Vale of Clwyd (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1997 onwards / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 2019 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.
Vale of Clwyd | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Preserved county | Clwyd |
Electorate | 55,925 (December 2018)[1] |
Major settlements | Rhyl, Prestatyn, Denbigh, St Asaph, Rhuddlan, Trefnant, Tremeirchion, Bodelwyddan. |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of Parliament | James Davies (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Clwyd North West, Delyn, Clwyd South West |
Overlaps | |
Senedd | Vale of Clwyd, North Wales |
The Vale of Clwyd Senedd constituency was created with the same boundaries in 1999 (as an Assembly constituency).
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. Its wards is to be split between Clwyd East and Clwyd North.[2]