Alyn and Deeside (UK Parliament constituency)

Alyn and Deeside (Welsh: Alun a Glannau Dyfrdwy) is a parliamentary constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster). The constituency was created in 1983, and it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post method of election.

Alyn and Deeside
County constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Alyn and Deeside in Wales
Preserved countyClwyd
Population82,505 (2011 census)[1]
Electorate62,196 (December 2010)[2]
Major settlementsShotton, Connah's Quay, Buckley, Hawarden and Caergwrle
Current constituency
Created1983
Member of ParliamentMark Tami (Labour)
Number of membersOne
Created fromFlintshire East
Overlaps
Senedd Cymru – Welsh ParliamentNorth Wales

The Alyn and Deeside Welsh Assembly constituency was created with the same boundaries in 1999.

Boundaries

1983–1997: The District of Alyn and Deeside, and the Borough of Wrexham Maelor wards 13 and 14.

1997–2010: The District of Alyn and Deeside.

2010–present: The Flintshire County electoral divisions of Aston, Broughton North East, Broughton South, Buckley Bistre East, Buckley Bistre West, Buckley Mountain, Buckley Pentrobin, Caergwrle, Connah’s Quay Central, Connah’s Quay Golftyn, Connah’s Quay South, Connah’s Quay Wepre, Ewloe, Hawarden, Higher Kinnerton, Hope, Llanfynydd, Mancot, Penyffordd, Queensferry, Saltney Mold Junction, Saltney Stonebridge, Sealand, Shotton East, Shotton Higher, Shotton West, and Treuddyn.

This Cheshire/Wales boundary seat is part of the industrial hinterland north of Wrexham and west of Chester. It was formerly known as East Flintshire until the 1983 boundary review, in which it was renamed after the Alyn and Deeside district created in 1974. The main population areas in the current seat include Shotton, Connah's Quay, Buckley, Hawarden and Caergwrle.

Members of Parliament
ElectionMember[3]Party
1983 Barry Jones Labour
2001 Mark Tami Labour

Elections

Elections in the 1980s
General election 1983: Alyn and Deeside[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Barry Jones 17,806 40.3 N/A
Conservative Simon Burns 16,438 37.2 N/A
SDP Eric Owen 9,535 21.6 N/A
Plaid Cymru Keith Shore 413 0.9 N/A
Majority 1,368 3.1 N/A
Turnout 44,192 78.1 N/A
Registered electors 56,618
Labour win (new seat)
General election 1987: Alyn and Deeside[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Barry Jones 22,916 48.6 +8.3
Conservative Nicholas Twilley 16,500 35.0 −2.2
SDP Eric Owen 7,273 15.4 −6.2
Plaid Cymru John Rogers 478 1.0 +0.1
Majority 6,416 13.6 +10.5
Turnout 47,167 80.4 +2.3
Registered electors 58,764
Labour hold Swing +5.3

Elections in the 1990s
General election 1992: Alyn and Deeside[6][7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Barry Jones 25,206 52.0 +3.4
Conservative Jeffrey J. Riley 17,355 35.8 +0.8
Liberal Democrats Robert A. Britton 4,687 9.7 −5.7
Plaid Cymru John D. Rogers 551 1.1 +0.1
Green Victor J. Button 433 0.9 N/A
Independent John Cooksey 200 0.4 N/A
Majority 7,851 16.2 +2.6
Turnout 48,432 80.1 −0.3
Registered electors 60,477
Labour hold Swing +1.3
General election 1997: Alyn and Deeside[8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Barry Jones 25,955 61.9 +9.9
Conservative Timothy P. Roberts 9,552 22.8 −13.0
Liberal Democrats Eleanor Burnham 4,076 9.7 ±0.0
Referendum Malcolm J. D. Jones 1,627 3.9 N/A
Plaid Cymru Siw Hills 738 1.8 +0.7
Majority 16,403 39.1 +22.9
Turnout 41,948 72.2 -7.9
Registered electors 58,091
Labour hold Swing +11.5

Elections in the 2000s
General election 2001: Alyn and Deeside[10][11][12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Mark Tami 18,525 52.3 −9.6
Conservative Mark Isherwood 9,303 26.3 +3.5
Liberal Democrats Derek Burnham 4,585 12.9 +3.2
Plaid Cymru Richard S. Coombs 1,182 3.3 +1.5
Green Klaus Armstrong-Braun 881 2.5 N/A
UKIP William Crawford 481 1.4 N/A
Independent John Cooksey 253 0.7 N/A
Communist Glyn Davies 211 0.6 N/A
Majority 9,222 26.0 -13.1
Turnout 35,421 58.6 -13.6
Registered electors 60,478
Labour hold Swing -6.5
General election 2005: Alyn and Deeside[13][14][15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Mark Tami 17,331 48.8 −3.5
Conservative Lynne Hale 8,953 25.2 −1.1
Liberal Democrats Paul J. Brighton 6,174 17.4 +4.5
Plaid Cymru Richard Coombs 1,320 3.7 +0.4
UKIP Billy Crawford 918 2.6 +1.2
Forward Wales Klaus Armstrong-Braun 378 1.1 N/A
Independent Judith Kilshaw 215 0.6 -0.1
Communist Glyn Davies 207 0.6 ±0.0
Majority 8,378 23.6 -2.4
Turnout 35,496 60.2 +1.6
Registered electors 59,441
Labour hold Swing −1.2

Elections in the 2010s
General election 2010: Alyn and Deeside[16][17][18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Mark Tami 15,804 39.6 −9.2
Conservative Will Gallagher 12,885 32.3 +7.1
Liberal Democrats Paul J. Brighton 7,308 18.3 +0.9
Plaid Cymru Maurice Jones 1,549 3.9 +0.2
BNP John Walker 1,368 3.4 N/A
UKIP James Howson 1,009 2.5 −0.1
Rejected ballots 40
Majority 2,919 7.3 -16.3
Turnout 39,923 65.5 +5.3
Registered electors 60,931
Labour hold Swing −8.1
General election 2015: Alyn and Deeside[19][20][21]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Mark Tami 16,540 40.0 +0.4
Conservative Laura Knightly 13,197 31.9 −0.4
UKIP Blair Smillie 7,260 17.6 +15.1
Liberal Democrats Tudor Jones 1,733 4.2 −14.1
Plaid Cymru Jacqueline Hurst 1,608 3.9 ±0.0
Green Alasdair Ibbotson 976 2.4 N/A
Rejected ballots 50
Majority 3,343 8.1 +0.8
Turnout 41,314 66.6 +1.1
Registered electors 62,016
Labour hold Swing +0.4

Of the 82 rejected ballots:

  • 41 were either unmarked or it was uncertain who the vote was for.[20]
  • 9 voted for more than one candidate.[20]

In February 2015, the Conservative Party inadvertently leaked a list of non-target seats considered safe Labour, or where winning was considered highly unlikely,[22] which included Alyn and Deeside.[23] Independent Phil Woods announced he would stand,[24] but did not do so.

General election 2017: Alyn and Deeside[25][26][27]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Mark Tami 23,315 52.1 +12.1
Conservative Laura Knightly 18,080 40.4 +8.5
Plaid Cymru Jacqui Hurst 1,171 2.6 −1.3
UKIP David Griffiths 1,117 2.5 −15.1
Liberal Democrats Pete Williams 1,077 2.4 −1.8
Rejected ballots 84
Majority 5,235 11.7 +3.6
Turnout 44,760 71.0 +4.4
Registered electors 63,012
Labour hold Swing +1.8

Of the 84 rejected ballots:

  • 63 were either unmarked or it was uncertain who the vote was for.[26]
  • 17 voted for more than one candidate.[26]
  • 4 had writing or mark by which the voter could be identified.[26]
General election 2019: Alyn and Deeside[28][29][30]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Mark Tami 18,271 42.5 −9.6
Conservative Sanjoy Sen 18,058 42.0 +1.6
Brexit Party Simon Wall 2,678 6.2 N/A
Liberal Democrats Donna Lalek 2,548 5.9 +3.5
Plaid Cymru Susan Hills 1,453 3.4 +0.8
Rejected ballots 121
Majority 213 0.5 −11.2
Turnout 43,127 68.7 −2.3
Registered electors 62,783
Labour hold Swing −5.6

Of the 121 rejected ballots:

  • 103 were either unmarked or it was uncertain who the vote was for.[29]
  • 17 voted for more than one candidate.[29]
  • 1 had want of official mark.[29]
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See also

Notes
  1. A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer. As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.

References
  1. "Usual Resident Population, 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  2. "Beyond 20/20 WDS - Table view". 2011 Electorate Figures. StatsWales. 1 December 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
  3. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "A" (part 1)
  4. "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  5. "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  6. "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  7. "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
  8. "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  9. "BBC NEWS>VOTE 2001>Results and Constituencies>Alyn and Deeside". Vote 2001. BBC News. 1 May 1997. Retrieved 12 January 2011.
  10. "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  11. "Election Results". Flintshire County Council. Flintshire County Council. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
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  13. "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  14. "Election Results". Flintshire County Council. Flintshire County Council. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  15. "Alyn and Deeside parliamentary constituency - Election 2005" – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  16. "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  17. "BBC NEWS – Election 2010 – Alyn & Deeside". BBC News.
  18. "Election Results". Flintshire County Council. Flintshire County Council. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  19. "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  20. "Alyn and Deeside result". Election Results For Alyn And Deeside. Flintshire County Council. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  21. "Alyn and Deeside Parliamentary constituency". Election 2015. BBC News. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
  22. "may2015.com - may2015 Resources and Information". may2015.com.
  23. "Conservative Non Target Candidates".
  24. Porter, Gary (19 November 2014). "Connah's Quay comedy writer to stand for Alyn and Deeside in next election". Daily Post.
  25. "Persons Nominated" (PDF). Flintshire County Council. Flintshire County Council. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
  26. "Election Results". Flintshire County Council. Flintshire County Council. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  27. "Alyn and Deeside Parliamentary constituency". Election 2017 Results. BBC. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
  28. "Persons Nominated" (PDF). Flintshire County Council. Flintshire County Council. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
  29. "Election Results". Flintshire County Council. Flintshire County Council. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  30. "Alyn and Deeside Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
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