Aberconwy | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Preserved county | Clwyd |
Electorate | 44,444 (December 2018) [1] |
Major settlements | Llandudno, Conwy, Llandudno Junction |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2010 |
Member of Parliament | Robin Millar (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Conwy and Meirionnydd Nant Conwy |
Overlaps | |
Senedd | Aberconwy, North Wales |
Aberconwy is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Robin Millar, a Conservative. [n 2]
The seat was created by the Welsh Boundary Commission for the 2010 general election, and replaced the old north Wales seat of Conwy. The same boundaries have been used for the Aberconwy Senedd constituency since the 2007 Welsh Assembly election.
The constituency is set to be abolished, as part of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies and under the June 2023 final recommendations of the Boundary Commission for Wales for the 2024 United Kingdom general election. The entire constituency would be part of Bangor Aberconwy. [2]
The constituency is a new creation of the Boundary Commission for Wales and was based on the existing Conwy seat. It is centred on Llandudno, Conwy town and associated suburbs such as Deganwy and Penrhyn Bay, along with the Conwy Valley. The other main component of the former Conwy seat, Bangor, is removed to the new Arfon constituency.
The name Aberconwy was chosen partly to avoid confusion between the former Conwy parliamentary seat (which, confusingly, had been the name first proposed by the commission for the new seat), the existing county borough, town council and ward name. The seat is exactly co-terminous with the old Aberconwy district, abolished in 1996, and thus the name was thought to be a natural one with which to name the new constituency. Bangor, the main Labour voting area of the former Conwy constituency, is no longer within the constituency, whereas the more Conservative areas such as Llandudno and Conwy itself are retained. The constituency is diverse, combining Welsh-speaking rural areas, English-speaking coastal dwellers, many affluent suburbs, pockets of relative poverty, seaside resorts such as Llandudno and more industrial areas such as Llandudno Junction. In many ways the new Aberconwy seat resembles its neighbour Clwyd West (the other seat covering Conwy County Borough) to a large degree, as both seats have a similar social profile and, as seems likely, a similar voting pattern.
The wards of Conwy County Borough that were incorporated into the new Aberconwy seat are:
Election | Member [3] | Party | |
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2010 | Guto Bebb | Conservative | |
2019 | Independent | ||
2019 | Robin Millar | Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Guto Bebb | 10,734 | 35.8 | N/A | |
Labour | Ronnie Hughes | 7,336 | 24.5 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Mike Priestley | 5,786 | 19.3 | N/A | |
Plaid Cymru | Phil Edwards | 5,341 | 17.8 | N/A | |
UKIP | Mike Wieteska | 632 | 2.1 | N/A | |
Christian | Louise Wynne Jones | 137 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,398 | 11.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 29,966 | 67.2 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 44,593 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Of the 69 rejected ballots:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Guto Bebb | 12,513 | 41.5 | +5.7 | |
Labour | Mary Wimbury | 8,514 | 28.2 | +3.7 | |
Plaid Cymru | Dafydd Meurig | 3,536 | 11.7 | −6.1 | |
UKIP | Andrew Haigh | 3,467 | 11.5 | +9.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Victor Babu [9] | 1,391 | 4.6 | −14.7 | |
Green | Petra Haig [10] | 727 | 2.4 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 59 | ||||
Majority | 3,999 | 13.3 | +2.0 | ||
Turnout | 30,148 | 66.2 | −1.0 | ||
Registered electors | 45,525 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.0 | |||
Of the 59 rejected ballots:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Guto Bebb | 14,337 | 44.6 | +3.1 | |
Labour | Emily Owen | 13,702 | 42.6 | +14.4 | |
Plaid Cymru | Wyn Elis Jones | 3,170 | 9.9 | −1.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sarah Leister-Burgess | 941 | 2.9 | −1.7 | |
Rejected ballots | 78 | ||||
Majority | 635 | 2.0 | −11.3 | ||
Turnout | 32,150 | 71.0 | +4.8 | ||
Registered electors | 45,251 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −5.7 | |||
Of the 78 rejected ballots:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Robin Millar | 14,687 | 46.1 | +1.5 | |
Labour | Emily Owen | 12,653 | 39.7 | −2.9 | |
Plaid Cymru | Lisa Goodier | 2,704 | 8.5 | −1.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jason Edwards | 1,821 | 5.7 | +2.8 | |
Rejected ballots | 123 | ||||
Majority | 2,034 | 6.4 | +4.4 | ||
Turnout | 31,865 | 71.3 | +0.3 | ||
Registered electors | 44,699 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.2 | |||
Of the 123 rejected ballots:
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