Cynon Valley (UK Parliament constituency)

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Cynon Valley
Former county constituency
for the House of Commons
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Boundary of Cynon Valley in Wales
Preserved county Mid Glamorgan
Electorate 52,372 (December 2010) [1]
Major settlements Aberdare, Mountain Ash, Hirwaun
1983–2024
SeatsOne
Created from Aberdare and parts of Brecon and Radnor and Neath [2]
Senedd Cynon Valley, South Wales Central

Cynon Valley (Welsh : Cwm Cynon) was a constituency [n 1] in Wales, of the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 1983 to 2024. Its last MP from 2019 to 2024 was Beth Winter of the Labour Party. [n 2]

Contents

The Cynon Valley 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 Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare, and Pontypridd. [3]

Boundaries

Cynon Valley (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of boundaries 2010-2024

1983–2010: The Borough of Cynon Valley.

2010–2024: The Rhondda Cynon Taff County Borough electoral divisions of Aberaman North, Aberaman South, Abercynon, Aberdare East, Aberdare West/Llwydcoed, Cilfynydd, Cwmbach, Glyncoch, Hirwaun, Mountain Ash East, Mountain Ash West, Penrhiwceiber, Pen-y-waun, Rhigos, and Ynysybwl.

The constituency encompasses the towns of Aberdare, Mountain Ash, Cilfynydd, Abercynon and Hirwaun.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [4] Party
1983 Ioan Evans Labour Co-op
1984 by-election Ann Clwyd Labour
2019 Beth Winter Labour
2024 Constituency abolished
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Elections

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1983: Cynon Valley [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Ioan Evans 20,668 56.0 N/A
SDP Felix Aubel7,59420.6N/A
Conservative James Arbuthnot 5,24014.2N/A
Plaid Cymru Pauline Jarman 3,4219.3N/A
Majority13,07435.4N/A
Turnout 36,92373.4N/A
Registered electors 50,284
Labour Co-op win (new seat)
1984 Cynon Valley by-election [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ann Clwyd 19,389 58.8 +2.8
SDP Felix Aubel6,55419.9−0.7
Plaid Cymru Clayton F. Jones3,61911.0+1.8
Conservative James Arbuthnot 2,4417.4−6.8
Communist Mary Winter6421.9N/A
Independent Noel E. Rencontre2150.6N/A
Independent Paul Nicholls-Jones1220.4N/A
Majority12,83538.9+3.5
Turnout 32,98265.7−7.7
Registered electors 50,237
Labour hold Swing
General election 1987: Cynon Valley [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ann Clwyd 26,222 68.9 +12.9
SDP Keith Butler4,65112.2−8.4
Conservative Mark Bishop4,63812.2−2.0
Plaid Cymru Dorothy Richards2,5496.7−2.6
Majority21,57156.7+21.3
Turnout 38,06076.7+3.3
Registered electors 49,621
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1992: Cynon Valley [8] [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ann Clwyd 26,254 69.1 +0.2
Conservative Andrew Smith4,89012.9+0.7
Plaid Cymru Clifford Benney4,18611.0+4.3
Liberal Democrats Marcello Verma2,6677.0−5.2
Majority21,36456.2−0.5
Turnout 37,99776.5−0.2
Registered electors 49,695
Labour hold Swing −0.2
General election 1997: Cynon Valley [10] [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ann Clwyd 23,307 69.7 +0.6
Plaid Cymru Alun Davies 3,55210.6−0.4
Liberal Democrats Huw Price3,45910.3+3.3
Conservative Andrew Smith2,2606.8−6.1
Referendum Gwyn John8442.5N/A
Majority19,75559.1+2.9
Turnout 33,42269.2−7.3
Registered electors 48,286
Labour hold Swing +0.5

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2001: Cynon Valley [12] [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ann Clwyd 17,685 65.6 −4.1
Plaid Cymru Steven J. Cornelius4,68717.4+6.8
Liberal Democrats Ian Parry2,5419.4−0.9
Conservative Julian Waters2,0457.6+0.8
Majority12,99848.2−10.9
Turnout 26,95855.4−13.8
Registered electors 48,639
Labour hold Swing −5.4
General election 2005: Cynon Valley [14] [15]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ann Clwyd 17,074 64.1 −1.5
Plaid Cymru Geraint Benney3,81514.3−3.1
Liberal Democrats Margaret Phelps2,99111.2+1.8
Conservative Antonia Dunn2,0627.7+0.1
UKIP Sue Davies7052.6N/A
Majority13,25949.8+1.6
Turnout 26,64758.7+3.3
Registered electors 44,803
Labour hold Swing +0.8

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2010: Cynon Valley [16] [17]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ann Clwyd 15,681 52.5 −10.5
Plaid Cymru Dafydd Trystan Davies 6,06420.3+6.8
Liberal Democrats Lee Thacker4,12013.8+1.6
Conservative Juliette Ash3,01010.1+2.1
UKIP Frank Hughes1,0013.4+0.7
Majority9,61732.2−17.6
Turnout 29,87659.0−1.3
Registered electors 50,650
Labour hold Swing −8.6
General election 2015: Cynon Valley [18] [19] [20] [21]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ann Clwyd 14,532 47.7 −4.8
Plaid Cymru Cerith Griffiths5,12616.8−3.5
UKIP Rebecca Rees-Evans4,97616.3+12.9
Conservative Keith Dewhurst3,67612.1+2.0
Liberal Democrats Angharad Jones8302.7−11.1
Green John Matthews7992.6N/A
Socialist Labour Chris Beggs5331.7N/A
Rejected ballots81
Majority9,40630.9−1.3
Turnout 30,47259.3+0.3
Registered electors 51,422
Labour hold Swing −0.6

Of the 81 rejected ballots:

General election 2017: Cynon Valley [22] [23]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ann Clwyd 19,404 61.0 +13.3
Conservative Keith Dewhurst6,16619.4+7.3
Plaid Cymru Liz Walters4,37613.8−3.0
UKIP Ian McLean1,2714.0−12.3
Liberal Democrats Nicola Knight5851.8−0.9
Majority13,23841.6+11.7
Turnout 31,80262.0+2.7
Registered electors 51,334
Labour hold Swing +3.0
General election 2019: Cynon Valley [24] [25] [26]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Beth Winter 15,533 51.4 −9.6
Conservative Pauline Church6,71122.2+2.8
Brexit Party Rebecca Rees-Evans3,04510.1N/A
Plaid Cymru Geraint Benney2,5628.5−5.3
Cynon Valley Andrew Chainey1,3224.4N/A
Liberal Democrats Steve Bray 9493.1+1.3
SDP Ian McLean1140.4N/A
Majority8,82229.2−12.4
Turnout 30,23659.1−2.9
Registered electors 51,134
Labour hold Swing -6.2

See also

Notes

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

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