Wrexham (
Welsh: ''Wrecsam'') is a
parliamentary constituency
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centred on the city of
Wrexham
Wrexham ( ; cy, Wrecsam; ) is a city and the administrative centre of Wrexham County Borough in Wales. It is located between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley, near the border with Cheshire in England. Historically in the count ...
in the preserved county of Clwyd,
Wales
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in the United Kingdom. It was created in 1918, and is represented in the
House of Commons
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of the
UK Parliament
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from December 2019 by
Sarah Atherton of the
Conservative Party.
History
;Summary of results
Labour won the seat in all general elections from
1935 until
2019
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, when
Conservative
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Sarah Atherton became the first woman elected to represent Wrexham.
Tom Ellis, first elected in
1970
Events
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, defected in 1981 to the newly founded
Social Democratic Party. In
1983
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Events January
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, he unsuccessfully stood for
Clwyd South West instead.
;Turnout
Turnout has ranged between 59.5% in 2001 and 87.3% in 1950.
Boundaries
Until 1885, Wrexham was part of the
Denbighshire parliamentary constituency, which elected one
Member of Parliament
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until the
Reform Act 1832 increased this to two members. In 1885 the Denbighshire constituency was split — the area covered today became part of
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).
Wrexham constituency consists of the following electoral wards: 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.
1918–1949: The Municipal Borough of Wrexham, and the Rural District of Wrexham, and part of Chirk.
1950–1983: The Municipal Borough of Wrexham, and part of the Rural Districts of Ceiriog, and Wrexham.
Members of Parliament
Elections
Elections in the 1910s
Elections in the 1920s
Elections in the 1930s
Election in the 1940s
General Election 1939–40:
Another general election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;
*Labour:
Robert Richards
*Liberal:
Elections in the 1950s
Elections in the 1960s
Elections in the 1970s
Elections in the 1980s
Elections in the 1990s
Elections in the 2000s
Elections in the 2010s
Of the 55 rejected ballots:
*43 were either unmarked or it was uncertain who the vote was for.
[
*12 voted for more than one candidate.][
Of the 68 rejected ballots:
*53 were either unmarked or it was uncertain who the vote was for.][
*15 voted for more than one candidate.][
Of the 70 rejected ballots:
*57 were either unmarked or it was uncertain who the vote was for.][
*9 voted for more than one candidate.][
*4 had writing or mark by which the voter could be identified.]
See also
* Wrexham (Senedd constituency)
* List of parliamentary constituencies in Clwyd
* 1955 Wrexham by-election
The 1955 Wrexham by-election was a by-election held on 17 March 1955 for the British House of Commons constituency of Wrexham in Denbighshire, Wales.
The by-election was caused by the death of the town's Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) ...
* List of parliamentary constituencies in Wales
Notes
References
;Specific
;General
Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. .
External links
Politics Resources
(Election results from 1922 onwards)
(Election results from 1955 onwards)
2017 Election
House Of Commons Library 2017 Election report
A Vision Of Britain Through Time
(Constituency elector numbers)
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History of Denbighshire
Parliamentary constituencies in North Wales
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1918
Politics of Wrexham