Preserved county Clwyd Created 1997 Member of parliament Susan Jones Welsh assembly North Wales | Electorate 54,895 (December 2010) European Parliament constituency Wales Number of members 1 Replaced by Clwyd South West, Wrexham | |
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Created from Clwyd South West, Wrexham Major settlements Ruabon, Rhosllannerchrugog, Llangollen | ||
Clwyd South (De Clwyd in Welsh) is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster). The constituency was created in 1997, and it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post method of election.
The Clwyd South Welsh Assembly constituency was created with the same boundaries in 1999.
Boundaries
The constituency straddles the authorities of Denbighshire and Wrexham. Main population centres includes the Wrexham suburbs of Ruabon, Chirk, Rhosllannerchrugog, Cefn Mawr and Coedpoeth, and Llangollen and Corwen further up the Dee valley to the west. Until the 2010 election, the constituency used to include a small part of the preserved county of Powys. This anomaly was resolved by the Boundary Commission for Wales with the boundaries first used in 2010.
However, under constituency changes announced in September 2016 by the Boundary Commission, it is proposed that for the next general election the northern part of the Montgomeryshire constituency area of Powys including Welshpool be merged with this seat to form a new seat, named South Clwyd and North Montgomeryshire.