Bridgend (UK Parliament constituency)
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Not to be confused with Bridgend (Assembly constituency).
Coordinates: 51°30′25″N 3°34′52″W / 51.507°N 3.581°W
| Bridgend | |
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| County constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
 Boundary of Bridgend in Wales. |
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| Preserved county | Mid Glamorgan |
| Electorate | 59,533 (December 2010)[1] |
| Major settlements | Bridgend, Porthcawl |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1983 |
| Member of Parliament | Madeleine Moon (Labour) |
| Number of members | One |
| Created from | Aberavon and Ogmore |
| Overlaps | |
| Welsh Assembly | South Wales West |
| European Parliament constituency | Wales |
Bridgend (Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr in Welsh) is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It returns one Member of Parliament (MP), elected by the first past the post voting system.
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Members of Parliament
The Bridgend constituency was created in 1983 from parts of the seats of Ogmore & Aberavon. It normally elects Labour MPs although it went Conservative at the 1983 election landslide. Its current MP is Madeleine Moon (Labour) and its Assembly member is Carwyn Jones (Labour), the First Minister. However, Labour, while remaining the largest party, lost control of Bridgend county borough council at the last elections to a "rainbow coalition" of Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, Independents and Plaid Cymru.
| Election | Member[2] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Peter Hubbard-Miles | Conservative | |
| 1987 | Win Griffiths | Labour | |
| 2005 | Madeleine Moon | Labour | |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
| General Election 2010: Bridgend [3] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Madeleine Moon | 13,931 | 36.3 | -6.6 | |
| Conservative | Helen Baker | 11,668 | 30.4 | +5.4 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Wayne Morgan | 8,658 | 22.6 | +0.5 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Nicholas Thomas | 2,269 | 5.9 | -1.0 | |
| BNP | Brian Urch | 1,020 | 2.7 | +2.7 | |
| UKIP | Dave Fulton | 801 | 2.1 | +0.7 | |
| Majority | 2,263 | 5.9 | |||
| Turnout | 38,347 | 65.3 | +5.6 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -6.0 | |||
Elections in the 2000s
| General Election 2005: Bridgend | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Madeleine Moon | 16,410 | 43.3 | -9.2 | |
| Conservative | Helen Baker | 9,887 | 26.1 | +0.8 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Paul Warren | 7,949 | 21.0 | +6.6 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Gareth Clubb | 2,527 | 6.7 | -0.5 | |
| Green | Jonathan Spink | 595 | 1.6 | +1.6 | |
| UKIP | Kunnathur Rajan | 491 | 1.3 | +1.3 | |
| Majority | 6,523 | 17.2 | |||
| Turnout | 37,859 | 59.2 | -1.0 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -5.0 | |||
| General Election 2001: Bridgend | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Win Griffiths | 19,423 | 52.5 | -5.6 | |
| Conservative | Tania Brisby | 9,377 | 25.3 | +2.5 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Jean Barraclough | 5,330 | 14.4 | +2.9 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Monica Mahoney | 2,653 | 7.2 | +3.4 | |
| ProLife Alliance | Sara Jeremy | 223 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| Majority | 10,046 | 27.2 | |||
| Turnout | 37,006 | 60.2 | -12.1 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1990s
| General Election 1997: Bridgend | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Win Griffiths | 25,115 | 58.1 | ||
| Conservative | David Thomas Charles Davies | 9,867 | 22.8 | ||
| Liberal Democrat | Andrew Mckinlay | 4,968 | 11.5 | ||
| Referendum Party | T Greaves | 1,662 | 3.8 | ||
| Plaid Cymru | D Watkins | 1,649 | 3.8 | N/A | |
| Majority | 15,248 | ||||
| Turnout | 72.4 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| General Election 1992: Bridgend[4] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Win Griffiths | 24,143 | 51.3 | +3.7 | |
| Conservative | David A. Unwin | 16,817 | 35.7 | −2.3 | |
| Liberal Democrat | David Mills | 4,827 | 10.3 | −1.9 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Alun Lloyd Jones | 1,301 | 2.8 | +0.5 | |
| Majority | 7,326 | 15.6 | +6.0 | ||
| Turnout | 47,088 | 80.5 | −0.1 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | +3.0 | |||
See also
Notes and references
- ^ "Beyond 20/20 WDS - Table view". 2011 Electorate Figures. StatsWales. 1 December 2010. http://www.statswales.wales.gov.uk/TableViewer/tableView.aspx?ReportId=14666. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 5)[self-published source?][better source needed]
- ^ Bridgend BBC Election - Bridgend
- ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/ge92index.htm. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
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