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Monmouth (UK Parliament constituency)
UK Parliamentary constituency, 1918ā2024 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Monmouth (Welsh: Mynwy) was a county constituency[n 1] of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster). The seat was created for the 1918 general election. From 2005 until 2024 the Member of Parliament (MP) was David Davies of the Conservative Party.[n 2]
Monmouth Mynwy | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
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Preserved county | Gwent |
Electorate | 65,432 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Abergavenny, Chepstow, Monmouth |
1918ā2024 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Monmouth Boroughs, North Monmouthshire and South Monmouthshire |
Replaced by | Monmouthshire Torfaen |
Senedd | Monmouth, South Wales East |
The Monmouth Senedd constituency was created in 1999 with the same boundaries as the Westminster constituency. These covered a large area, omitting the mainly urban areas of Blaenau Gwent in the west and Newport, Wales in the south.
The constituency was abolished as part of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies and under the June 2023 final recommendations of the Boundary Commission for Wales for the 2024 United Kingdom general election. Its wards were split between Monmouthshire and Torfaen.[2]