Dwyfor Meirionnydd | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Preserved county | Gwynedd |
Electorate | 45,006 (December 2010) [1] |
Major settlements | Pwllheli, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Porthmadog |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2010 |
Member of Parliament | Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Caernarfon and Meirionnydd Nant Conwy |
Overlaps | |
Senedd | Dwyfor Meirionnydd, Mid and West Wales |
Dwyfor Meirionnydd is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster). The seat was created by the Welsh Boundary Commission for the 2010 general election, and replaced the old north Wales seat of Meirionnydd Nant Conwy. Dwyfor Meirionnydd is bordered to the north by Arfon and Aberconwy. The same boundaries were used for the Dwyfor Meirionnydd Welsh Assembly constituency in the 2007 Welsh Assembly election.
Like its predecessors, it is a Plaid Cymru stronghold, with their candidate in 2019 achieving a majority of 15.9%.
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 2024 United Kingdom general election. [2]
The constituency was created by merging most of Meirionnydd Nant Conwy with the southern part of Caernarfon; the northern area became part of a new Arfon constituency.
The electoral wards used to create the seat are as follows. They are entirely within the preserved county of Gwynedd.
Election | Member | Party | Notes | |
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2010 | Elfyn Llwyd | Plaid Cymru | Plaid Cymru's Westminster parliamentary group leader until 2015 | |
2015 | Liz Saville Roberts | Plaid Cymru | Plaid Cymru's Westminster parliamentary group leader from 2017 | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Plaid Cymru | Elfyn Llwyd | 12,814 | 44.3 | N/A | |
Conservative | Simon Baynes | 6,447 | 22.3 | N/A | |
Labour | Alwyn Humphreys | 4,021 | 13.9 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Stephen Churchlady | 3,538 | 12.2 | N/A | |
Independent | Louise Hughes | 1,310 | 4.5 | N/A | |
UKIP | Frank Wykes | 776 | 2.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,367 | 22.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 28,906 | 63.7 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 45,354 | ||||
Plaid Cymru win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Plaid Cymru | Liz Saville Roberts | 11,811 | 40.9 | -3.4 | |
Conservative | Neil Faircow | 6,550 | 22.7 | +0.4 | |
Labour | Mary Clarke | 3,904 | 13.5 | -0.4 | |
UKIP | Christopher Gillibrand [9] | 3,126 | 10.8 | +8.1 | |
Independent | Louise Hughes | 1,388 | 4.8 | +0.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Stephen Churchlady | 1,153 | 4.0 | -8.2 | |
Green | Marc Feathergill | 981 | 3.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,261 | 18.2 | -3.8 | ||
Turnout | 28,913 | 65.1 | +1.4 | ||
Registered electors | 44,394 | ||||
Plaid Cymru hold | Swing | -1.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Plaid Cymru | Liz Saville Roberts | 13,687 | 45.1 | +4.2 | |
Conservative | Neil Faircow | 8,837 | 29.1 | +6.4 | |
Labour | Mathew Norman | 6,273 | 20.7 | +7.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Stephen Churchlady | 937 | 3.1 | -0.9 | |
UKIP | Frank Wykes | 614 | 2.0 | -8.8 | |
Majority | 4,850 | 16.0 | -2.2 | ||
Turnout | 30,312 | 68.0 | +2.9 | ||
Registered electors | 44,699 | ||||
Plaid Cymru hold | Swing | -1.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Plaid Cymru | Liz Saville Roberts | 14,447 | 48.3 | +3.2 | |
Conservative | Tomos Davies | 9,707 | 32.4 | +3.3 | |
Labour | Graham Hogg | 3,998 | 13.4 | -7.3 | |
Brexit Party | Louise Hughes | 1,776 | 5.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,740 | 15.9 | -0.1 | ||
Turnout | 29,928 | 67.5 | -0.5 | ||
Registered electors | 44,362 | ||||
Plaid Cymru hold | Swing | -0.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tomos Day | ||||
Green | Karl Drinkwater | ||||
Heritage | Joan Ginsberg | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Phoebe Jenkins | ||||
Reform UK | Lucy Murphy | ||||
Plaid Cymru | Liz Saville Roberts | ||||
Labour | Joanna Stallard | ||||
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