| Wrexham County constituency |
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| Wrexham shown within Wales | |
| Created: | 1918 |
| MP: | Ian Lucas |
| Party: | Labour |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Preserved county: | Clwyd |
| EP constituency: | Wales |
Wrexham is a constituency in Wales 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.
The Wrexham Welsh Assembly constituency was created with the same boundaries in 1999.
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History
Until 1885, Wrexham was part of the Denbighshire parliamentary constituency, which elected one Member of Parliament until the Reform Act 1832 increased this to two members. In 1885 the Denbighshire constituency was split and Wrexham became part of the new East Denbighshire constituency.
In 1918 the Wrexham constituency was created, electing one Member of Parliament. For the 1983 general election, major boundary reorganisation saw large areas removed from the Wrexham constituency to form the new constituency of Clwyd South West (later to become Clwyd South).
Boundaries
The constituency of Wrexham is divided into the electoral divisions: Acton, Borras Park, Brynyffynnon, Cartrefle, Erddig, Garden Village, Gresford East and West, Grosvenor, Gwersyllt East and South, Gwersyllt North, Gwersyllt West, Hermitage, Holt, Little Acton, Llay, Maesydre, Marford and Hoseley, Offa, Queensway, Rhosnesni, Rossett, Smithfield, Stansty, Whitegate, Wynnstay
Members of Parliament
Election results
Elections in the 2000s
| Confirmed candidates for the next UK general election [1] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Gareth Hughes | ||||
| Plaid Cymru | Arfon Jones | ||||
| Labour | Ian Lucas | ||||
| Liberal Democrat | Tom Rippeth | ||||
| BNP | Ennys Hughes | ||||
| General Election 2005: Wrexham | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Ian Lucas | 13,993 | 46.1 | -6.9 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Tom Rippeth | 7,174 | 23.6 | +6.5 | |
| Conservative | Therese Coffey | 6,079 | 20.0 | -2.5 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Sion Owen | 1,744 | 5.7 | -0.2 | |
| BNP | John Walker | 919 | 3.0 | N/A | |
| Forward Wales | Janet Williams | 476 | 1.6 | N/A | |
| Majority | 6,819 | 22.4 | |||
| Turnout | 30,385 | 63.3 | +3.8 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -6.7 | |||
| General Election 2001: Wrexham | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Ian Lucas | 15,934 | 53.0 | -3.1 | |
| Conservative | Felicity Elphick | 6,746 | 22.5 | -1.4 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Ron Davies | 5,153 | 17.1 | +3.9 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Malcolm Evans | 1,783 | 5.9 | +2.7 | |
| UKIP | Jane Brookes | 432 | 1.4 | N/A | |
| Majority | 9,188 | 30.5 | |||
| Turnout | 30,048 | 59.5 | -12.2 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1950s
| By-election 1955: Wrexham | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | James Idwal Jones | 23,402 | 57.9 | −3.7 | |
| Conservative | G.W.G Jones | 12,476 | 30.8 | −4.0 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Daffydd Elystan Morgan | 4,572 | 11.3 | N/A | |
| Majority | 10,926 | 27.0 | +0.3 | ||
| Turnout | 46,072 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
See also
- Wrexham (National Assembly for Wales constituency)
- List of Parliamentary constituencies in Clwyd
- Wrexham by-election, 1955
References
- British parliamentary by-elections: Wrexham 1955
- UK General Election results October 1951: Wrexham
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
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