Aberavon (UK Parliament constituency)
51°36′00″N 3°48′43″W / 51.600°N 3.812°W
Aberavon | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Preserved county | West Glamorgan |
Population | 66,133 (2011 census)[1] |
Electorate | 51,233 (December 2010)[2] |
Major settlements | Port Talbot |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1918 |
Member of Parliament | Stephen Kinnock (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Swansea District and Mid Glamorganshire |
Overlaps | |
Senedd | Aberavon, South Wales West |
Aberavon (Welsh: Aberafan) is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It returns one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system. It is represented by Stephen Kinnock of the Labour Party.
History
The constituency was created for the 1918 general election by a division of the Swansea District. With the exception of the first term, it has always been held by the Labour Party. Ramsay MacDonald, who became Labour's first Prime Minister in 1924, held the seat from 1922 to 1929. Its current MP, Stephen Kinnock, is the son of Neil Kinnock, who was Labour leader and Leader of the Opposition from 1983 to 1992.
It is one of the most consistently safe seats for Labour; since the end of the Second World War, the Labour candidate has always won Aberavon with a majority at least 33%, and with the exception of 2015, the Labour candidate has also always won an overall majority of the vote in the seat. In 2015, Kinnock only won 48.9% of the vote in Aberavon, against a surge in the vote for the UKIP candidate; however, in 2017, Kinnock's voteshare rose by 19.2 percentage points, the biggest increase in the Labour vote in the seat's history, and his majority increased to 50.4%, the highest for an Aberavon MP since 2001. The 2017 result also made Aberavon the safest Labour seat in Wales.
Boundaries
The constituency is in South Wales, situated on the right bank of the River Afan, near its mouth in Swansea Bay. The constituency today includes the wards of Aberavon, Baglan, Briton Ferry East, Briton Ferry West, Bryn and Cwmavon, Coedffranc Central, Coedffranc North, Coedffranc West, Cymmer, Glyncorrwg, Gwynfi, Margam, Port Talbot, Sandfields East, Sandfields West and Tai-bach
1918-1949: The Municipal Borough of Aberavon; the Urban Districts of Briton Ferry, Glencorwg, Margam, and Porthcawl; and part of the Rural Districts of Neath, and Penybont.
1950-1983: The Municipal Borough of Port Talbot; the Urban Districts of Glyncorrwg, and Porthcawl; and part of the Rural District of Penybont.[3]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[4] | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1918 | Jack Edwards | Liberal |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1922 | Rt Hon Ramsay MacDonald | Labour |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1929 | William Cove | Labour |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1959 | Sir John Morris | Labour |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 2001 | Hywel Francis | Labour |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 2015 | Stephen Kinnock | Labour |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Stephen Kinnock | 22,662 | 68.1 | +19.2 | |
Conservative | Sadie Vidal | 5,901 | 17.7 | +5.9 | |
Plaid Cymru | Andrew Bennison | 2,761 | 8.3 | −3.3 | |
UKIP | Caroline Jones | 1,345 | 4.0 | −11.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Cen Phillips | 599 | 1.8 | −2.6 | |
Majority | 16,761 | 50.4 | +17.3 | ||
Turnout | 33,268 | 66.7 | +3.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +6.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Stephen Kinnock | 15,416 | 48.9 | −3.0 | |
UKIP | Peter Bush | 4,971 | 15.8 | +14.2 | |
Conservative | Edward Yi He | 3,742 | 11.9 | −2.4 | |
Plaid Cymru | Duncan Higgitt | 3,663 | 11.6 | +4.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Helen Ceri-Clarke | 1,397 | 4.4 | −11.8 | |
Independent | Captain Beany | 1,137 | 3.6 | +1.8 | |
Green | Jonathan Tier | 711 | 2.3 | n/a | |
Socialist Labour | Andrew Jordan | 352 | 1.1 | n/a | |
TUSC | Owen Herbert | 134 | 0.4 | n/a | |
Majority | 10,445 | 33.1 | −2.6 | ||
Turnout | 31,523 | 63.3 | +2.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −8.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Hywel Francis | 16,073 | 51.9 | −8.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Keith Davies | 5,034 | 16.3 | +2.5 | |
Conservative | Caroline Jones | 4,411 | 14.2 | +4.1 | |
Plaid Cymru | Paul Nicholls-Jones | 2,198 | 7.1 | −4.7 | |
BNP | Kevin Edwards | 1,276 | 4.1 | N/A | |
Independent | Andrew Tutton | 919 | 3.0 | N/A | |
New Millennium Bean Party | Captain Beany | 558 | 1.8 | N/A | |
UKIP | Joe Callan | 489 | 1.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 11,039 | 35.7 | −10.6 | ||
Turnout | 30,958 | 61.0 | +2.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −5.3 |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Hywel Francis | 18,077 | 60.0 | −3.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Claire Waller | 4,140 | 13.8 | +4.0 | |
Plaid Cymru | Philip Evans | 3,545 | 11.8 | +2.1 | |
Conservative | Annunziata Rees-Mogg | 3,064 | 10.2 | +2.6 | |
Veritas | Jim Wright | 768 | 2.6 | N/A | |
Green | Miranda La Vey | 510 | 1.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 13,937 | 46.3 | −7.1 | ||
Turnout | 30,104 | 58.9 | −1.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −3.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Hywel Francis | 19,063 | 63.1 | −8.2 | |
Plaid Cymru | Lisa Turnbull | 2,955 | 9.8 | +4.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Christopher Davies | 2,933 | 9.7 | −1.6 | |
Conservative | Ali Miraj | 2,296 | 7.6 | −0.3 | |
Independent | Andrew Tutton | 1,960 | 6.5 | N/A | |
New Millennium Bean | Captain Beany | 727 | 2.4 | +1.4 | |
Socialist Alliance | Martin Chapman | 256 | 0.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 16,108 | 53.3 | −9.5 | ||
Turnout | 30,190 | 61.0 | −10.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Morris | 25,650 | 71.3 | +4.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ronald McConville | 4,079 | 11.3 | −1.1 | |
Conservative | Peter Harper | 2,835 | 7.9 | −5.9 | |
Plaid Cymru | Philip Cockwell | 2,088 | 5.8 | +1.0 | |
Referendum | Peter David | 970 | 2.7 | N/A | |
Independent | Captain Beany | 341 | 1.0 | −0.8 | |
Majority | 21,571 | 62.8 | +9.6 | ||
Turnout | 35,963 | 71.9 | −5.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Morris | 26,877 | 67.1 | +0.3 | |
Conservative | Hywel Williams | 5,567 | 13.9 | −0.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Marilyn Harris | 4,999 | 12.5 | −3.6 | |
Plaid Cymru | David W.J. Saunders | 1,919 | 4.8 | +2.0 | |
Real Bean | Captain Beany | 707 | 1.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 21,310 | 53.2 | +2.5 | ||
Turnout | 40,069 | 77.6 | −0.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.4 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Morris | 27,126 | 66.8 | +8.0 | |
Liberal | Marilyn Harris | 6,517 | 16.0 | −4.3 | |
Conservative | Paul Warwick | 5,861 | 14.4 | −1.9 | |
Plaid Cymru | Anne Howells | 1,124 | 2.8 | −1.8 | |
Majority | 20,609 | 50.7 | +12.3 | ||
Turnout | 40,628 | 77.7 | +2.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Morris | 23,745 | 58.75 | −2.9 | |
Liberal | Sheila M. Cutts | 8,206 | 20.30 | +11.3 | |
Conservative | G.N.A. Bailey | 6,605 | 16.3 | −8.4 | |
Plaid Cymru | A.G. Phillips | 1,859 | 4.6 | +0.8 | |
Majority | 15,539 | 38.45 | +1.5 | ||
Turnout | 40,415 | 75.62 | −3.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Morris | 31,665 | 61.7 | −1.1 | |
Conservative | F. McCarthy | 12,692 | 24.7 | +7.9 | |
Liberal | Sheila M. Cutts | 4,624 | 9.0 | −2.0 | |
Plaid Cymru | Geraint Thomas | 1,954 | 3.8 | −4.7 | |
Communist | G. Rowden | 406 | 0.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 18,973 | 37.0 | −9.1 | ||
Turnout | 47,179 | 79.2 | +6.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Morris | 29,683 | 62.82 | −2.4 | |
Conservative | N K Hammond | 7,931 | 16.78 | −5.8 | |
Liberal | Sheila M. Cutts | 5,178 | 10.96 | N/A | |
Plaid Cymru | Geraint Thomas | 4,032 | 8.53 | −3.6 | |
Workers Revolutionary | J. Bevan | 427 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 21,752 | 46.04 | +3.4 | ||
Turnout | 47,251 | 73.07 | −2.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Morris | 31,656 | 65.24 | −1.8 | |
Conservative | Peter Hubbard-Miles | 10,968 | 22.60 | +0.3 | |
Plaid Cymru | DG Foster | 5,898 | 12.2 | +3.8 | |
Majority | 20,688 | 42.64 | −2.1 | ||
Turnout | 48,522 | 75.62 | +0.84 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Morris | 31,314 | 66.99 | −8.45 | |
Conservative | Ian Grist | 10,419 | 22.29 | +1.35 | |
Plaid Cymru | Graham Farmer | 3,912 | 8.37 | N/A | |
Communist | Julian Tudor Hart | 1,102 | 2.36 | −1.26 | |
Majority | 20,895 | 44.70 | −9.81 | ||
Turnout | 46,747 | 74.78 | −3.49 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Morris | 33,763 | 75.44 | +3.33 | |
Conservative | Robert Hicks | 9,369 | 20.94 | +0.41 | |
Communist | Julian Tudor Hart | 1,620 | 3.62 | +0.88 | |
Majority | 24,394 | 54.51 | +2.93 | ||
Turnout | 45,146 | 78.27 | −2.58 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Morris | 33,103 | 72.11 | +6.35 | |
Conservative | John Stradling Thomas | 9,424 | 20.53 | −7.07 | |
Plaid Cymru | Glyn John | 2,118 | 4.61 | −2.02 | |
Communist | Julian Tudor Hart | 1,260 | 2.74 | N/A | |
Majority | 23,679 | 51.58 | +13.42 | ||
Turnout | 45,905 | 80.85 | −1.23 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Morris | 30,397 | 65.76 | −3.78 | |
Conservative | Geoffrey Howe | 12,759 | 27.60 | −2.86 | |
Plaid Cymru | Iixtyd M Lewis | 3,066 | 6.63 | N/A | |
Majority | 17,638 | 38.16 | −0.91 | ||
Turnout | 46,222 | 82.08 | +2.81 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | William Cove | 29,003 | 69.54 | −2.43 | |
Conservative | Geoffrey Howe | 12,706 | 30.46 | +2.43 | |
Majority | 16,297 | 39.07 | −4.87 | ||
Turnout | 41,709 | 79.27 | −5.36 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −2.43 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | William Cove | 30,498 | 71.97 | +3.29 | |
Conservative | John Loveridge | 11,878 | 28.03 | +9.05 | |
Majority | 18,620 | 43.94 | −5.76 | ||
Turnout | 42,376 | 84.63 | −1.21 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | William Cove | 29,278 | 68.68 | −3.83 | |
National Liberal | Auberon Herbert | 8,091 | 18.98 | −8.51 | |
Liberal | Maldwyn Thomas | 5,263 | 12.35 | N/A | |
Majority | 21,187 | 49.70 | +4.68 | ||
Turnout | 42,634 | 85.84 | +6.42 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | William Cove | 31,286 | 72.51 | ||
Conservative | David Llewellyn | 11,860 | 27.49 | ||
Majority | 19,426 | 45.02 | |||
Turnout | 43,146 | 79.42 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | William Cove | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Labour hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | William Cove | 23,029 | 58.4 | +2.5 | |
Liberal | Edward Curran | 16,378 | 41.6 | +8.4 | |
Majority | 6,651 | 16.9 | |||
Turnout | 84.4 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | -3.0 |
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | William Cove | 22,194 | 55.9 | +2.8 | |
Liberal | William Henry Williams | 13,155 | 33.2 | −13.7 | |
Unionist | Francis Bertram Reece | 4,330 | 10.9 | n/a | |
Majority | 9,039 | 22.7 | +16.5 | ||
Turnout | 87.0 | −2.6 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +8.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ramsay MacDonald | 17,724 | 53.1 | ||
Liberal | William Henry Williams | 15,624 | 46.9 | ||
Majority | 2,100 | 6.2 | |||
Turnout | 89.6 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ramsay MacDonald | 17,439 | 55.6 | +9.0 | |
Unionist | Sidney Hutchinson Byass | 13,927 | 44.4 | +8.3 | |
Majority | 3,512 | 11.2 | +0.7 | ||
Turnout | 87.2 | +1.4 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ramsay MacDonald | 14,318 | 46.6 | +10.9 | |
Unionist | Sidney Hutchinson Byass | 11,111 | 36.1 | n/a | |
National Liberal | John Edwards | 5,238 | 17.3 | −45.5 | |
Majority | 3,207 | 10.5 | −16.5 | ||
Turnout | 88.6 | ||||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing | +28.2 |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
C | Liberal | Jack Edwards | 13,635 | 62.8 | n/a |
Labour | Robert Williams | 7,758 | 35.7 | n/a | |
NFDDSS | T.G. Jones | 324 | 1.5 | n/a | |
Majority | 5,877 | 27.1 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 21,697 | 71.4 | n/a | ||
Liberal win (new seat) | |||||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
- Jones withdrew in favour of Edwards on 13 Dec 1918
See also
Notes and references
- ^ "Usual Resident Population, 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
- ^ "Beyond 20/20 WDS - Table view". 2011 Electorate Figures. StatsWales. 1 December 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ^ Craig, F.W.S., ed. (1972). Boundaries of parliamentary constituencies 1985-1972. Chichester, Sussex: Political Reference Publications. ISBN 0-900178-09-4.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "A" (part 1)
- ^ Notices Neath Port Talbot Council
- ^ "Aberavon Parliamentary constituency". Election 2017 Results. BBC. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
- ^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
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- ^ "Aberavon Parliamentary constituency". Election 2015 Results. BBC. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
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- ^ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
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- ^ C. Rallings & M. Thrasher, The Media Guide to the New Parliamentary Constituencies, p.120 (Plymouth: LGC Elections Centre, 1995)
- ^ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
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- ^ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
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- ^ a b c d e f g British parliamentary election results, 1918–1949, Fred W. S. Craig
Further reading
- Richard Kimber (2008). "UK General Elections since 1832 UK General Elections since 1832". psr.keele.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 9 June 2008. Retrieved 23 June 2008.
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