Wrexham (UK Parliament constituency)
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Not to be confused with Wrexham (Assembly constituency).
| Wrexham | |
|---|---|
| County constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
 Boundary of Wrexham in Wales. |
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| Preserved county | Clwyd |
| Electorate | 53,733 (December 2010)[1] |
| Major settlements | Wrexham |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1918 |
| Member of Parliament | Ian Lucas (Labour) |
| Number of members | One |
| Created from | Denbigh Boroughs and East Denbighshire |
| Overlaps | |
| Welsh Assembly | North Wales |
| European Parliament constituency | Wales |
Wrexham (Welsh: Wrecsam) is a parliamentary constituency in North Wales which is represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election.
The Wrexham Welsh Assembly constituency was created with the same boundaries in 1999.
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[edit] History
Until 1885, Wrexham was part of the Denbighshire parliamentary constituency, which elected one Member of Parliament until the Reform Act 1832 increased this to two members. In 1885 the Denbighshire constituency was split and Wrexham became part of the new East Denbighshire constituency.
In 1918 the Wrexham constituency was created, electing one Member of Parliament. For the 1983 general election, major boundary reorganisation saw large areas removed from the Wrexham constituency to form the new constituency of Clwyd South West (later to become Clwyd South).
[edit] Boundaries
The constituency of Wrexham is divided into the electoral divisions: Acton, Borras Park, Brynyffynnon, Cartrefle, Erddig, Garden Village, Gresford East and West, Grosvenor, Gwersyllt East and South, Gwersyllt North, Gwersyllt West, Hermitage, Holt, Little Acton, Llay, Maesydre, Marford and Hoseley, Offa, Queensway, Rhosnesni, Rossett, Smithfield, Stansty, Whitegate, Wynnstay
[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] Elections
[edit] Elections in the 2010s
| General Election 2010: Wrexham [3] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Ian Lucas | 12,161 | 36.9 | -9.2 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Tom Rippeth | 8,503 | 25.8 | +2.2 | |
| Conservative | Gareth Hughes | 8,375 | 25.4 | +5.4 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Arfon Jones | 2,029 | 6.2 | +0.4 | |
| BNP | Mel Roberts | 1,134 | 3.4 | +0.4 | |
| UKIP | John Humberstone | 774 | 2.3 | +2.3 | |
| Majority | 3,658 | 11.1 | |||
| Turnout | 32,976 | 64.8 | +1.5 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -5.7 | |||
[edit] Elections in the 2000s
| General Election 2005: Wrexham[4] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Ian Lucas | 13,993 | 46.1 | −6.9 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Tom Rippeth | 7,174 | 23.6 | +6.5 | |
| Conservative | Therese Coffey | 6,079 | 20.0 | −2.5 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Sion Owen | 1,744 | 5.7 | −0.2 | |
| BNP | John Walker | 919 | 3.0 | N/A | |
| Forward Wales | Janet Williams | 476 | 1.6 | N/A | |
| Majority | 6,819 | 22.4 | −8.1 | ||
| Turnout | 30,385 | 63.3 | +3.8 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | −6.7 | |||
| General Election 2001: Wrexham[5] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Ian Lucas | 15,934 | 53.0 | −3.1 | |
| Conservative | Felicity Elphick | 6,746 | 22.5 | −1.4 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Ron Davies | 5,153 | 17.1 | +3.9 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Malcolm Evans | 1,783 | 5.9 | +2.7 | |
| UKIP | Jane Brookes | 432 | 1.4 | N/A | |
| Majority | 9,188 | 30.5 | |||
| Turnout | 30,048 | 59.5 | −12.2 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
[edit] Elections in the 1990s
| General Election 1997: Wrexham[6][7][8][9] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Dr John Marek | 20,450 | 56.1 | +6.1 | |
| Conservative | Stuart Andrew | 8,688 | 23.9 | −8.5 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Andrew Thomas | 4,833 | 13.3 | −1.7; | |
| Referendum Party | John Cronk | 1,195 | 3.3 | N/A | |
| Plaid Cymru | Kevin Plant | 1,170 | 3.2 | +0.5 | |
| Natural Law | Nicholas Low | 86 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| Majority | 11,622 | 32.3 | +14.8 | ||
| Turnout | 36,422 | 71.8 | |||
| Labour hold | Swing | +7.4 | |||
| General Election 1992: Wrexham[10] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Dr John Marek | 24,830 | 48.3 | +4.4 | |
| Conservative | Owen Paterson | 18,114 | 35.2 | −0.4 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Andrew M. Thomas | 7,074 | 13.8 | −5.7 | |
| Plaid Cymru | W. Gareth Wheatley | 1,415 | 2.8 | +1.7 | |
| Majority | 6,716 | 13.1 | +4.8 | ||
| Turnout | 51,433 | 80.7 | −0.2 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | +2.4 | |||
[edit] Elections in the 1950s
| By-election 1955: Wrexham[11] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | James Idwal Jones | 23,402 | 57.9 | −3.7 | |
| Conservative | Guthrie W.G Jones | 12,476 | 30.8 | −4.0 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Dafydd Elystan Morgan | 4,572 | 11.3 | N/A | |
| Majority | 10,926 | 27.0 | +0.3 | ||
| Turnout | 46,072 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
[edit] See also
- Wrexham (National Assembly for Wales constituency)
- List of Parliamentary constituencies in Clwyd
- Wrexham by-election, 1955
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ "Beyond 20/20 WDS - Table view". 2011 Electorate Figures. StatsWales. 1 December 2010. http://www.statswales.wales.gov.uk/TableViewer/tableView.aspx?ReportId=14666. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5)
- ^ "BBC NEWS - Election 2010 - Wrexham". BBC News Online. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/constituency/w04.stm. Retrieved 2010-05-07.
- ^ "Wrexham: Constituency > Politics > guardian.co.uk". Election 2010. The Guardian. 2005-05-05. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/constituency/1457/wrexham. Retrieved 2011-01-22.
- ^ "BBC NEWS > VOTE 2001 > RESULTS & CONSTITUENCIES > Wrexham". Vote 2001. BBC News. 7 June 2001. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/vote2001/results_constituencies/constituencies/652.stm. Retrieved 2011-01-22.
- ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1997. Politics Resources. 1 May 1997. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/constit/541.htm. Retrieved 2011-01-07.
- ^ C. Rallings & M. Thrasher, The Media Guide to the New Parliamentary Constituencies, p.181 (Plymouth: LGC Elections Centre, 1995)
- ^ The 1997 election result is calculated relative to the notional, not the actual, 1992 result.
- ^ "BBC NEWS>VOTE 2001>Results and Constituencies>Wrexham". Vote 2001. BBC News. 1 May 1997. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/vote2001/results_constituencies/constituencies/652.stm. Retrieved 2011-01-12.
- ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/ge92index.htm. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
- ^ "British parliamentary by-elections: Wrexham 1955". Web Cite. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/by_elections/55a.html%23wrexham&date=2009-10-25+16:45:27. Retrieved 2011-01-16.
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