Monmouth (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1918 onwards / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Monmouth (Welsh: Mynwy) is 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. Since 2005 the Member of Parliament (MP) has been David Davies of the Conservative Party.[n 2]
Monmouth Mynwy | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Preserved county | Gwent |
Electorate | 65,432 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Abergavenny, Chepstow, Monmouth |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1918 |
Member of Parliament | David Davies (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Monmouth Boroughs, North Monmouthshire and South Monmouthshire |
Overlaps | |
Senedd | Monmouth, South Wales East |
The Monmouth Senedd constituency, created in 1999, has normally the same boundaries as the Westminster constituency. These cover a large area, omitting the mainly urban areas of Blaenau Gwent in the west and Newport, Wales in the south.
The constituency is set to be 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 next United Kingdom general election. Its wards is to be split between Monmouthshire and Torfaen.[2]