1 | |
UKIP | Alun Williams | 781 | 1.8 | −13.2 | |
Independent | Isabel Robson | 646 | 1.5 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 55 | ||||
Majority | 4,700 | 10.9 | +6.0 | ||
Turnout | 43,255 | 69.6 | +3.8 | ||
Registered electors | 62,185 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +3.0 | |||
Of the 55 rejected ballots:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jamie Wallis | 18,193 | 43.1 | +3.3 | |
Labour | Madeleine Moon | 17,036 | 40.3 | –10.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jonathan Pratt | 2,368 | 5.6 | +3.5 | |
Plaid Cymru | Leanne Lewis | 2,013 | 4.8 | +0.7 | |
Brexit Party | Robert Morgan | 1,811 | 4.3 | N/A | |
Green | Alex Harris | 815 | 1.9 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 101 | ||||
Majority | 1,157 | 2.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 42,236 | 66.7 | –2.9 | ||
Registered electors | 63,303 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +6.9 | |||
Of the 101 rejected ballots:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Anita Boateng | ||||
Plaid Cymru | Iolo Caudy | ||||
Green | Debra Ann Cooper | ||||
Labour | Chirs Elmore | ||||
Independent | Mark John | ||||
Reform UK | Caroline Jones | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Claire Waller | ||||
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