Created 1536 Member of parliament Albert Owen Preserved county Gwynedd European Parliament constituency Wales | Welsh Assembly Ynys Môn, North Wales Number of members 1 Electorate 49,721 (December 2010) Welsh assemblies Ynys Môn, North Wales | |
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Major settlements Holyhead, Llangefni, Beaumaris | ||
Ynys Môn ([ˌənɨs ˈmoːn]; officially called Anglesey until 1983) is a constituency of 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.
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The Ynys Môn Welsh Assembly constituency was created with the same boundaries in 1999.
History
The Laws in Wales Act 1535 (26 Hen. VIII, c. 26) provided for a single county seat in the House of Commons for each of twelve historic Welsh counties (including Anglesey) and two for Monmouthshire. Using the modern year, starting on 1 January, these parliamentary constituencies were authorised in 1536.
The Act contains the following provision, which had the effect of enfranchising the shire of Anglesey:
And that for this present Parliament, and all other Parliaments to be holden and kept for this Realm, one Knight shall be chosen and elected to the same Parliaments for every of the Shires of Brecknock, Radnor, Mountgomery and Denbigh, and for every other Shire within the said Country of Dominion of Wales;
The earliest known results are a fragment of the 1541 returns, in which the name of the Knight of the Shire for Anglesey (as Members of Parliament from county constituencies were known before the 19th century) has been lost. It is not known if Anglesey was represented in the parliaments of 1536 and 1539.
The borough constituency of Newborough, soon renamed Beaumaris, returned a member of parliament for the boroughs of Anglesey. It was abolished in 1885, leaving only the county constituency of Anglesey. The official name of the constituency in English was Anglesey, until it was replaced by the Welsh name Ynys Môn. Parliament approved the change, to take effect from the 1983 general election. This was purely an alteration of the official name, as no boundary changes were involved.
Boundaries
Geographically, the constituency of Ynys Môn comprises the whole of the main island of Anglesey and the smaller Holy Island.
MPs after 1640
Short Parliament
Long Parliament
Anglesey was unrepresented in Barebone's Parliament
First Protectorate Parliament
Second Protectorate Parliament
Third Protectorate Parliament
Elections in the 1910s
Elections in the 1900s
At a by-election in 1907, Ellis Jones Griffith was re-elected unopposed.