Clwyd South (UK Parliament constituency)

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Clwyd South
Former county constituency
for the House of Commons
ClwydSouth2007Constituency.svg
Boundary of Clwyd South in Wales
Preserved county Clwyd
Electorate 54,895 (December 2010) [1]
Major settlementsChirk, Corwen, Ruabon, Rhosllannerchrugog, Llangollen, Coedpoeth
1997–2024
SeatsOne
Created from Clwyd South West, Wrexham
Senedd Clwyd South, North Wales

Clwyd South (Welsh : De Clwyd) was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster). The constituency was created in 1997, and it elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post method of election.

Contents

The Clwyd South Senedd constituency was created with the same boundaries in 1999 (as an Assembly constituency).

The constituency was abolished as part of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies and under the June 2023 final recommendations of the Boundary Commission for Wales. Its wards were split between Clwyd East, Dwyfor Meirionnydd, Montgomeryshire and Glyndŵr, and Wrexham. [2]

Boundaries

Clwyd South (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of boundaries 2010-2024

The constituency straddled the authorities of Denbighshire and the borough of Wrexham. Main population centres included the suburbs of Ruabon, Chirk, Rhosllannerchrugog, Cefn Mawr and Coedpoeth to the south of the city of Wrexham, in addition to Llangollen and Corwen further up the Dee valley to the west. Until the 2010 election, the constituency included a small part of the preserved county of Powys. This anomaly was resolved by the Boundary Commission for Wales with the boundaries first used in 2010.

The constituency comprised the following electoral wards:

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [3] Party
1997 Martyn Jones Labour
2010 Susan Elan Jones Labour
2019 Simon Baynes Conservative
2024 Constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1997: Clwyd South [4] [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Martyn Jones 22,901 58.1 N/A
Conservative Boris Johnson 9,09123.1N/A
Liberal Democrats Andrew Chadwick3,6849.4N/A
Plaid Cymru Gareth Williams2,5006.3N/A
Referendum Alex Lewis1,2073.1N/A
Majority13,81035.0N/A
Turnout 39,38373.6N/A
Registered electors 53,495
Labour win (new seat)

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2001: Clwyd South [6] [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Martyn Jones 17,217 51.4 −6.7
Conservative Tom Biggins8,31924.8+1.7
Plaid Cymru Dyfed Edwards3,98211.9+5.6
Liberal Democrats David Griffiths3,42610.2+0.8
UKIP Edwina Theunissen5521.6N/A
Majority8,89826.6−8.4
Turnout 33,49662.4−11.2
Registered electors 53,680
Labour hold Swing -4.2
General election 2005: Clwyd South [8] [9] [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Martyn Jones 14,808 45.0 −6.4
Conservative Tom Biggins8,46025.7+0.9
Liberal Democrats Deric Burnham5,10515.5+5.3
Plaid Cymru Mark Strong3,1119.4−2.5
Forward Wales Alwyn Humphreys8032.4N/A
UKIP Nick Powell6442.0+0.4
Rejected ballots298
Majority6,34819.3−7.3
Turnout 32,93162.9+0.5
Registered electors 52,353
Labour hold Swing -3.7

Of the 298 rejected ballots:

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2010: Clwyd South [11] [12] [13] [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Susan Elan Jones 13,311 38.4 −6.8
Conservative John Bell10,47730.2+4.8
Liberal Democrats Bruce Roberts5,96517.2+1.7
Plaid Cymru Janet Ryder 3,0098.7−0.8
BNP Sarah Hynes1,1003.2N/A
UKIP Nick Powell8192.4+0.4
Majority2,8348.2−11.1
Turnout 34,68164.5+3.3
Registered electors 53,748
Labour hold Swing -5.8
General election 2015: Clwyd South [15] [16] [17]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Susan Elan Jones 13,051 37.2 −1.2
Conservative David Nicholls [18] 10,64930.4+0.2
UKIP Mandy Jones 5,48015.6+13.2
Plaid Cymru Mabon ap Gwynfor3,62010.3+1.6
Liberal Democrats Bruce Roberts1,3493.8−13.4
Green Duncan Rees9152.6N/A
Rejected ballots55
Majority2,4026.8−1.4
Turnout 35,06463.8−0.7
Registered electors 54,996
Labour hold Swing -0.7

Of the 55 rejected ballots:

General election 2017: Clwyd South [19] [20] [21]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Susan Elan Jones 19,002 50.7 +13.5
Conservative Simon Baynes 14,64639.1+8.7
Plaid Cymru Christopher Allen2,2936.1−4.2
UKIP Jeanette Bassford-Barton8022.1−13.5
Liberal Democrats Bruce Roberts7312.0−1.8
Rejected ballots56
Majority4,35611.6+4.8
Turnout 37,47368.9+5.1
Registered electors 54,266
Labour hold Swing +2.4

Of the 56 rejected ballots:

General election 2019: Clwyd South [22] [23] [24]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Simon Baynes 16,222 44.7 +5.6
Labour Susan Elan Jones 14,98341.3−9.4
Plaid Cymru Christopher Allen2,1375.9−0.2
Liberal Democrats Calum Davies1,4964.1+2.1
Brexit Party Jamie Adams1,4684.0N/A
Rejected ballots110
Majority1,2393.4N/A
Turnout 36,30667.3−1.6
Registered electors 53,919
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +7.5

Of the 110 rejected ballots:

See also

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