Clwyd South West (UK Parliament constituency)
| Clwyd South West | |
|---|---|
|
Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
| Preserved county | Clwyd |
| Major settlements | Rhosllanerchrugog, Llangollen |
| 1983–1997 | |
| Number of members | One |
| Replaced by | Clwyd South, Clwyd West and Vale of Clwyd[1] |
| Created from | Denbigh, Wrexham and Merioneth[1] |
Clwyd South West (Welsh: De-orllewin Clwyd) was a county constituency in Clwyd, North Wales. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by the first past the post system of election.
The constituency was created for the 1983 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election. It was a marginal seat throughout its lifetime.
Boundaries
This was a constituency of a varied nature, being made up of former mining villages close to Wrexham (such as Rhosllannerchrugog), the picturesque town of Llangollen and a large area of sparsely populated countryside.[2] The seat was abolished and broken down into three new constituencies after the recommendation by the Boundary Commission for Wales to create an extra seat in Clwyd for the 1997 general election.[3]
Members of Parliament
| Election | Member[4] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Robert Harvey | Conservative | |
| 1987 | Martyn Jones | Labour | |
| 1997 | constituency abolished: see Clwyd South, Clwyd West and Vale of Clwyd | ||
Elections
Elections in the 1980s
| General Election 1983: Clwyd South West | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Robert Lambart Harvey | 14,575 | 33.8 | N/A | |
| Social Democratic | Robert Thomas Ellis | 13,024 | 30.2 | N/A | |
| Labour | Dennis Bernard Carter | 11,829 | 27.4 | N/A | |
| Plaid Cymru | Antoni Owen Gruffydd Schiavone | 3,684 | 8.6 | N/A | |
| Majority | 1,551 | 3.6 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 43,112 | 77.3 | N/A | ||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| General Election 1987: Clwyd South West | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Martyn David Jones | 16,701 | 35.4 | +8.0 | |
| Conservative | Robert Lambart Harvey | 15,673 | 33.2 | -0.6 | |
| Social Democratic | Robert Thomas Ellis | 10,778 | 22.9 | -7.3 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Eifion Lloyd Jones | 3,987 | 8.5 | -0.1 | |
| Majority | 1,028 | 2.2 | |||
| Turnout | 47,139 | 81.1 | +3.8 | ||
| Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +6.4 | |||
Elections in the 1990s
| General Election 1992: Clwyd South West[5] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Martyn David Jones | 21,490 | 43.5 | +8.1 | |
| Conservative | Gwilym G.V. Owen | 16,549 | 33.5 | +0.2 | |
| Liberal Democrat | W. Gwyn Williams | 6,027 | 12.2 | -10.7 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Eifion Lloyd Jones | 4,835 | 9.8 | +1.3 | |
| Green | Nigel C. Worth | 351 | 0.7 | N/A | |
| Natural Law | Mrs Jean B. Leadbetter | 155 | 0.3 | N/A | |
| Majority | 4,941 | 10.0 | +7.8 | ||
| Turnout | 49,407 | 81.5 | +0.4 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | +3.9 | |||
See also
Notes and references
- 1 2 "'Clwyd South West', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
- ↑ "Clwyd South West". Vision of Britain. Vision of Britain, University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 2011-01-13.
- ↑ C. Rallings & M. Thrasher, The Media Guide to the New Parliamentary Constituencies, pp.12,205 (Plymouth: LGC Elections Centre, 1995).
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 5)
- ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010.