Ynys MÃ´n (UK Parliament constituency)

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Ynys MÃ´n (UK Parliament constituency)

Ynys Môn (pronounced ; until 1983 formerly called Anglesey in English

English language

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) is a constituency

United Kingdom constituencies

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of the House of Commons

British House of Commons

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of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Parliament of the United Kingdom

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. It elects one Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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(MP) by the first past the post system of election.

The Ynys Môn Welsh Assembly constituency was created with the same boundaries in 1999.

Laws in Wales Act 1535 (26 Hen. VIII, c. 26) provided for a single county seat in the House of Commons for each of twelve historic Welsh counties (including Anglesey) and two for Monmouthshire.

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Ynys Môn (pronounced ; until 1983 formerly called Anglesey in English

English language

United Kingdom constituencies

In the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly....
of the House of Commons

British House of Commons

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the British monarchy and the House of Lords ....
of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Member of Parliament

History

The Laws in Wales Act 1535 (26 Hen. VIII, c. 26) provided for a single county seat in the House of Commons for each of twelve historic Welsh counties (including Anglesey) and two for Monmouthshire. Using the modern year, starting on 1 January, these parliamentary constituencies were authorised in 1536. In practice, the first known Knights of the Shire from Wales (as Members of Parliament from county constituencies were known before the nineteenth century) were perhaps not elected until 1545.

The Act contains the following provision, which had the effect of enfranchising the shire of Anglesey.

And that for this present Parliament, and all other Parliaments to be holden and kept for this Realm, one Knight shall be chosen and elected to the same Parliaments for every of the Shires of Brecknock, Radnor, Mountgomery and Denbigh, and for every other Shire within the said Country of Dominion of Wales;

The official name of the constituency in English was Anglesey, until it was replaced by the Welsh name Ynys Môn. Parliament approved the change, to take effect from the United Kingdom general election, 1983

United Kingdom general election, 1983

The 1983 UK general election was held on 9 June 1983. It gave the Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher the most decisive election victory since United Kingdom general election, 1945....
. This was purely an alteration of the official name, as no boundary changes were involved.

Boundaries

Geographically, the constituency of Ynys Môn comprises the whole of the main island of Anglesey

Anglesey

Anglesey is an island and principal areas of Wales off the northwest coast of Wales, with a predominantly Welsh language-speaking population. It is connected to the mainland by two bridges spanning the Menai Strait: the original Menai Suspension Bridge , designed by Thomas Telford in 1826; and the newer reconstructed Britannia Bridge ; which...
and the smaller Holy Island

Holy Island, Anglesey

Holy Island is an island on the western side of Anglesey, north Wales. It is called "Holy" because of the high concentration of standing stones, burial chambers and other religious sites on the small island....
.

Members of Parliament

1326–1327: Howel ap Griffuyth
1326–1327: David ap Howel
1326–1327: Tudur Duy
1326–1327: Tudur ap Lewelyn
1326–1327: Lewelyn Vaghan
1326–1327: Howel ap Tudur

not represented in Parliament until 1541

1541: Name lost
1545: William Bulkeley
1547: William Bulkeley
1549: Sir Richard Bulkeley (I)
March 1553: Lewis Ab Owen ap Meurig
October 1553: William Lewis
April 1554: Sir Richard Bulkeley (I)
November 1554: Sir Richard Bulkeley (I)
1555: William Lewis
1558: Rowland Ap Meredydd
1562/3: Richard Bulkeley (II)
1571: Sir Richard Bulkeley (I)
1572: Lewis Ab Owen ap Meurig
1584: Owen Holland
1586: Sir Henry Bagenal
Henry Bagenal

Sir Henry Bagenal was marshal of the army in Ireland during the reign of Elizabeth I of England.Bagenal probably matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford when he was 16 , but left without taking a degree in order to join his father , who was marshal of the army in Ireland....
1588: Richard Bulkeley (III)
1593: William Glynne
1597: Hugh Hughes
1601: Thomas Holland
1604: Sir Richard Bulkeley (II)
1614: Sir Richard Bulkeley (II)
1621: Richard Williams
1623: John Mosten
1625: Sir Sackville Trevor
Sackville Trevor

Sir Sackville Trevor was a Wales sea captain. He was the brother of John Trevor .Having served with distinction under Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, he was knighted in 1604 and accompanied the future Charles I of England to Spain in 1623....
1626: Richard Bulkeley (IV)
1628: Richard Bulkeley (IV)
April 1640: John Bodville

Long Parliament
Long Parliament

The Long Parliament is the name of the List of Parliaments of England called by Charles I of England, on 3 November 1640, following the Bishops' Wars....

1640–1644: John Bodville (Royalist) - disabled to sit, 5 February 1644
1646–1648: Richard Wood - excluded in Pride's Purge
Pride's Purge

Pride?s Purge took place in December 1648, when troops under the command of Colonel Thomas Pride forcibly removed from the British House of Commons all those who were not supporters of the Grandee s in the New Model Army and the Independents....
, December 1648

Anglesey was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
Barebones Parliament

Barebone's Parliament, also known as the Nominated Assembly and the Parliament of Saints, came into being on 4 July 1653, and was the last attempt of the English Commonwealth of England to find a stable political form before the installation of Oliver Cromwell as The Protectorate....

First Protectorate Parliament
First Protectorate Parliament

The First Protectorate Parliament was summoned by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell under the terms of the Instrument of Government . It sat for one term from 3 September 1654 until 22 January 1655 with William Lenthall as the Speaker of the British House of Commons....

1654–1655: Col. George Twisleton
1654–1655: William Foxwist
William Foxwist

William Foxwist was a Wales judge and politician in the seventeenth century....

Second Protectorate Parliament
Second Protectorate Parliament

The Second Protectorate Parliament in England sat for two sessions from 17 September 1656 until 4 February 1658, with Thomas Widdrington as the Speaker of the British House of Commons....

1656–1658: Col. George Twisleton
1656–1658: Griffith Bodwrda

Third Protectorate Parliament
Third Protectorate Parliament

The Third Protectorate Parliament sat for one session, from 27 January 1659 until 22 April 1659, with Chaloner Chute and Thomas Bampfylde as the Speaker of the British House of Commons....

1659: Col. George Twisleton

Year		Member	Party
April 1660		Robert Bulkeley, 2nd Viscount Bulkeley	Court
1661		Nicholas Bagenal	Court
February 1679		Hon. Henry Bulkeley Henry Bulkeley The Honourable Henry Bulkeley was Master of the Household of Kings Charles II of England and James II of England, Member of Parliament from February 1679 to August 1679 for the constituency of Ynys M?n and from 1679 until 1689 for Beaumaris ....	Tory Tory In the political tradition of some List of countries where English is an official language, the term Tory may refer to a variety of Political party and creeds since it was originally used in the late 17th century to describe opponents to the Whig Party ....
August 1679		Hon. Richard Bulkeley	Tory Tory In the political tradition of some List of countries where English is an official language, the term Tory may refer to a variety of Political party and creeds since it was originally used in the late 17th century to describe opponents to the Whig Party ....
1685		Robert Bulkeley, 2nd Viscount Bulkeley	Tory Tory In the political tradition of some List of countries where English is an official language, the term Tory may refer to a variety of Political party and creeds since it was originally used in the late 17th century to describe opponents to the Whig Party ....
1689		Hon. Thomas Bulkeley	Tory Tory In the political tradition of some List of countries where English is an official language, the term Tory may refer to a variety of Political party and creeds since it was originally used in the late 17th century to describe opponents to the Whig Party ....
1690		Richard Bulkeley, 3rd Viscount Bulkeley	Tory Tory In the political tradition of some List of countries where English is an official language, the term Tory may refer to a variety of Political party and creeds since it was originally used in the late 17th century to describe opponents to the Whig Party ....
1704		Richard Bulkeley, 4th Viscount Bulkeley	Tory Tory In the political tradition of some List of countries where English is an official language, the term Tory may refer to a variety of Political party and creeds since it was originally used in the late 17th century to describe opponents to the Whig Party ....
1715		Owen Meyrick	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs are often described as one of two political party in Kingdom of England and later the United Kingdom from the late 17th to the mid-19th centuries....
1722		Richard Bulkeley, 4th Viscount Bulkeley	Tory Tory In the political tradition of some List of countries where English is an official language, the term Tory may refer to a variety of Political party and creeds since it was originally used in the late 17th century to describe opponents to the Whig Party ....
1725		Hugh Williams Hugh Williams (of Chester) Hugh Williams was a Wales politician.He was the son of John Williams, of Chester and Glascoed, who was in turn a younger son of William Williams ....	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs are often described as one of two political party in Kingdom of England and later the United Kingdom from the late 17th to the mid-19th centuries....
1734		Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet	Opposition Whig British Whig Party The Whigs are often described as one of two political party in Kingdom of England and later the United Kingdom from the late 17th to the mid-19th centuries....
1741		John Owen	Opposition Whig British Whig Party The Whigs are often described as one of two political party in Kingdom of England and later the United Kingdom from the late 17th to the mid-19th centuries....
1747		Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet	Opposition Whig British Whig Party The Whigs are often described as one of two political party in Kingdom of England and later the United Kingdom from the late 17th to the mid-19th centuries....
1761		Owen Meyrick	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs are often described as one of two political party in Kingdom of England and later the United Kingdom from the late 17th to the mid-19th centuries....
1770		Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet	Opposition Whig British Whig Party The Whigs are often described as one of two political party in Kingdom of England and later the United Kingdom from the late 17th to the mid-19th centuries....
1774		Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley Thomas James Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley, later Warren-Bulkeley, was an English people aristocrat and politician....	Opposition, later allied to Burke Edmund Burke Edmund Burke was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosophy who, after relocating to Great Britain, served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the British Whig Party party.... and later still to Pitt William Pitt the Younger William Pitt, the Younger was a Kingdom of Great Britain politician of the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. He became the youngest Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1783 at the age of 24....
1784		Nicholas Bayly	Independent Whig British Whig Party The Whigs are often described as one of two political party in Kingdom of England and later the United Kingdom from the late 17th to the mid-19th centuries.... , supported Pitt William Pitt the Younger William Pitt, the Younger was a Kingdom of Great Britain politician of the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. He became the youngest Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1783 at the age of 24....
1790		Hon. William Paget	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs are often described as one of two political party in Kingdom of England and later the United Kingdom from the late 17th to the mid-19th centuries.... , supported Pitt William Pitt the Younger William Pitt, the Younger was a Kingdom of Great Britain politician of the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. He became the youngest Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1783 at the age of 24....
1794		Sir Arthur Paget Arthur Paget (diplomat) Sir Arthur Paget Order of the Bath, Privy Councillor was a British diplomat....	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs are often described as one of two political party in Kingdom of England and later the United Kingdom from the late 17th to the mid-19th centuries....
1807		Hon. Berkeley Paget	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs are often described as one of two political party in Kingdom of England and later the United Kingdom from the late 17th to the mid-19th centuries....
1820		Henry Paget, Earl of Uxbridge Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was the son of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey.Lord Anglesey was M.P....	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs are often described as one of two political party in Kingdom of England and later the United Kingdom from the late 17th to the mid-19th centuries....
1832		Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs are often described as one of two political party in Kingdom of England and later the United Kingdom from the late 17th to the mid-19th centuries....
1837		Hon. William Stanley	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats....
1847		Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats....
1868		Richard Davies	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats....
1886		Thomas Lewis	Liberal (Gladstonian) Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats....
1895		Ellis Ellis-Griffith Sir Ellis Ellis-Griffith, 1st Baronet Sir Ellis Jones Ellis-Griffith, 1st Baronet Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council King's Counsel , was a United Kingdom barrister and Liberal Party politician....	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats....
1918		Sir Owen Thomas	Independent Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Left-wing politics in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently organised again....
1923		Sir Robert Thomas Sir Robert Thomas, 1st Baronet Sir Robert John Thomas, 1st Baronet was a Wales businessman and Liberal Party politician, who was twice elected to parliament.Thomas was a ship and insurance broker....	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats....
1929		Lady Megan Lloyd George Megan Lloyd George Lady Megan Arfon Lloyd George Order of the Companions of Honour was a British politician, the first female Member of Parliament for a Wales constituency, and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party ....	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats....
1951		Cledwyn Hughes Cledwyn Hughes Cledwyn Hughes, Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos, Order of the Companions of Honour, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, , was a Welsh people Labour Party politician....	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Left-wing politics in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently organised again....
1979		Keith Best Keith Best Keith Lander Best was Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Anglesey from 1979 to 1983, and for Ynys M?n from 1983 to 1987. He was personal assistant to the Secretary of State for Wales from 1981 to 1984....	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
1983	Name changed to Ynys Môn
1987		Ieuan Wyn Jones Ieuan Wyn Jones Ieuan Wyn Jones, Assembly Member is leader of Plaid Cymru, Deputy First Minister in the Welsh Assembly Government and Member of the National Assembly for Wales for the Ynys M?n ....	Plaid Cymru Plaid Cymru Plaid Cymru is a political party in Wales. It advocates the establishment of an independent Welsh state within the European Union.Plaid Cymru was formed in 1925 and won its first seat in 1966....
2001		Albert Owen Albert Owen Albert Owen is a Wales politician, and member of Parliament for Ynys M?n for the Labour Party . He took the seat in the United Kingdom general election, 2001 from Plaid Cymru with a margin of exactly eight hundred votes and retained the seat with an increased majority of approximately twelve hundred votes in the United Kingdom general elect...	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Left-wing politics in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently organised again....

Ynys MÃ´n (UK Parliament constituency)

History

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

Election results in the 2000s

General election results, 1929-1950

See also