Vale of Glamorgan (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1983 onwards / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Vale of Glamorgan (Senedd constituency).
Vale of Glamorgan (Welsh: Bro Morgannwg) is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Alun Cairns, a Conservative.[n 2]
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Vale of Glamorgan | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Preserved county | South Glamorgan |
Electorate | 76,508 (December 2019)[1] |
Major settlements | Barry, Llantwit Major, Dinas Powys, Cowbridge |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Alun Cairns (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Barry and Pontypridd[2] |
Overlaps | |
Senedd | Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales Central |
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It is a bellwether constituency, having been won by the party with a plurality of seats in every general election since the seat was created in 1983.
The constituency is to retain its name but its boundaries altered, 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.[3]