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Islwyn (UK Parliament Constituency)
Islwyn () was a Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, constituency in Wales represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The area, historically known for coal-mining, had voted for Labour Party (UK), Labour Party candidates since it was created effective at the 1983 United Kingdom general election, 1983 general election. Islwyn's first Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) was Neil Kinnock, who represented it until he resigned from Parliament in 1995. Kinnock also served as Leader of the Labour Party (UK), Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom), Leader of the Opposition from 1983 until 1992. The constituency was abolished as part of the 2023 periodic review of Westminster constituencies and under the List of parliamentary constituencies in Wales#Final recommendations, June 2023 final recommendations of the Boundary Commission fo ...
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Bedwellty (UK Parliament Constituency)
Bedwellty was a county constituency in Monmouthshire (historic), Monmouthshire which returned one Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 United Kingdom general election, 1918 until it was abolished for the 1983 United Kingdom general election, 1983 general election. It was then largely replaced by the new Islwyn (UK Parliament constituency), Islwyn constituency. Boundaries On its creation in 1918 the constituency consisted of the Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), urban districts of Bedwas and Machen, Bedwellty, Mynyddislwyn and Risca and the civil parish of Rogerstone in St Mellons Rural District.Schedule 9 to the Representation of the People Act, 1918 (7 & 8 Geo. 5. C.64) These areas had previously been divided between the West Monmouthshire and South Monmouthshire constituencies. The House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) ...
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Parliament Of The United Kingdom
The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster in London. Parliament possesses legislative supremacy and thereby holds ultimate power over all other political bodies in the United Kingdom and the Overseas Territories. While Parliament is bicameral, it has three parts: the sovereign, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons. The three parts acting together to legislate may be described as the King-in-Parliament. The Crown normally acts on the advice of the prime minister, and the powers of the House of Lords are limited to only delaying legislation. The House of Commons is the elected lower chamber of Parliament, with elections to 650 single-member constituencies held at least every five years under the first-past-the-post system. By constitutional conventi ...
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Welsh Labour
Welsh Labour (), formerly known as the Labour Party in Wales (), is an autonomous section of the United Kingdom Labour Party (UK), Labour Party in Wales and the largest party in modern Welsh politics. Welsh Labour and its forebears have won a plurality of the Welsh vote at every UK general election since 1922, every National Assembly for Wales, Assembly and Senedd election since 1999, and all elections to the European Parliament in the period 1979–2004 and in 2014. Welsh Labour holds 27 of the 32 Welsh seats in the UK Parliament, 30 of the 60 seats in the Welsh Senedd and 576 of the 1,264 councillors in Local government in Wales, principal local authorities including overall control of 10 of the 22 principal local authorities. It has longest winning streak of any political party in the world and has been described as "by some distance the democratic world's most successful election-winning machine". Structure Welsh Labour is formally part of the Labour Party, not separately ...
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Newport West And Islwyn (UK Parliament Constituency)
Newport West and Islwyn () is a List of UK Parliament constituencies, constituency of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament, first contested at the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 general election, following the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies. It is currently represented by Labour Party (UK), Labour's Ruth Jones (politician), Ruth Jones, who was previously MP for Newport West (UK Parliament constituency), Newport West from 2019 to 2024. Boundaries Under the 2023 review, the constituency was defined as being composed of the following, as they existed on 1 December 2020: * The County Borough of Caerphilly wards of:Abercarn; Argoed; Blackwood; Cefn Fforest; Crosskeys; Crumlin; Newbridge; Penmaen; Risca East; Risca West. * The City and County Borough of Newport wards of: Allt-yr-Yn; Gaer; Graig; Marshfield; Rogerstone; Tredegar Park. Following local government boundary reviews which ...
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Blaenau Gwent And Rhymney (UK Parliament Constituency)
Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney () is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament, first contested at the 2024 general election, following the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies. It is currently represented by Nick Smith of the Labour Party, who was the MP for the predecessor constituency of Blaenau Gwent from 2010 to 2024. Boundaries Under the 2023 review, the constituency was defined as being composed of the following, as they existed on 1 December 2020: * The County Borough of Blaenau Gwent. * The County Borough of Caerphilly wards of: Aberbargoed; Bargoed; Darren Valley; Gilfach; Moriah; New Tredegar; Pontlottyn; Twyn Carno. Following local government boundary reviews which came into effect in May 2022, the constituency now comprises the following from the 2024 general election: * The County Borough of Blaenau Gwent. * The County Borough of Caerphilly wards of: Aberbargoed and Bargoed; Darren Valley; Gilfach; Moriah and Pontlottyn; New Tredegar ...
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2024 United Kingdom General Election
The 2024 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 4 July 2024 to elect all 650 members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons. The opposition Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, led by Keir Starmer, won a landslide victory over the governing Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party under Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, ending 14 years of Conservative rule. Labour secured 411 seats and a 174-seat majority, the fourth-best showing in the party's history and its best since 2001 United Kingdom general election, 2001. The party's vote share was 33.7%, the lowest of any majority party on record, making this the #Proportionality concerns, least proportional general election in British history. They became the largest party in England, Scotland, and Wales. The Conservatives suffered their worst-ever defeat, winning just 121 seats with 23.7% of the vote and losing 251 seats, including those of former prime minister ...
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Boundary Commission For Wales
In the United Kingdom, the boundary commissions are non-departmental public bodies responsible for determining the boundaries of parliamentary constituencies for elections to the House of Commons. There are four boundary commissions: one each for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Each commission comprises four members, three of whom take part in meetings. The speaker of the House of Commons chairs each of the boundary commissions ''ex officio'' but does not play any part in the review, and a High Court judge is appointed to each boundary commission as deputy chair. Considerations and process The boundary commissions, which are required to report every eight years, must apply a set series of rules when devising constituencies. These rules are set out in the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986, as amended by the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 and subsequently by the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020. Firstly, each proposed const ...
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List Of Parliamentary Constituencies In Wales
Wales is divided into thirty-two constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which elect Members of Parliament to the House of Commons. At the 2024 United Kingdom general election in Wales, 27 Labour MPs, 4 Plaid Cymru MPs and 1 Liberal Democrat MP were elected. The Conservative Party lost all of their 13 MPs in Wales. This is a decrease from forty constituencies, last used in the general election of December 2019 which had resulted in 22 of the Welsh constituencies being represented by Labour MPs, 14 by Conservative MPs, and 4 by Plaid Cymru MPs. The number of constituencies was reduced from 40 to 32, as part of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, in which the Boundary Commission for Wales set the boundaries of the new constituencies, following a process starting in 2021 and concluding on 28 June 2023 when the final recommendations were published by the commission. Until 2026, the devolved Senedd will continue using 40 constituencies as ...
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2023 Periodic Review Of Westminster Constituencies
The 2023 review of Westminster constituencies was the most recent cycle of the process to redraw the Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, constituency map for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The new constituency boundaries were approved by the Privy Council (United Kingdom), Privy Council on 15 November 2023 and came into law on 29 November. It is the first review of Westminster boundaries to be successfully implemented since Fifth periodic review of Westminster constituencies, 2010. These constituencies were first contested at the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 general election. Legal basis The process for periodic reviews of parliamentary constituencies in the United Kingdom is governed by the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986, as amended by the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 and subsequently by the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020. Individual registration The 2023 review was the successor to the 2 ...
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Leader Of The Opposition (United Kingdom)
The Leader of His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition, more commonly referred to as the Leader of the Opposition, is the person who leads the His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition, Official Opposition in the United Kingdom. The position is seen as the shadow head of government of the United Kingdom and thus the shadow prime minister of the United Kingdom. Originally Constitutional convention (political custom), by convention, the Leader of the Opposition is the leader of the largest political party in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons that is not in Government of the United Kingdom, government. When a single party wins outright, this is the party leader of the second-largest political party in the House of Commons. The role has since been codified by statute. The Leader of the Opposition is often viewed as an alternative or shadow Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, prime minister, and is appointed to the Privy Council (United Kingdom), Privy Council. Th ...
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Leader Of The Labour Party (UK)
The leader of the Labour Party is the highest political office within the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party of the United Kingdom. The current holder of the position is Keir Starmer, who was elected to the position on 4 April 2020, following his victory in that year's 2020 Labour Party leadership election (UK), leadership election. He has served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 general election. The position of leader was officially codified in the Labour Party's constitution in 1922. Before this, from when Labour MPs were first elected at the 1906 United Kingdom general election, 1906 general election and the 1922 United Kingdom general election, 1922 general election (the first election that saw substantial gains for the Labour Party), the position of leader was known as Parliamentary Labour Party, Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP).Thorpe, Andrew. (2001) ''A History of the British Labour Party'', Palgrave, ...
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Neil Kinnock
Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock (born 28 March 1942) is a Welsh politician who was Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom), Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party (UK), Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 Labour Party leadership election (UK), 1983 to 1992 Labour Party leadership election, 1992. He was a Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) from 1970 to 1995, first for Bedwellty (UK Parliament constituency), Bedwellty and then for Islwyn (UK Parliament constituency), Islwyn. He was Vice-President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. Kinnock was considered to be on the soft left of the Labour Party. Born and raised in South Wales, Kinnock was first elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons in the 1970 United Kingdom general election, 1970 general election. He became the Labour Party's shadow education minister after the Conservatives won power in the 1979 United Kingdom general election, 19 ...
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