Monmouth Mynwy | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Preserved county | Gwent |
Electorate | 65,432 (December 2010) [1] |
Major settlements | Abergavenny, Chepstow, Monmouth |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1918 |
Member of Parliament | David Davies (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Monmouth Boroughs, North Monmouthshire and South Monmouthshire |
Overlaps | |
Senedd | Monmouth, South Wales East |
Monmouth (Welsh : Mynwy) is a county constituency [n 1] of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster). The seat was created for the 1918 general election. Since 2005 the Member of Parliament (MP) has been David Davies of the Conservative Party. [n 2]
The Monmouth Senedd constituency, created in 1999, has normally the same boundaries as the Westminster constituency. These cover a large area, omitting the mainly urban areas of Blaenau Gwent in the west and Newport, Wales in the south.
The constituency is set to be abolished, 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 next United Kingdom general election. Its wards is to be split between Monmouthshire and Torfaen. [2]
The constituency is considered a safe seat of the Conservative Party although the seat has been won by the Labour Party in three general elections – in addition to the 1991 by-election.
The current MP is the Conservative David Davies, elected in 2005 and a former member for the Senedd seat of the same name. To avoid confusion with the Yorkshire Conservative David Davis, he is named in Hansard as "David T. C. Davies".
The constituency is one of eight covering the preserved county of Gwent. The other seven are Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Islwyn, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Newport East, Newport West and Torfaen. Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, however, straddles the boundary with the preserved county of Mid Glamorgan. It covers most of current local authority of Monmouthshire, with the main towns being Chepstow, Monmouth and Abergavenny.
For the 2010 general election, there were no changes to the boundaries of the Monmouth constituency stemming from the Fifth Review of the Boundary Commission for Wales. [3] Likewise there were no boundary changes in 1997.
As first used in the 1918 general election, the constituency was a creation of the Representation of the People Act 1918 as one of six constituencies covering the county of Monmouth. Prior to the 1918 election the county had been covered, nominally, by the county constituencies of Northern Monmouthshire, Southern Monmouthshire, and Western Monmouthshire, and the Monmouth Boroughs borough constituency. By 1918, however, administrative county boundaries were out of alignment with constituency boundaries. The new constituency boundaries took account of the new local government boundaries.
The other Monmouthshire constituencies defined by the 1918 legislation were the county constituencies of Abertillery, Bedwellty, Ebbw Vale and Pontypool, and the borough constituency of Newport. This general pattern was maintained until 1983, nine years after the administrative county they were based on had been abolished, but there were some boundary changes during the 1918 to 1983 period.
In 1918 the Monmouth constituency was defined as consisting of the municipal boroughs of Abergavenny, and Monmouth, the urban districts of Caerleon, Chepstow, and Usk, the rural districts of Abergavenny, Chepstow, Magor, Monmouth, Cwmbran and Pontypool, and part of the rural district of St Mellons. [4] The same boundaries were used for the general elections of 1922, 1923, 1924, 1929, 1931, 1935 and 1945.
New boundaries, created by the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949, were used for the 1950 general election, and the Monmouth constituency was defined as consisting of the municipal boroughs of Abergavenny and Monmouth, the urban districts of Caerleon, Chepstow, Cwmbran and Usk, and the rural districts of Abergavenny, Chepstow, Magor and St Mellons, Monmouth, and Pontypool. [4]
For the 1951 general election, there was some alteration to the boundaries of rural district of Magor and St Mellons. [4]
The constituency was redefined again for the 1955 general election, taking account of new local government boundaries. The result was the same list of boroughs and districts as for the 1951 election. [4] 1951 boundaries were used also in the general elections of 1959, 1964, 1966, 1970, February 1974, October 1974 and 1979.
In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, the local government county of Monmouth was abolished. For the 1983 general election, new constituency boundaries were drawn, taking account of new local government boundaries.
The following list does not include MPs who actually represented Monmouth Boroughs:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Leolin Forestier-Walker | 9,164 | 59.7 | N/A | |
Liberal | Hubert Martineau | 6,189 | 40.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,975 | 19.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 15,353 | 55.7 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 27,575 | ||||
Unionist win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Leolin Forestier-Walker | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 29,779 | ||||
Unionist hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Leolin Forestier-Walker | 12,697 | 59.9 | N/A | |
Liberal | Morgan Griffith | 8,487 | 40.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,210 | 19.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 21,184 | 80.9 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 29,889 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Leolin Forestier-Walker | 16,510 | 71.8 | +11.9 | |
Labour | Luke Bateman | 6,469 | 28.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,041 | 43.6 | -20.2 | ||
Turnout | 22,979 | 74.1 | +3.2 | ||
Registered electors | 31,031 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Leolin Forestier-Walker | 16,353 | 49.3 | -22.5 | |
Liberal | Richard Charles Williams | 8,582 | 25.8 | N/A | |
Labour | Luke Bateman | 8,268 | 24.9 | -3.3 | |
Majority | 7,771 | 23.5 | -20.1 | ||
Turnout | 33,203 | 78.9 | +4.8 | ||
Registered electors | 42,070 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Leolin Forestier-Walker | 24,829 | 70.8 | +21.5 | |
Labour | D. Hughes | 10,217 | 29.2 | +4.3 | |
Majority | 14,612 | 41.6 | +18.1 | ||
Turnout | 45,046 | 78.0 | -0.9 | ||
Registered electors | 44,929 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Herbert | 20,640 | 65.0 | -5.8 | |
Labour | D. Hughes | 11,094 | 35.0 | +5.8 | |
Majority | 9,546 | 30.0 | -11.6 | ||
Turnout | 31,734 | 69.2 | -8.8 | ||
Registered electors | 45,885 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -5.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Herbert | 23,262 | 63.4 | -7.4 | |
Labour | Michael Mackintosh Foot | 13,454 | 36.6 | +7.4 | |
Majority | 9,808 | 26.8 | -14.8 | ||
Turnout | 36,716 | 76.8 | -1.4 | ||
Registered electors | 47,792 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -1.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Leslie Pym | 17,358 | 60.1 | -3.3 | |
Labour | Frank Rivers Hancock | 11,543 | 39.9 | +3.3 | |
Majority | 5,815 | 20.2 | -6.6 | ||
Turnout | 28,901 | 58.2 | -18.6 | ||
Registered electors | 49,690 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -3.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Leslie Pym | 22,195 | 51.9 | -11.5 | |
Labour | A B L Oakley | 20,543 | 48.1 | +11.5 | |
Majority | 1,652 | 3.8 | -23.0 | ||
Turnout | 42,738 | 72.0 | -4.8 | ||
Registered electors | 59,359 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -8.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Thorneycroft | 21,092 | 52.7 | +0.8 | |
Labour | A B L Oakley | 18,953 | 47.3 | -0.8 | |
Majority | 2,139 | 5.4 | +1.6 | ||
Turnout | 40,045 | 39.8 | -32.2 | ||
Registered electors | 60,013 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Thorneycroft | 21,956 | 55.3 | +3.4 | |
Labour | G P Thomas | 17,725 | 44.7 | -3.4 | |
Majority | 4,231 | 10.6 | +6.8 | ||
Turnout | 39,681 | 83.1 | +11.1 | ||
Registered electors | 47,725 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Thorneycroft | 22,475 | 55.6 | +0.3 | |
Labour | Josephine Richardson | 17,952 | 44.4 | -0.3 | |
Majority | 4,523 | 11.2 | +0.6 | ||
Turnout | 40,247 | 83.7 | +0.6 | ||
Registered electors | 48,314 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Thorneycroft | 22,970 | 57.2 | +1.6 | |
Labour | Josephine Richardson | 17,173 | 42.8 | -1.6 | |
Majority | 5,797 | 14.4 | +3.2 | ||
Turnout | 40,143 | 81.5 | -2.2 | ||
Registered electors | 49,252 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Thorneycroft | 25,422 | 57.0 | -0.2 | |
Labour | Gordon Parry | 19,165 | 43.0 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 6,257 | 14.0 | -0.4 | ||
Turnout | 44,587 | 83.1 | +1.6 | ||
Registered electors | 53,628 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Thorneycroft | 22,635 | 44.1 | -12.9 | |
Labour | A Calvin Kerr | 21,921 | 42.7 | -0.3 | |
Liberal | D Hywell Davies | 6,764 | 13.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 714 | 1.4 | -12.6 | ||
Turnout | 51,050 | 84.4 | +1.3 | ||
Registered electors | 60,803 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Donald Anderson | 28,619 | 52.7 | +10.0 | |
Conservative | Peter Thorneycroft | 25,654 | 47.3 | +3.2 | |
Majority | 2,965 | 5.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 54,273 | 84.3 | -0.1 | ||
Registered electors | 64,356 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Stradling Thomas | 28,312 | 46.5 | -0.8 | |
Labour | Donald Anderson | 26,957 | 44.3 | -8.4 | |
Liberal | David H Hando | 4,601 | 6.7 | N/A | |
Plaid Cymru | Stuart K Neale | 1,501 | 2.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,355 | 2.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 61,371 | 80.5 | -3.8 | ||
Registered electors | 75,602 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Stradling Thomas | 27,269 | 43.7 | -2.8 | |
Labour | F R Thompson | 22,707 | 36.4 | -7.9 | |
Liberal | David H Hando | 11,506 | 18.4 | +11.7 | |
Plaid Cymru | E H Spanwick | 930 | 1.5 | -1.0 | |
Majority | 4,562 | 7.3 | +5.1 | ||
Turnout | 62,412 | 84.1 | +3.6 | ||
Registered electors | 74,173 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Stradling Thomas | 25,460 | 42.8 | -0.9 | |
Labour | Richard Faulkner | 23,118 | 36.9 | +0.5 | |
Liberal | David H Hando | 10,076 | 16.9 | -1.5 | |
Plaid Cymru | T Brimmacombe | 839 | 1.4 | -0.1 | |
Majority | 2,342 | 3.9 | -4.4 | ||
Turnout | 59,493 | 79.5 | -4.6 | ||
Registered electors | 74,838 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Stradling Thomas | 33,547 | 50.5 | +7.7 | |
Labour | T M Steel | 23,785 | 35.8 | -1.1 | |
Liberal | David H Hando | 8,494 | 12.8 | -4.1 | |
Plaid Cymru | Gwyn Williams | 641 | 1.0 | -0.4 | |
Majority | 9,762 | 14.7 | +10.8 | ||
Turnout | 66,467 | 83.0 | +3.5 | ||
Registered electors | 80,085 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Stradling Thomas | 21,746 | 49.2 | -1.3 | |
SDP | Clive Lindley | 12,403 | 28.0 | +15.2 | |
Labour | Christopher Short | 9,593 | 21.7 | -14.1 | |
Plaid Cymru | Gwynddri Williams | 493 | 1.1 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 9,343 | 21.2 | +6.5 | ||
Turnout | 44,235 | 78.8 | -4.2 | ||
Registered electors | 56,112 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Stradling Thomas | 22,387 | 47.5 | −1.7 | |
Labour | Katrina Gass | 13,037 | 27.7 | +6.0 | |
SDP | Clive Lindley | 11,313 | 24.0 | −4.0 | |
Plaid Cymru | Sian Meredudd | 363 | 0.8 | −0.3 | |
Majority | 9,530 | 19.8 | −1.4 | ||
Turnout | 47,100 | 80.8 | +2.0 | ||
Registered electors | 58,468 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −2.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Huw Edwards | 17,733 | 39.3 | +11.6 | |
Conservative | Roger Evans | 15,327 | 34.0 | −13.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Frances David | 11,164 | 24.8 | N/A | |
Monster Raving Loony | Screaming Lord Sutch | 314 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Plaid Cymru (Green) | Melvin Witherden | 277 | 0.6 | -0.2 | |
Unitax Independent | Peter Carpenter | 164 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Corrective Party | Lindi St Clair | 121 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,406 | 5.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 45,100 | 75.8 | -5.0 | ||
Registered electors | 59,460 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | -12.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Roger Evans | 24,059 | 47.3 | −0.2 | |
Labour | Huw Edwards | 20,855 | 41.0 | +13.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Frances David | 5,562 | 10.9 | −13.1 | |
Plaid Cymru (Green) | Melvin Witherden | 431 | 0.8 | ±0.0 | |
Majority | 3,204 | 6.3 | -13.5 | ||
Turnout | 50,907 | 86.1 | +5.3 | ||
Registered electors | 59,147 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −6.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Huw Edwards | 23,404 | 47.7 | +6.7 | |
Conservative | Roger Evans | 19,226 | 39.2 | -8.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Mark Williams | 4,689 | 9.6 | -1.3 | |
Referendum | Timothy Warry | 1,190 | 2.4 | N/A | |
Plaid Cymru | Alan Cotton | 516 | 1.1 | +0.3 | |
Majority | 4,178 | 8.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 49,025 | 80.5 | −5.6 | ||
Registered electors | 60,873 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +7.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Huw Edwards | 19,021 | 42.8 | −4.9 | |
Conservative | Roger Evans | 18,637 | 41.9 | +2.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Neil Parker | 5,080 | 11.4 | +1.8 | |
Plaid Cymru | Marc Hubbard | 1,068 | 2.4 | +1.3 | |
UKIP | David Rowlands | 656 | 1.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 384 | 0.9 | −7.6 | ||
Turnout | 44,462 | 71.5 | −9.0 | ||
Registered electors | 62,200 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | −3.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Davies | 21,396 | 46.9 | +5.0 | |
Labour | Huw Edwards | 16,869 | 37.0 | −5.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Phylip A. D. Hobson | 5,852 | 12.8 | +1.4 | |
Plaid Cymru | Jonathan Clark | 993 | 2.2 | −0.2 | |
UKIP | John Bufton | 543 | 1.2 | −0.3 | |
Majority | 4,527 | 9.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 45,653 | 72.4 | +0.9 | ||
Registered electors | 62,233 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +5.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Davies | 22,466 | 48.3 | +1.4 | |
Labour | Hamish Sandison | 12,041 | 25.9 | −11.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Martin Blakebrough | 9,026 | 19.4 | +6.6 | |
Plaid Cymru | Jonathan Clark | 1,273 | 2.7 | +0.5 | |
UKIP | Derek Rowe | 1,126 | 2.4 | +1.2 | |
Green | Steve Millson | 587 | 1.3 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 75 | ||||
Majority | 10,425 | 22.4 | +12.5 | ||
Turnout | 46,519 | 72.2 | −0.2 | ||
Registered electors | 64,538 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +6.2 | |||
Of the 75 rejected ballots:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Davies | 23,701 | 49.9 | +1.6 | |
Labour | Ruth Jones | 12,719 | 26.8 | +0.9 | |
UKIP | Gareth Dunn | 4,942 | 10.4 | +8.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Veronica German | 2,496 | 5.3 | −14.1 | |
Plaid Cymru | Jonathan Clark | 1,875 | 3.9 | +1.2 | |
Green | Christopher Were | 1,629 | 3.4 | +2.1 | |
English Democrat | Stephen Morris | 100 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 104 | ||||
Majority | 10,982 | 23.1 | +0.7 | ||
Turnout | 47,462 | 76.2 | +4.0 | ||
Registered electors | 62,248 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.3 | |||
Of the 104 rejected ballots:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Davies | 26,411 | 53.1 | +3.2 | |
Labour | Ruth Jones | 18,205 | 36.6 | +9.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Veronica German | 2,064 | 4.2 | −1.1 | |
Plaid Cymru | Carole Damon | 1,338 | 2.7 | -1.2 | |
Green | Ian Chandler | 954 | 1.9 | -1.5 | |
UKIP | Roy Neale | 762 | 1.5 | -8.9 | |
Rejected ballots | 64 | ||||
Majority | 8,206 | 16.5 | -6.6 | ||
Turnout | 49,734 | 76.6 | +0.4 | ||
Registered electors | 64,909 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -3.3 | |||
Of the 64 rejected ballots:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Davies | 26,160 | 52.1 | -1.0 | |
Labour | Yvonne Murphy | 16,178 | 32.2 | -4.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alison Willott | 4,909 | 9.8 | +5.6 | |
Green | Ian Chandler | 1,353 | 2.7 | +0.8 | |
Plaid Cymru | Hugh Kocan | 1,182 | 2.4 | -0.3 | |
Independent | Martyn Ford | 435 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 136 | ||||
Majority | 9,982 | 19.9 | +3.4 | ||
Turnout | 50,217 | 74.8 | -1.8 | ||
Registered electors | 67,094 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.7 | |||
Of the 136 rejected ballots:
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