Montgomeryshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

Montgomeryshire
Montgomeryshire
Former County constituency; for the House of Commons
	Boundary of Montgomeryshire in Wales
Preserved county	Powys
Electorate	48,910 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Newtown, Welshpool
1542–2024
Seats	One
Created from	Montgomery
Replaced by	Montgomeryshire and Glyndŵr
Senedd	Montgomeryshire, Mid and West Wales

Montgomeryshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom

Montgomeryshire (Welsh: Sir Drefaldwyn) was a constituency^{[n 1]} in Wales represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.

Quick Facts Preserved county, Electorate ...

Created in 1542, it elected one Member of Parliament (MP), formerly known as the knight of the shire, by the first-past-the-post system of election. It was abolished following the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies prior to the 2024 general election.

The Montgomeryshire Senedd constituency was created with the same boundaries in 1999 (as an Assembly constituency).

Boundaries and political history

Map of boundaries 1983-2024

The seat was based on the ancient county of Montgomeryshire, in the principal area of Powys. One of Britain's most rural and isolated constituencies, Montgomeryshire elected Liberal or Liberal-affiliated candidates from 1880, until a Conservative victory in the 1979 general election. In the 1983 general election it was the only seat in England and Wales where a sitting Conservative MP was unseated, while nationally the party's seat majority increased. However, in 2010, the Conservatives won and held the seat in 2015 and 2017, with an increased majority. The seat was officially known as Montgomery before 1997. It is the only seat in Wales never to have elected a Labour MP.^[2]

Until 1918 this seat, in common with many others, contained an enclaved seat, which comprised the boroughs of Montgomery, Llanfyllin, Llanidloes, Newtown and Welshpool. This seat survived the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 which abolished many similar seats. The seat was finally abolished in 1918 and absorbed into the wider Montgomeryshire seat.

Under proposed constituency boundary changes announced in September 2016, ahead of the next general election, the seat was to be partitioned, the northern half including Welshpool to be merged with Clwyd South to form a new seat of South Clwyd and North Montgomeryshire; most of the southern including Newtown was to be merged with the Brecon and Radnor seat to form a seat renamed as Brecon, Radnor and Montgomery,^[3] and the wards of Llanidloes and Blaen Hafren merged into the Ceredigion constituency which would form part of a new seat called Ceredigion and North Pembrokeshire.^[4] However, the general elections of 2017 and 2019 were fought on existing boundaries.

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Parliament	Member
1542	James Leche^[6]
1545	Humphrey Lloyd^[6]
1547	Humphrey Lloyd^[6]
1553 (Mar)	Edward Herbert^[6]
1553 (Oct)	Edward Herbert^[6]
1554 (Apr)	Edward Herbert^[6]
1554 (Nov)	Edward Herbert^[6]
1555	Not known
1558	Edward Herbert^[6]
1559 (Jan)	Edward Herbert I^[7]
1562–1563	Edward Herbert I^[7]
1571	Edward Herbert I^[7]
1572	John Price^[7]
1584 (Oct)	Richard Herbert^[7]
1586 (Oct)	Oliver Lloyd^[7]
1588 (Oct)	Edward Herbert I^[7]
1593	Reginald Williams^[7]
1597 (Sep)	William Herbert^[7]
1601 (Oct)	Edward Herbert^[7]

	Member^[8]	Party
1604–1611	William Herbert
1614	William Herbert
1621–1622	William Herbert
1624	William Herbert
1624–1629	William Herbert
1640	Richard Herbert
1640–1642	John Pryce
1642	Seat vacant from 12 September 1642, when Pryce was disabled from sitting
1647	Edward Vaughan
1648	Seat vacant after Vaughan was excluded in Pride's Purge
1653	Not separately represented in the Barebones Parliament
1654–1655 (two members)	Charles Lloyd
1654–1655 (two members)	John Pryce
1656–1658 (two members)	Charles Lloyd
1656–1658 (two members)	Hugh Pryce
1659	Edward Vaughan
1660	John Purcell
1661	Edward Vaughan
1661	Hon. Andrew Newport	Conservative
1679	Edward Vaughan	Conservative
1719	Hon. Price Devereux	Conservative
1740	Robert Williams
1741	Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn	Conservative
1742	Robert Williams
1747	Edward Kynaston
1772	Watkin Williams
1774	William Mostyn Owen
1795	Francis Lloyd
1799	Charles Williams-Wynn	Tory^[9]
1834	Charles Williams-Wynn	Conservative^[9]
1850 by-election	Herbert Williams-Wynn	Conservative
1862 by-election	Charles Williams-Wynn	Conservative
1880	Stuart Rendel	Liberal
1894 by-election	Arthur Humphreys-Owen	Liberal
1906	David Davies	Liberal
1929	Clement Davies	Liberal
1931		National Liberal
1939		Independent
1942		Liberal
1962 by-election	Emlyn Hooson	Liberal
1979	Delwyn Williams	Conservative
1983	Alex Carlile	Liberal
1988	Alex Carlile	Liberal Democrat
1997	Lembit Öpik	Liberal Democrat
2010	Glyn Davies	Conservative
2019	Craig Williams	Conservative

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Tory	Charles Williams-Wynn	Unopposed
Registered electors			c. 1,110
	Tory hold

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Tory	Charles Williams-Wynn	Unopposed
Registered electors			c. 1,110
	Tory hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tory	Charles Williams-Wynn	703	70.0	*N/A*
	Whig	Joseph Hayes Lyon	302	30.0	N/A
Majority			401	40.0	N/A
Turnout			1,005	c. 90.5	N/A
Registered electors			c. 1,110
	Tory hold

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Montgomeryshire
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Montgomeryshire in Wales
Preserved county	Powys
Electorate	48,910 (December 2010)^[1]
Major settlements	Newtown, Welshpool
1542–2024
Seats	One
Created from	Montgomery
Replaced by	Montgomeryshire and Glyndŵr
Senedd	Montgomeryshire, Mid and West Wales

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Charles Williams-Wynn	Unopposed
Registered electors			2,737
	Conservative hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Herbert Watkin Williams-Wynn	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles Williams-Wynn	1,269	57.0	*N/A*
	Liberal	Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy^[12]	959	43.0	N/A
Majority			310	14.0	N/A
Turnout			2,228	83.3	N/A
Registered electors			2,675
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Stuart Rendel	2,232	52.2	*N/A*
	Conservative	Charles Williams-Wynn	2,041	47.8	N/A
Majority			191	4.4	N/A
Turnout			4,273	80.8	N/A
Registered electors			5,291
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Stuart Rendel	4,044	54.4	+2.2
	Conservative	Charles Williams-Wynn	3,389	45.6	-2.2
Majority			655	8.8	+4.4
Turnout			7,433	83.8	+3.0
Registered electors			8,870
	Liberal hold		Swing	+2.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Stuart Rendel	3,799	54.1	-0.3
	Conservative	Devereux Herbert Mytton^[14]	3,220	45.9	+0.3
Majority			579	8.2	-0.6
Turnout			7,019	79.1	-4.7
Registered electors			8,870
	Liberal hold		Swing	-0.3

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Stuart Rendel	3,662	56.3	+2.2
	Conservative	Devereux Herbert Mytton^[14]	2,847	43.7	-2.2
Majority			815	12.6	+4.4
Turnout			6,509	73.3	-5.8
Registered electors			8,880
	Liberal hold		Swing	+2.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Humphreys-Owen	3,440	51.7	-4.6
	Conservative	Watkin Williams-Wynn	3,215	48.3	+4.6
Majority			225	3.4	-9.2
Turnout			6,655	82.2	+8.9
Registered electors			8,092
	Liberal hold		Swing	-4.6

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Humphreys-Owen	3,442	50.2	-6.1
	Conservative	Watkin Williams-Wynn	3,415	49.8	+6.1
Majority			27	0.4	-12.2
Turnout			6,857	85.8	+12.5
Registered electors			7,989
	Liberal hold		Swing	-6.1

General election 1929: Montgomery^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Clement Davies	12,779	46.5	-30.8
	Unionist	John Murray Naylor	10,651	38.7	N/A
	Labour	John Evans	4,069	14.8	-7.9
Majority			2,128	7.8	-46.8
Turnout			27,499	88.3	+8.9
Registered electors			31,142
	Liberal hold		Swing	-11.4

General election 1951: Montgomery^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Clement Davies	17,075	68.5	+18.5
	Labour	David Caradog Jones	7,854	31.5	+8.0
Majority			9,221	37.0	+13.5
Turnout			24,929	76.9	-12.0
Registered electors			32,423
	Liberal hold		Swing

General election 1955: Montgomery^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Clement Davies	16,021	68.0	-0.5
	Labour	David Caradog Jones	7,521	32.0	+0.5
Majority			8,500	36.0	-1.0
Turnout			23,542	73.6	-3.3
Registered electors			31,983
	Liberal hold		Swing	-0.5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Humphreys-Owen	3,482	52.0	+1.8
	Conservative	Watkin Williams-Wynn	3,218	48.0	-1.8
Majority			264	4.0	+3.6
Turnout			6,700	84.6	-1.2
Registered electors			7,915
	Liberal hold		Swing	+1.8

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	David Davies	Unopposed
Registered electors
	Liberal hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	David Davies	4,369	61.8	*N/A*
	Conservative	Arthur Williams-Wynn	2,697	38.2	N/A
Majority			1,672	23.6	N/A
Turnout			7,066	89.1	N/A
Registered electors			7,928
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	David Davies	14,942	77.3	*N/A*
	Labour	Arthur Davies	4,384	22.7	N/A
Majority			10,558	54.6	N/A
Turnout			19,326	79.4	N/A
Registered electors			24,338
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes
	National Liberal	Clement Davies	Unopposed
Registered electors			30,120
	National Liberal hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Clement Davies	14,018	56.3	*N/A*
	Conservative	Philip Owen	10,895	43.7	N/A
Majority			3,123	13.6	N/A
Turnout			24,913	77.4	N/A
Registered electors			32,180
	Liberal gain from National Liberal		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Clement Davies	14,401	50.0	-6.3
	Conservative	Harry West	7,621	26.5	-17.2
	Labour	John David Williams	6,760	23.5	N/A
Majority			6,780	23.5	+9.9
Turnout			28,782	88.9	+11.5
Registered electors			32,372
	Liberal hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Clement Davies	10,970	42.0	-26.0
	Conservative	Frank Leslie Morgan	8,176	31.3	N/A
	Labour	David Caradog Jones	6,950	26.6	-5.4
Majority			2,794	10.7	-25.3
Turnout			26,096	83.8	+10.2
Registered electors			31,152
	Liberal hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Emlyn Hooson	13,181	51.3	+9.3
	Conservative	Robert H. Dawson	5,632	21.9	-9.4
	Labour	Tudor Davies	5,299	20.6	-6.0
	Plaid Cymru	Islwyn Ffowc Elis	1,594	6.2	N/A
Majority			7,549	29.4	+18.7
Turnout			25,706	85.1	+1.3
Registered electors			30,202
	Liberal hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Emlyn Hooson	10,738	42.3	+0.3
	Conservative	Jerry Wiggin	6,768	26.7	-4.6
	Labour	Gwyn M. Evans	5,696	22.5	-4.1
	Plaid Cymru	Islwyn Ffowc Elis	2,167	8.5	N/A
Majority			3,970	15.6	+4.9
Turnout			25,369	84.1	+0.3
Registered electors			30,155
	Liberal hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Emlyn Hooson	10,278	41.5	-0.8
	Conservative	Jerry Wiggin	6,784	27.4	+0.7
	Labour	Gwyn M. Evans	5,891	23.8	+1.3
	Plaid Cymru	Trefor Edwards	1,841	7.4	-1.1
Majority			3,494	14.1	-1.5
Turnout			24,794	82.8	-1.3
Registered electors			29,951
	Liberal hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Emlyn Hooson	10,202	38.4	-3.1
	Conservative	Delwyn Williams	7,891	29.7	+2.3
	Labour	David W. Thomas	5,335	20.1	-3.7
	Plaid Cymru	Edward Millward	3,145	11.8	+4.4
Majority			2,311	8.7	-5.4
Turnout			26,573	82.3	-0.5
Registered electors			32,304
	Liberal hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Emlyn Hooson	12,495	45.4	+7.0
	Conservative	W R C Williams-Wynne	7,844	28.5	-1.2
	Labour	P W Harries	4,888	17.8	-2.3
	Plaid Cymru	A P Jones	2,274	8.3	-3.5
Majority			4,651	16.9	+8.2
Turnout			27,501	82.6	+0.3
Registered electors			33,303
	Liberal hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Emlyn Hooson	11,280	43.1	-2.3
	Conservative	W R C Williams-Wynne	7,421	28.4	-0.1
	Labour	P W Harries	5,031	19.2	+1.4
	Plaid Cymru	A P Jones	2,440	9.3	+1.0
Majority			3,859	14.7	-2.2
Turnout			26,172	77.9	-4.7
Registered electors			33,583
	Liberal hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Delwyn Williams	11,751	40.3	+11.9
	Liberal	Emlyn Hooson	10,158	34.9	−8.2
	Labour	J Price	4,751	16.3	−2.9
	Plaid Cymru	Carl Clowes	2,474	8.5	−0.8
Majority			1,593	5.4	N/A
Turnout			29,134	81.4	+1.5
Registered electors			35,786
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alex Carlile	12,863	43.3	+8.4
	Conservative	Delwyn Williams	12,195	41.1	+0.8
	Labour	Joe Wilson	2,550	8.6	−7.7
	Plaid Cymru	Carl Clowes	1,585	5.3	−3.2
	Independent	David Rowlands	487	1.6	N/A
Majority			668	2.2	N/A
Turnout			29,680	79.2	−2.2
Registered electors			37,474
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alex Carlile	14,729	46.6	+3.3
	Conservative	David Evans	12,171	38.5	−2.6
	Labour	Edward Llewellyn-Jones	3,304	10.5	+1.9
	Plaid Cymru	Carl Clowes	1,412	4.5	−0.8
Majority			2,558	8.1	+5.9
Turnout			31,616	79.4	+0.2
Registered electors			39,808
	Liberal hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Alex Carlile	16,031	48.5	+1.9
	Conservative	Jeannie France-Hayhurst	10,822	32.7	−5.8
	Labour	Stephen Wood	4,115	12.4	+1.9
	Plaid Cymru	Hugh Parsons	1,581	4.8	+0.3
	Green	Patrick Adams	508	1.5	N/A
Majority			5,209	15.8	+7.7
Turnout			33,057	79.9	+0.5
Registered electors			41,386
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Lembit Öpik	14,647	45.9	−2.6
	Conservative	Glyn Davies	8,344	26.1	−6.6
	Labour	Angharad Davies	6,109	19.1	+6.7
	Plaid Cymru	Helen Mary Jones	1,608	5.0	+0.2
	Referendum	John Bufton	879	2.8	N/A
	Green	Susan Walker	338	1.1	−0.4
Majority			6,303	19.8	+4.0
Turnout			31,925	74.7	−5.2
Registered electors			60,873
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	+2.0

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Lembit Öpik	14,319	49.4	+3.5
	Conservative	David Jones	8,085	27.9	+1.8
	Labour	Paul Davies	3,443	11.9	−7.2
	Plaid Cymru	David Senior	1,969	6.8	+1.8
	UKIP	David Rowlands	786	2.7	N/A
	ProLife Alliance	Ruth Davies	210	0.7	N/A
	Independent	Reginald Taylor	171	0.6	N/A
Majority			6,234	21.5	+1.7
Turnout			28,983	65.5	−9.2
Registered electors			62,200
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	+0.9