Ynys Môn

Coordinates: 53°15′54″N 4°21′47″W / 53.265°N 4.363°W / 53.265; -4.363

Ynys Môn County constituency
Ynys Môn shown within Wales
Created:	1545
MP:	Albert Owen
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
Preserved county:	Gwynedd
EP constituency:	Wales

Ynys Môn (Welsh pronunciation: [ˌənɨs ˈmoːn]; called Anglesey until 1983 in English) 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.

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. In practice, the first known Knights of the Shire from Wales (as Members of Parliament from county constituencies were known before the nineteenth century) were perhaps not elected until 1545.

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 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 United Kingdom general election, 1983. 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.

Members of Parliament

• 1326–1327: Howel ap Griffuyth
• 1326–1327: David ap Howel
• 1326–1327: Tudur Duy
• 1326–1327: Tudur ap Lewelyn
• 1326–1327: Lewelyn Vaghan
• 1326–1327: Howel ap Tudur

not represented in Parliament until 1541

• 1541: Name lost
• 1545: William Bulkeley
• 1547: William Bulkeley
• 1549: Sir Richard Bulkeley (I)
• March 1553: Lewis Ab Owen ap Meurig
• October 1553: William Lewis
• April 1554: Sir Richard Bulkeley (I)
• November 1554: Sir Richard Bulkeley (I)
• 1555: William Lewis
• 1558: Rowland Ap Meredydd
• 1562/3: Richard Bulkeley (II)
• 1571: Sir Richard Bulkeley (I)
• 1572: Lewis Ab Owen ap Meurig
• 1584: Owen Holland
• 1586: Sir Henry Bagenal
• 1588: Richard Bulkeley (III)
• 1593: William Glynne
• 1597: Hugh Hughes
• 1601: Thomas Holland
• 1604: Sir Richard Bulkeley (II)
• 1614: Sir Richard Bulkeley (II)
• 1621: Richard Williams
• 1623: John Mosten
• 1625: Sir Sackville Trevor
• 1626: Richard Bulkeley (IV)
• 1628: Richard Bulkeley (IV)
• April 1640: John Bodville

Long Parliament

• 1640–1644: John Bodville (Royalist) - disabled to sit, 5 February 1644
• 1646–1648: Richard Wood - excluded in Pride's Purge, December 1648

Anglesey was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament

First Protectorate Parliament

• 1654–1655: Col. George Twisleton
• 1654–1655: William Foxwist

Second Protectorate Parliament

• 1656–1658: Col. George Twisleton
• 1656–1658: Griffith Bodwrda

Third Protectorate Parliament

• 1659: Col. George Twisleton

Election results in the 2000s

General election results, 1929-1950

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Gwynedd

References

Bibliography

• The House of Commons 1509-1558, by S.T. Bindoff (Secker & Warburg 1982)
• Williams, William Retlaw (1895). The Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales. Brecknock: E. Davies and Bell. pp. 1–8. http://books.google.com/books?id=rbYlAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 2008-08-28. 
• F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results, 1918-1949; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow, 1949
• Keele University, UK General Election Results, 1950