Clwyd South | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Preserved county | Clwyd |
Electorate | 54,895 (December 2010) [1] |
Major settlements | Chirk, Corwen, Ruabon, Rhosllannerchrugog, Llangollen, Coedpoeth |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of Parliament | Simon Baynes (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Clwyd South West, Wrexham |
Overlaps | |
Senedd | Clwyd South, North Wales |
Clwyd South (Welsh : De Clwyd) is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster). The constituency was created in 1997, and it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post method of election.
The Clwyd South Senedd constituency was created with the same boundaries in 1999 (as an Assembly constituency).
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 Clwyd East, Dwyfor Meirionnydd, Montgomeryshire and Glyndŵr, and Wrexham. [2]
The constituency straddles the authorities of Denbighshire and the borough of Wrexham. Main population centres includes the suburbs of Ruabon, Chirk, Rhosllannerchrugog, Cefn Mawr and Coedpoeth to the south of the city of Wrexham, in addition to Llangollen and Corwen further up the Dee valley to the west. Until the 2010 election, the constituency used to include a small part of the preserved county of Powys. This anomaly was resolved by the Boundary Commission for Wales with the boundaries first used in 2010.
The constituency comprises the following electoral wards:
Election | Member [3] | Party | |
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1997 | Martyn Jones | Labour | |
2010 | Susan Elan Jones | Labour | |
2019 | Simon Baynes | Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Martyn Jones | 22,901 | 58.1 | N/A | |
Conservative | Boris Johnson | 9,091 | 23.1 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Chadwick | 3,684 | 9.4 | N/A | |
Plaid Cymru | Gareth Williams | 2,500 | 6.3 | N/A | |
Referendum | Alex Lewis | 1,207 | 3.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 13,810 | 35.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 39,383 | 73.6 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 53,495 | ||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Martyn Jones | 17,217 | 51.4 | -6.7 | |
Conservative | Tom Biggins | 8,319 | 24.8 | +1.7 | |
Plaid Cymru | Dyfed Edwards | 3,982 | 11.9 | +5.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | David Griffiths | 3,426 | 10.2 | +0.8 | |
UKIP | Edwina Theunissen | 552 | 1.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,898 | 26.6 | -8.4 | ||
Turnout | 33,496 | 62.4 | -11.2 | ||
Registered electors | 53,680 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -4.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Martyn Jones | 14,808 | 45.0 | -6.4 | |
Conservative | Tom Biggins | 8,460 | 25.7 | +0.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Deric Burnham | 5,105 | 15.5 | +5.3 | |
Plaid Cymru | Mark Strong | 3,111 | 9.4 | -2.5 | |
Forward Wales | Alwyn Humphreys | 803 | 2.4 | N/A | |
UKIP | Nick Powell | 644 | 2.0 | +0.4 | |
Rejected ballots | 298 | ||||
Majority | 6,348 | 19.3 | -7.3 | ||
Turnout | 32,931 | 62.9 | +0.5 | ||
Registered electors | 52,353 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -3.7 | |||
Of the 298 rejected ballots:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Susan Elan Jones | 13,311 | 38.4 | -6.8 | |
Conservative | John Bell | 10,477 | 30.2 | +4.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Bruce Roberts | 5,965 | 17.2 | +1.7 | |
Plaid Cymru | Janet Ryder | 3,009 | 8.7 | -0.8 | |
BNP | Sarah Hynes | 1,100 | 3.2 | N/A | |
UKIP | Nick Powell | 819 | 2.4 | +0.4 | |
Majority | 2,834 | 8.2 | -11.1 | ||
Turnout | 34,681 | 64.5 | +3.3 | ||
Registered electors | 53,748 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -5.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Susan Elan Jones | 13,051 | 37.2 | -1.2 | |
Conservative | David Nicholls [18] | 10,649 | 30.4 | +0.2 | |
UKIP | Mandy Jones | 5,480 | 15.6 | +13.2 | |
Plaid Cymru | Mabon ap Gwynfor | 3,620 | 10.3 | +1.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Bruce Roberts | 1,349 | 3.8 | -13.4 | |
Green | Duncan Rees | 915 | 2.6 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 55 | ||||
Majority | 2,402 | 6.8 | -1.4 | ||
Turnout | 35,064 | 63.8 | -0.7 | ||
Registered electors | 54,996 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -0.7 | |||
Of the 55 rejected ballots:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Susan Elan Jones | 19,002 | 50.7 | +13.5 | |
Conservative | Simon Baynes | 14,646 | 39.1 | +8.7 | |
Plaid Cymru | Christopher Allen | 2,293 | 6.1 | -4.2 | |
UKIP | Jeanette Bassford-Barton | 802 | 2.1 | -13.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Bruce Roberts | 731 | 2.0 | -1.8 | |
Rejected ballots | 56 | ||||
Majority | 4,356 | 11.6 | +4.8 | ||
Turnout | 37,473 | 68.9 | +5.1 | ||
Registered electors | 54,266 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.4 | |||
Of the 56 rejected ballots:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Simon Baynes | 16,222 | 44.7 | +5.6 | |
Labour | Susan Elan Jones | 14,983 | 41.3 | -9.4 | |
Plaid Cymru | Christopher Allen | 2,137 | 5.9 | -0.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Calum Davies | 1,496 | 4.1 | +2.1 | |
Brexit Party | Jamie Adams | 1,468 | 4.0 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 110 | ||||
Majority | 1,239 | 3.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 36,306 | 67.3 | -1.6 | ||
Registered electors | 53,919 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +7.5 | |||
Of the 110 rejected ballots:
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