2010 Welsh Westminister constituencies map

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is currently divided into forty

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, which elect

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to the

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. After the General Election of December 2019, 22 of the Welsh constituencies are represented by Labour MPs, 14 by

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MPs, and 4 by

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MPs. On 8 September 2021, the boundary commission for Wales published its proposals for the new constituencies of Wales, reducing the number from 40 to 32. As of September 2021, the same constituencies are used for elections to the Senedd, with the same boundaries used to make up the Senedd constituencies; however, proposed changes to Westminster constituencies are not automatically applied to Senedd ones, and there are proposals to increase the number of Senedd constituencies.

Constituencies

Proposed boundary changes

Failed sixth periodic review

Under the terms of the

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, the

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(the 2018 review) was based on reducing the total number of MPs from 650 to 600 and a strict electoral parity requirement that the electorate of all constituencies should be within a range of 5% either side of the electoral quota. The Boundary Commission for Wales submitted their final proposals in respect of the Sixth Review in September 2018. Although the proposals were immediately laid before

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they were not brought forward by the

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for approval. Accordingly, they did not come into effect for the 2019 election which took place on 12 December 2019, and which was contested using the constituency boundaries in place since 2010. On 24 March 2020, the Minister of State for the Cabinet Office,

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, issued a written statement to Parliament setting out the Government's thinking with regard to parliamentary boundaries. Subsequently, the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020 was passed into law on 14 December 2020 which formally removed the duty to implement the 2018 review and set out the framework for future boundary reviews.

2023 periodic review

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was passed in December 2020, and the publication of the most recent data of electorate sizes of constituencies on 5 January 2021, lead the

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to begin its review of the parliamentary constituencies in Wales. With the commission required to publish its final recommendations for boundary changes by 1 July 2023. By December 2021, the commission will publish the responses collected during the consultation period, and then conduct a six-week 'secondary consultation. Unlike the previous periodic review, the total UK constituencies was kept at 650. When proportionally dividing the total 2021 electoral population of the United Kingdom using a statutory formula between the constituent countries of the UK, it results in England having 543 constituencies, Scotland having 57, Wales having 32 and Northern Ireland with the remaining 18. Each constituency recommended to have no more than 77,062 electors and no less than 69,724. The figure from Wales is calculated to be 8 seats lower from the total constituencies used for the 2019 UK general election when there were 40 constituencies, the largest decrease of any UK country or region. Wales has one 'protected constituency' not subject to UK electoral quotas, Ynys Môn on the

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, where boundary changes are not applied. The decrease in constituencies in Wales has been described by the commission to represent "the most significant change to Wales’s constituencies in a century", and the commission has no control over the number of constituencies in Wales. The final proposal published by the commission will no longer require Parliamentary approval and the recommendations in the final report will be implemented automatically, however the second consultation period will allow public hearing about the proposals. The commission stated that it tried wherever possible to use existing local government boundaries, such as those of existing constituencies and principal areas.

Revised proposals

On 19 October 2022, the Boundary Commission for Wales published its revised proposals for the new UK parliamentary constituencies in Wales. From publication following three periods of public consultation, there were comments due no later than 15 November. These are not the final constituencies to be used at the next UK general election, and marked on the table below. Final proposals will be published by 1 July 2023. New – not existed prior, expanded – keeps name of and contains an entire former constituency, redefined – keeps name of and contains most of a former constituency.

Results history

''Primary data source:'' House of Commons research briefing – General election results from 1918 to 2019

2019

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Wales in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Percentage votes

''Key:'' CON – Conservative Party, including National Liberal Party up to 1966 LAB – Labour Party LIB –

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up to 1979; SDP-Liberal Alliance 1983 & 1987; Liberal Democrats from 1992 PC –

UKIP/Br –

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2010 to 2017 (included in Other up to 2005 and in 2019);

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in 2019 Green –

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(included in Other up to 2005)

Seats

CON – Conservative Party, including National Liberal Party up to 1966 LAB – Labour Party LIB –

up to 1979; SDP-Liberal Alliance 1983 & 1987; Liberal Democrats from 1992 OTH – 1970 – Independent (

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); 2005 – Independent (

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) PC –

Maps

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represents the Labour Party's MPs. *

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represents the Conservative Party's MPs. *

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represents the Liberal Democrats' MPs. *

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represents

's MPs. *

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represents

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MPs.

2019 by-elections

*Two

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s were held in 2019: *

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References

{{Constituencies in Wales Lists of constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Wales

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