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Powys is a county and preserved county in Wales. It borders Gwynedd,Denbighshire,and Wrexham to the north;the English ceremonial counties of Shropshire and Herefordshire to the east;Monmouthshire,Blaenau Gwent,Merthyr Tydfil,Caerphilly,Rhondda Cynon Taf,and Neath Port Talbot to the south;and Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion to the west. The largest settlement is Newtown,and the administrative centre is Llandrindod Wells.
Until 1974,Montgomeryshire was an administrative county in mid Wales,later classed as one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales. It was named after its county town,Montgomery,which in turn was named after one of William the Conqueror's main counsellors,Roger de Montgomerie,who was the 1st Earl of Shrewsbury.
Welshpool is a market town and community in Powys,Wales,historically in the county of Montgomeryshire. The town is four miles from the Wales–England border and low-lying on the River Severn;its Welsh language name Y Trallwng means "the marshy or sinking land". The community includes Cloddiau and Pool Quay.
Montgomery is a town and community in Powys,Wales. It is the traditional county town of the historic county of Montgomeryshire to which it gives its name,and it is within the Welsh Marches border area. The town centre lies about 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the England–Wales border. Montgomery Castle was started in 1223 and its parish church in 1227. Other locations in the town include The Old Bell Museum,the Offa's Dyke Path,the Robber's Grave and the town wall. The large Iron Age hill fort of Ffridd Faldwyn is sited northwest of the town and west of the Castle.
Brecon and Radnorshire is a county constituency in Wales of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Created in 1918,it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election. The constituency is represented by Fay Jones of the Conservative Party,who defeated incumbent Jane Dodds of the Liberal Democrats at the 2019 general election.
Montgomeryshire is a constituency in Wales represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.
The ceremonial county of Shropshire,England,is divided into 5 parliamentary constituencies –1 borough constituency and 4 county constituencies. As with all constituencies for the House of Commons in the modern age,each constituency elects one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post system.
The District of Montgomeryshire or Montgomery was one of three local government districts of the county of Powys,Wales,from 1974 until 1996. The district had an identical area to the previous administrative county of Montgomeryshire. The district was abolished in 1996,with Powys County Council taking over its functions.
Ceredigion and Pembroke North was a county constituency in southwestern Wales which elected one MP via the first past the post electoral system. It was located in the preserved county of Dyfed.
Edward Glyn Davies is a former Welsh Conservative politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Montgomeryshire from 2010 to 2019. Davies previously served as a Member of the Welsh Assembly (AM) for the Mid and West Wales region from 1999 to 2007.
Forden is a village near Welshpool in Powys,Wales,formerly in the historic county of Montgomeryshire. It forms part of the community of Forden,Leighton and Trelystan with the neighbouring settlements of Trelystan,Leighton and Kingswood.
Alun Craig Williams is a British politician who has served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister since October 2022. A member of the Conservative Party,he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cardiff North from 2015 to 2017,when he was defeated for reelection by Labour's Anna McMorrin. At the 2019 general election,Williams was elected as the MP for Montgomeryshire.
The sixth election to the Powys County Council since local government reorganization in Wales in 1995 was held on 4 May 2017,along with other local government elections. It was preceded by the 2012 election and was followed by the 2022 election.
Jane Dodds MS is a Welsh politician who has served as Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats since 2017. She was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brecon and Radnorshire at the seat's 2019 by-election,but was an MP for only three months before being defeated in the general election later the same year. In May 2021,Dodds was elected to the Senedd on the Mid and West Wales list. She is the only Liberal Democrat MS in the Senedd.
Llanwddyn was the name of an electoral wards in the far north of Powys,Wales. It covered the community of Llanwddyn as well as the neighbouring communities of Llangynog and Pen-y-Bont-Fawr. The ward elected a county councillor to Powys County Council.
The region of West Midlands is divided into 59 parliamentary constituencies which is made up of 35 borough constituencies and 24 county constituencies. Since the general election of December 2019,42 are represented by Conservative MPs,16 by Labour MPs,and 1 by a Liberal Democrat MP.
Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn is a local government community in mid Powys,Wales. It includes the town of Newtown and the small neighbouring village of Llanllwchaiarn. At the time of the 2011 census the population of the community was 11,357. The community council is called Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn Town Council,often abbreviated to Newtown Town Council.
Welshpool Llanerchyddol is the name of an electoral ward in the town of Welshpool,Powys,Wales. It elects a councillor to Powys County Council.
A by-election was held in the UK Parliament constituency of Brecon and Radnorshire on 1 August 2019 after Chris Davies,who had held the seat for the Conservatives since the 2015 general election,was unseated by a recall petition. The by-election was won by Jane Dodds of the Liberal Democrats.
Simon Robert Maurice Baynes is a British Conservative politician who served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice and Tackling Illegal Migration from July to September 2022. He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Clwyd South at the 2019 general election. Baynes worked in finance for J.P. Morgan Cazenove from 1982 to 2006,before running a small bookshop in Shrewsbury.
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- Times Guide to the House of Commons 1983
