Torfaen (UK Parliament constituency)
51°41′46″N 3°03′47″W / 51.696°N 3.063°W
Torfaen | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Preserved county | Gwent |
Electorate | 61,806 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Cwmbran, Pontypool, Blaenavon |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Pontypool |
Overlaps | |
Senedd | South Wales East |
Torfaen is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It returns one Member of Parliament (MP), elected by the first past the post system.
Boundaries
The area is a Labour Party stronghold with a majority of around 9,000, with the community of New Inn the only strong Conservative area. It voted Labour even amidst the huge Conservative majorities of 1983 and 1987. The area covers the new town of Cwmbran, Pontypool and its surrounding districts and stretches as far north as Blaenavon.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[2] | Party | |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1983 | Leo Abse | Labour |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1987 | Paul Peter Murphy | Labour |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 2015 | Nick Thomas-Symonds | Labour |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Nick Thomas-Symonds | 16,938 | 44.6 | −0.2 | |
Conservative | Graham Smith | 8,769 | 23.1 | +3.1 | |
UKIP | Ken Beswick | 7,203 | 19.0 | +16.7 | |
Plaid Cymru | Boydd Hackley-Green | 2,169 | 5.7 | +0.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alison Willott | 1,271 | 3.4 | −13.2 | |
Green | Matt Cooke[5] | 746 | 2.0 | +0.8 | |
Socialist Labour | John Cox | 697 | 1.8 | N/A | |
Communist | Mark Griffiths | 144 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,169 | 21.5 | −3.2 | ||
Turnout | 37,937 | 61.3 | -0.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −1.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Paul Peter Murphy | 16,847 | 44.8 | −12.1 | |
Conservative | Jonathan H. Burns | 7,541 | 20.0 | +4.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | David P. Morgan | 6,264 | 16.6 | +0.9 | |
Plaid Cymru | Rhys G. ab Elis | 2,005 | 5.3 | −0.9 | |
BNP | Jennifer Noble | 1,657 | 4.4 | N/A | |
Independent | Fred Wildgust | 1,419 | 3.8 | +3.8 | |
UKIP | Gareth Dunn | 862 | 2.3 | −0.9 | |
Independent | Richard Jeffries Turner-Thomas | 607 | 1.6 | −0.5 | |
Green | Owen Clarke | 438 | 1.2 | +1.2 | |
Majority | 9,306 | 24.7 | |||
Turnout | 37,640 | 61.5 | +2.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −8.2 |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Paul Peter Murphy | 20,472 | 56.9 | −5.2 | |
Conservative | Nick Ramsay | 5,681 | 15.8 | −0.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Veronica Kathleen Watkins | 5,678 | 15.8 | +4.6 | |
Plaid Cymru | Aneurin Jason Marsden Preece | 2,242 | 6.2 | −1.5 | |
UKIP | David John Rowlands | 1,145 | 3.2 | +1.3 | |
Independent | Richard Jeffries Turner-Thomas | 761 | 2.1 | +2.1 | |
Majority | 14,791 | 41.1 | |||
Turnout | 35,979 | 59.3 | +1.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −2.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Paul Peter Murphy | 21,883 | 62.1 | −7.0 | |
Conservative | Jason Philip Evans | 5,603 | 15.9 | +3.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alan Masters | 3,936 | 11.2 | −1.0 | |
Plaid Cymru | Stephen Paul Smith | 2,720 | 7.7 | +5.3 | |
UKIP | Brenda Muriel Vipass | 657 | 1.9 | N/A | |
Socialist Alliance | Stephen Bell | 443 | 1.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 16,280 | 46.2 | |||
Turnout | 35,242 | 57.7 | −14.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Paul Peter Murphy | 29,863 | 69.1 | +5.0 | |
Conservative | Neil Parish | 5,327 | 12.3 | −8.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jean Elizabeth Gray | 5,249 | 12.1 | −1.0 | |
Referendum | Deborah Jayne Holler | 1,245 | 2.9 | N/A | |
Plaid Cymru | Robert William Gough | 1,042 | 2.4 | −0.2 | |
Green | Roger William Coghill | 519 | 1.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 24,536 | 56.7 | |||
Turnout | 43,245 | 71.7 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +6.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Paul Peter Murphy | 30,352 | 64.1 | +5.4 | |
Conservative | Mark Christopher Watkins | 9,598 | 20.3 | +1.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Malcolm George Hewson | 6,178 | 13.1 | −6.9 | |
Plaid Cymru (Green) | John Idris Cox | 1,210 | 2.6 | +2.6 | |
Majority | 20,754 | 43.8 | +5.1 | ||
Turnout | 47,338 | 77.5 | +1.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.1 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Paul Peter Murphy | 26,577 | 58.7 | +11.4 | |
Liberal | Graham Robert Blackburn | 9,027 | 19.9 | −8.4 | |
Conservative | Robert Ian Neilson Gordon | 8,632 | 19.1 | −3.2 | |
Plaid Cymru | Jill Evans | 577 | 1.2 | −0.9 | |
Green | Melvin John Witherden | 450 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 17,550 | 38.8 | |||
Turnout | 45,263 | 75.6 | +1.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +9.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Leo Abse | 20,678 | 47.3 | N/A | |
Liberal | Graham Robert Blackburn | 12,393 | 28.3 | N/A | |
Conservative | Peter John Martin | 9,751 | 22.3 | N/A | |
Plaid Cymru | Phyllis Mary Rose Cox | 896 | 2.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,285 | 19.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 43,718 | 74.4 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) |
See also
Notes and references
- ^ "Beyond 20/20 WDS - Table view". 2011 Electorate Figures. StatsWales. 1 December 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)
- ^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ "May 2015 Election Result" (PDF). Declaration of the result of the poll. Torfaen County Borough Council. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
- ^ http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/11563245.Greens_announce_candidate_for_Torfaen/
- ^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
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