Vale of Clwyd | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of Vale of Clwyd in Wales.
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Preserved county | Clwyd |
Electorate | 56,585 (December 2010) |
Major settlements | Rhyl, Prestatyn, Denbigh |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of parliament | James Davies (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Clwyd North West, Delyn, Clwyd South West |
Overlaps | |
Welsh Assembly | North Wales |
European Parliament constituency | Wales |
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.
The Vale of Clwyd Welsh Assembly constituency was created with the same boundaries in 1999.
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:
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.