The other four Dyfed constituencies are, again, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, Llanelli and Preseli Pembrokeshire. Sir Thomas Davies Lloyd, 1st Baronet was a British Liberal Member of Parliament, for Cardiganshire (Ceredigion) 1865–1868 and Cardigan Boroughs 1868–1874. Ceredigion remained one of five Dyfed constituencies and one of eight constituencies in the Mid and West Wales region. This election split the Liberal Party in Cardiganshire and the election was hotly contested with almost all the landowners, including those previously regarded as having Liberal sympathies, supporting Davies. Current MP. Ceredigion, formerly Cardiganshire, is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. [5]. He was Liberal MP for the Cardiganshire Division from 1895 until 1921. For Westminster purposes, the same new constituency boundaries became effective for the 2010 United Kingdom general election. David Davies, however, did not withdraw and came within 361 votes of victory. After the death of the Speaker in 1965, Bowen accepted the offer to become a Deputy Speaker, which prevented him from speaking on behalf of his constituency. A selection meeting was arranged to be held at Aberaeron, but shortly before this took place, Powell announced his retirement. [18]. The region consisted of the eight constituencies of Brecon and Radnorshire, Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion, Llanelli, Meirionnydd Nant Conwy, Montgomeryshire and Preseli Pembrokeshire. Plaid, Lib Dems and Greens in pro-EU pact in Wales, Animated tour of the election in 10 stops, Five big things on Boris Johnson's to-do list, General election 2019: Latest national results, Election 2019: Election words and phrases explained. Local party members have chosen Cadan ap Tomos in the Welsh Senedd Ceredigion constituency for the elections set to take place in May next year. Selection of Liberal Candidate", "The Contest in Cardiganshire (editorial)", "The Two Cardiganshire Candidates (editorial)", "Election 2015: 'Baptism of fire' for Plaid candidate", "Election 2015: Candidate suggested cars be damaged", Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 2), "Results of Byelections in the 1997-2001 Parliament", "Ceredigion parliamentary constituency - Election 2005", "Ceredigion parliamentary constituency - Election 2015", "General Election 2017: Who will people in Aberystwyth vote for? Craig, F. W. S. (1974). Matthew Vaughan-Davies was the longest serving MP for the constituency, holding it from 1895 to 1921. This election was preceded by the previous Assembly election in 2003. The peerage created a vacancy in a historically Liberal seat and the Asquithites decided to take the Lloyd Georgeites on in their 'backyard' in what became a memorable by-election. More than 40,000 people, 71.3% of those eligible to vote, went to polling stations across the area on Thursday, in the first December general election since 1923. Aberystwyth Rheidol is the name of a local government electoral ward in the town of Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales. The first Labour Party candidate stood against Rhys Hopkin Morris at the 1931 general election and polled 24% of the vote in a straight fight against Morris, who had a 13,752 (52.0%) majority. Unusually the Labour vote actually fell in percentage terms compared with the previous election despite the Labour landslide in the country at large. Thereafter, Vaughan Davies was comfortably returned at each election but the vitality of the Liberal Association was in serious decline. Here are the most recent election results for the Ceredigion constituency. It was followed by the 2017 election. In the meantime, Vaughan Davies remained on poor terms with prominent Liberals, including John Gibson, editor of the Cambrian News until his death in 1915. Voter turnout was down by 2 percentage points since the last general election. Indeed, the paper went as far as to equate the division with that of 1886. Following this election there were claims of intimidation by Conservative landlords and a national fund was set up to support those purportedly evicted from their farms. The MP secured 15,208 votes out of a total of 40,105 in what was a healthy turnout of 71% across the constituency. Read about our approach to external linking. [27] At the 2010 general election, he received a massive increase in his vote, polling over 50% of the votes cast and raising his majority from 219 to 8,324 over the Plaid Cymru candidate, Penri James. The Plaid Cymru candidate beat Conservative Amanda Jenner by 6,329 votes, more than double the majority at the 2017 election. An election to Ceredigion County Council was held on 3 May 2012 along with elections to 20 of the other 21 local authorities in Wales, community council elections in Wales and other elections elsewhere in the United Kingdom. First elected: 2017-06-08. He was opposed by Arthur Saunders-Davies of Pentre but prevailed by a narrow margin. Simon George Thomas is a Welsh former politician who was a member of Plaid Cymru. [10] However, the Conservatives had chosen a candidate who was popular in his locality and not been involved in conflicts with his tenants. The general election of 1715 saw the return of Lewis Pryse, who was expelled from the House of Commons in the following year for refusing to attend the House to take oaths of loyalty to King George I after the Jacobite rising, with which he sympathised. Although Liberal Unionism continued to be championed by a relatively small group, led by the journalist Henry Tobit Evans, who published a newspaper, Y Brython, at Lampeter, most of the leading Liberals who had defected to Davies eventually returned to the fold, in some cases to contest the 1889 County Council elections. Labour established itself as the main challenger to the Liberals at the 1950 general election in a three-way contest, and the Conservatives opted out of the contest thereafter until 1964. Ceredigion is a constituency of the Senedd. More significantly, the further widening of the franchise in 1884 added between five and six thousand new voters to the register by extending the pattern of household suffrage to the counties. It was followed by the 1892 election. Powell of Nanteos sought to re-establish the family's claim to the county seat. Pembrokeshire was a parliamentary constituency based on the county of Pembrokeshire in Wales. The next Senedd election is due to be held on Thursday 6 May 2021 to elect 60 members to Senedd Cymru – the Welsh Parliament. This story was created using some automation. The University of Wales by-election, 1943 was a parliamentary by-election held in the United Kingdom between 25 and 29 January 1943 for the House of Commons constituency of University of Wales. The election is due to be held alongside the 2021 United Kingdom local elections and Scottish Parliament election. For the 1966 election, Labour selected Elystan Morgan who had been a member of Plaid Cymru until 1964; with a further national swing and Morgan making a credible bid for the Welsh-speaking vote, Labour won the seat by 523 votes. Labour moved from fifth to third in the seat and were roughly 3,000 votes behind Williams and Lake, their best result in Ceredigion since 1997, and the Tories fell to fourth but increased their vote by more than 3,000. The election was important for the bitterness of the contest between the Coalition and Independent factions within the Liberal Party and the deepening of this division within the party as a factor in the long-term decline of Liberalism in Wales. Ceredigion is a UK parliament constituency that is represented in the House of Commons by Mark Williams of the Liberal Democrat party. Chichester: Political Reference Publications. [15], In 1886, however, Davies broke with Gladstone over home rule for Ireland in 1886 and a number of his associates such as Robert J. Davies, Cwrtmawr followed him into the Liberal Unionist camp. [23], By 1914 the Liberal Association was heavily dependent on Vaughan Davies's role as treasurer to keep it going. The result was that both Henry Richard and David Davies offered themselves as candidates. Like many of the Liberal MPs he had been a barrister. candidate endorsed by the coalition government, List of Parliamentary constituencies in Dyfed, List of Parliamentary constituencies in Wales, "Ceredigion: Usual Resident Population, 2011", "Electoral roll: Electors and attainers, by National Assembly for Wales constituency", "Ceredigion could return to south constituency boundary", "Members expelled from the House of Commons since the Restoration", "Liberal Defeat in Cardiganshire (editorial)", "The Conservative Victory in Cardiganshire (editorial)", "Cardiganshire Election and its lessons (editorial)", "Representation of Cardiganshire. It is also one of eight constituencies in the Mid and West Wales electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to eight constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole. The Liberal Democrats in Ceredigion fear their vote there could be well down. Ben Lake has been re-elected as the MP for Ceredigion, with a significantly increased majority. Craig, F. W. S. (1969). British parliamentary election results 1950-1970 (1 ed.). The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Ceredigion Westminster constituency. With Vaughan Davies known to be a supporter of Lloyd George, it was natural that Lloyd George looked to him to boost his support in the House of Lords and awarded him a peerage in the New Years' Honours list in 1921.

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