Clwyd South West (Welsh: De-orllewin Clwyd) was a county constituency in Clwyd, North Wales. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by the first past the post system of election.
| Clwyd South West | |
|---|---|
| Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
| Preserved county | Clwyd |
| Major settlements | Denbigh, Llangollen, Rhosllanerchrugog, Ruthin |
| 1983–1997 | |
| Seats | One |
| Created from | Denbigh, Wrexham and Merioneth[1] |
| Replaced by | Clwyd South, Clwyd West and Vale of Clwyd[1] |
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 edit
This was a constituency of a varied nature, being made up of former mining villages close to Wrexham (such as Rhosllannerchrugog), the towns of Denbigh, Llangollen, and Ruthin, and a large area of sparsely populated countryside.[2] The seat was abolished and split into three new constituencies on the recommendation of the Boundary Commission for Wales to create an extra seat in Clwyd for the 1997 general election.[3]
Members of Parliament edit
| 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 edit
Elections in the 1980s edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Robert Harvey | 14,575 | 33.8 | ||
| SDP | Tom Ellis | 13,024 | 30.2 | ||
| Labour | Dennis Carter | 11,829 | 27.4 | ||
| Plaid Cymru | Antoni Schiavone | 3,684 | 8.6 | ||
| Majority | 1,551 | 3.6 | |||
| Turnout | 43,112 | 77.3 | |||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Martyn Jones | 16,701 | 35.4 | +8.0 | |
| Conservative | Robert Harvey | 15,673 | 33.2 | ―0.6 | |
| SDP | Tom Ellis | 10,778 | 22.9 | ―7.3 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Eifion Lloyd Jones | 3,987 | 8.5 | ―0.1 | |
| Majority | 1,028 | 2.2 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 47,139 | 81.1 | +3.8 | ||
| Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +6.4 | |||
Elections in the 1990s edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Martyn Jones | 21,490 | 43.5 | +8.1 | |
| Conservative | Gwilym G.V. Owen | 16,549 | 33.5 | +0.3 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 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 | New | |
| Natural Law | Jean B. Leadbetter | 155 | 0.3 | New | |
| Majority | 4,941 | 10.0 | +7.8 | ||
| Turnout | 49,407 | 81.5 | +0.4 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | +3.9 | |||
See also edit
Notes and references edit
- ^ a b "'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 13 January 2011.
- ^ 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)
- ^ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2010.