Aberconwy (UK Parliament constituency)

Not to be confused with Aberconwy (Assembly constituency).

Aberconwy
County constituency for the House of Commons
200px Boundary of Aberconwy in Wales for the 2010 general election.
Preserved county	Clwyd
Electorate	45,407 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Llandudno, Conwy
Current constituency
Created	2010
Member of parliament	Guto Bebb (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Conwy and Meirionnydd Nant Conwy
Overlaps
Welsh Assembly	North Wales
European Parliament constituency	Wales

Aberconwy is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster). The seat was created by the Welsh Boundary Commission for the 2010 general election, and replaced the old north Wales seat of Conwy.

The same boundaries were used for the Aberconwy Welsh Assembly constituency in the 2007 Welsh Assembly election.

Boundaries

The constituency is a new creation of the Boundary Commission for Wales and is based on the existing Conwy seat. It is centred on Llandudno, Conwy town and associated suburbs such as Deganwy and Penrhyn Bay along with the Conwy Valley. The other main component of the former Conwy seat, Bangor, is removed to the new Arfon constituency.

The name Aberconwy was chosen partly to avoid confusion between the former Conwy parliamentary seat (which, confusingly, had been the name first proposed by the Commission for the new seat), the existing county borough, town council and ward name. The seat is exactly co-terminous with the old Aberconwy district, abolished in 1996, and thus the name was thought to be a natural one with which to name the new constituency. Bangor, the main Labour voting area of the former Conwy constituency, is no longer within the constituency, whereas the more Conservative areas such as Llandudno and Conwy itself are retained. The constituency is diverse, combining Welsh-speaking rural areas, English-speaking coastal dwellers, many affluent suburbs, pockets of relative poverty, seaside resorts such as Llandudno and more industrial areas such as Llandudno Junction. In many ways the new Aberconwy seat resembles its neighbour Clwyd West (the other seat covering Conwy County Borough) to a large degree, as both seats have a similar social profile and, as seems likely, a similar voting pattern.

The wards of Conwy County Borough that were incorporated into the new Aberconwy seat are:

• Betws-y-Coed, Bryn, Caerhun, Capelulo,CRWST Conwy, Craig Y Don, Deganwy, Eglwysbach, Gogarth, Gower, Llansanffraid Glan Conwy, Marl, Mostyn, Pandy, Pant Yr Afon/Penmaenan, Penrhyn, Pensarn, Trefriw, Tudno and Uwch Conwy.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	2010	Guto Bebb	Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

This seat was fought for the first time at the 2010 general election.

General Election 2015: Aberconwy

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Guto Bebb	12,513	41.5	+5.7
	Labour	Mary Wimbury	8,514	28.2	+3.8
	Plaid Cymru	Dafydd Meurig	3,536	11.7	-6.1
	UKIP	Andrew Haigh	3,467	11.5	+9.4
	Liberal Democrat	Victor Babu	1,391	4.6	-14.7
	Green	Petra Haig	727	2.4	n/a
Majority			3,999	13.3	+2.0
Turnout			30,148	66.2	-1.0
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.9

General Election 2010: Aberconwy

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Guto Bebb	10,734	35.8	+6.8
	Labour	Ronnie Hughes	7,336	24.5	-8.5
	Liberal Democrat	Mike Priestley	5,786	19.3	+0.2
	Plaid Cymru	Phil Edwards	5,341	17.8	+3.8
	UKIP	Mike Wieteska	632	2.1	+1.0
	Christian	Louise Wynne Jones	137	0.5	+0.5
Majority			3,398	11.3
Turnout			29,966	67.2	+5.2
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+7.6

See also

• Aberconwy (Assembly constituency)
• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Clwyd