Colours on map indicate the party allegiance of each constituency's MP. |
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Welsh constituencies for the Fifty-Sixth Parliament of the United Kingdom (2015 to 2017).
It includes both MPs elected at the 2015 general election, held on 7 May 2015, and those subsequently elected in by-elections.
The list is sorted by the name of the MP, and MPs who did not serve throughout the Parliament are italicised. New MPs elected since the general election are noted at the bottom of the page.
Affiliation | MembersMembers [1] | |
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Welsh Labour Party | 25 | |
Welsh Conservative Party | 11 | |
Plaid Cymru | 3 | |
Welsh Liberal Democrats | 1 | |
Total | 40 |
There has been one by-election since the 2015 general election in Ogmore following the election of Huw Irranca-Davies to the Welsh Assembly.
MP | Constituency | Party | In constituency since | |
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Chris Elmore | Ogmore | Labour Party | 2016 |
In the United Kingdom, a member of Parliament (MP) is an individual elected to serve in the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
There are four types of elections in Wales: elections to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elections to the devolved Senedd, local elections to community councils and the 22 principal areas, and the police and crime commissioner elections. In addition there are by-elections for each aforementioned election. Elections are held on Election Day, which is conventionally a Thursday. Three of these four types of elections are held after fixed periods; the exception is UK general elections, the timing of which is at the discretion of the prime minister of the United Kingdom. Senedd elections may be postponed to avoid elections to the UK parliament and Senedd coinciding with each other.
Gerald Jones is a Welsh Labour Party politician, serving as Assistant Government Whip who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare, previously Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney since 2015. He was Shadow Minister for Scotland from 2023-2024 and previously served as a Shadow Wales Office minister.