Ynys Môn (UK Parliament constituency)


Ynys Môn is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.
The Ynys Môn Welsh Assembly constituency was created with the same boundaries in 1999.
Ynys Môn is represented by Virginia Crosbie of the Conservative Party. Crosbie is the first Conservative to win the constituency since the 1983 general election.

History

The Laws in Wales Act 1535 provided for a single county seat in the House of Commons for each of 12 historic Welsh counties and two for Monmouthshire. Using the modern year, starting on 1 January, these parliamentary constituencies were authorised in 1536.
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 earliest known results are a fragment of the 1541 returns, in which the name of the Knight of the Shire for Anglesey has been lost. It is not known if Anglesey was represented in the parliaments of 1536 and 1539.
The borough constituency of Newborough, soon renamed Beaumaris, returned a member of parliament for the boroughs of Anglesey. It was abolished in 1885, leaving only the county constituency of Anglesey. 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 1983 general election. 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 and the smaller Holy Island.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1545–1640

ParliamentMember
1545William Bulkeley
1547William Bulkeley
1549Sir Richard Bulkeley
1553 Lewis Ab Owen ap Meurig
1553 William Lewis
1554 Sir Richard Bulkeley
1554 Sir Richard Bulkeley
1555William Lewis
1558Rowland Ap Meredydd
1562/3Richard Bulkeley
1571Sir Richard Bulkeley
1572Lewis Ab Owen ap Meurig
1584Owen Holland
1586Sir Henry Bagenal
1588Richard Bulkeley
1593William Glynne
1597Hugh Hughes
1601Thomas Holland
1604Sir Richard Bulkeley
1614Sir Richard Bulkeley
1621Richard Williams
1624John Mostyn
1625Sir Sackville Trevor
1626Richard Bulkeley
1628Richard Bulkeley
1639–1640No Parliaments summoned

MPs after 1640

Short Parliament
Long Parliament
Anglesey was unrepresented in Barebone's Parliament
First Protectorate Parliament
Second Protectorate Parliament
Third Protectorate Parliament

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Elections in the 2010s

Of the 67 rejected ballots:
Of the 121 rejected ballots: