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Vale of Clwyd (UK Parliament constituency)

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Preserved county
  
Clwyd

Member of parliament
  
James Davies

Welsh assembly
  
North Wales

Major settlements
  
Rhyl, Prestatyn, Denbigh

European Parliament constituency
  
Wales

Number of members
  
1

Electorate
  
56,585 (December 2010)

Vale of Clwyd (UK Parliament constituency)

Replaced by
  
Clwyd North West, Delyn, Clwyd South West

Created from
  
Clwyd North West, Delyn, Clwyd South West

The Vale of Clwyd (Welsh: Dyffryn Clwyd) is a constituency of the House of Commons of the UK Parliament created in 1997 and represented since 2015 by James Davies of the Conservative Party. As with all extant seats its electorate elect one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system at least every five years.

Contents

The Vale of Clwyd Welsh Assembly constituency was created with the same boundaries in 1999.

Boundaries

The constituency was created in 1997 from the seats of Clwyd North West, Clwyd South West and Delyn. It is in north Wales containing seaside towns Rhyl and Prestatyn and inland towns Denbigh and St. Asaph.

In the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which reported in time for the 2010 general election, the Boundary Commission for Wales formed Vale of Clwyd from the following electoral wards:

  • Bodelwyddan, Denbigh Central, Denbigh Lower, Denbigh Lower Eastern Central, Denbigh Upper/Henllan, Dyserth, Llandyrnog, Prestatyn Central, Prestatyn East, Prestatyn Meliden,Prestatyn North, Prestatyn South West, Rhuddlan, Rhyl East, Rhyl South, Rhyl South East, Rhyl South West, Rhyl West, St. Asaph East, St. Asaph West, Trefnant and Tremeirchion
  • Political history

    The seat was won by the Labour candidate in 1997, 2001, 2005 and on a marginal majority in 2010. The seat was next won by the Conservative candidate standing in 2015. The 2015 result gave the seat the 4th most marginal majority of the Conservative Party's 331 seats by percentage of majority.

    References

    Vale of Clwyd (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia