Alyn and Deeside (UK Parliament constituency)

Boundaries

1983–1997: The District of Alyn and Deeside, and the Borough of Wrexham Maelor wards 13 and 14.

1997–2010: The District of Alyn and Deeside.

2010–2024: The Flintshire County electoral divisions of Aston, Broughton North East, Broughton South, Buckley Bistre East, Buckley Bistre West, Buckley Mountain, Buckley Pentrobin, Caergwrle, Connah's Quay Central, Connah's Quay Golftyn, Connah's Quay South, Connah's Quay Wepre, Ewloe, Hawarden, Higher Kinnerton, Hope, Llanfynydd, Mancot, Penyffordd, Queensferry, Saltney Mold Junction, Saltney Stonebridge, Sealand, Shotton East, Shotton Higher, Shotton West, and Treuddyn.

2024–present: From the 2024 general election the seat of Alyn and Deeside was expanded towards Flint as a result of the abolition of the Delyn constituency in the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies. Under the review, the constituency was defined as being composed of the following wards of the County of Flintshire as they existed on 1 December 2020:

• Aston, Bagillt East, Bagillt West, Broughton North East, Broughton South, Buckley Bistre East, Buckley Bistre West, Buckley Mountain, Buckley Pentrobin, Caergwrle, Connah’s Quay Central, Connah’s Quay Golftyn, Connah's Quay South, Connah's Quay Wepre, Ewloe, Flint Castle, Flint Coleshill, Flint Oakenholt, Flint Trelawny, Hawarden, Higher Kinnerton, Hope, Llanfynydd, Mancot, Penyffordd, Queensferry, Saltney Mold Junction, Saltney Stonebridge, Sealand, Shotton East, Shotton Higher, Shotton West, and Treuddyn. Following a local government boundary review which came into effect in May 2022, the constituency now comprises the following wards of the County of Flintshire from the 2024 general election:

• Bagillt, Broughton North East, Broughton South, Buckley: Bistre East, Buckley: Bistre West, Buckley: Mountain, Buckley: Pentrobin, Caergwrle, Connah’s Quay Central, Connah’s Quay: Golftyn, Connah's Quay South, Connah's Quay: Wepre, Flint: Castle, Flint: Coleshill and Trelawney, Flint: Oakenholt, Hawarden: Aston, Hawarden: Ewloe, Hawarden: Mancot, Higher Kinnerton, Hope, Llanfynydd, Pen-y-ffordd, Queensferry and Sealand, Saltney Ferry, Shotton East and Shotton Higher, Shotton West, and Treuddyn.

Constituency profile

This Welsh seat on the English border is part of the industrial hinterland north of Wrexham and west of Chester, with large employers including Toyota, BAE and Airbus. The main population areas in the current seat include Flint, Shotton, Connah's Quay, Buckley, Hawarden and Caergwrle. It was formerly known as East Flintshire until the 1983 boundary review, in which it was renamed after the Alyn and Deeside district created in 1974.

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

|reg. electors = 75,790

Elections in the 2010s

|reg. electors = 62,789 Of the 121 rejected ballots:

• 103 were either unmarked or it was uncertain who the vote was for.
• 17 voted for more than one candidate.
• 1 had want of official mark. |reg. electors = 63,013 Of the 84 rejected ballots:
• 63 were either unmarked or it was uncertain who the vote was for.
• 17 voted for more than one candidate.
• 4 had writing or mark by which the voter could be identified. |reg. electors = 62,016 Of the 50 rejected ballots:
• 41 were either unmarked or it was uncertain who the vote was for.
• 9 voted for more than one candidate. In February 2015, the Conservative Party inadvertently leaked a list of non-target seats considered safe Labour, or where winning was considered highly unlikely, which included Alyn and Deeside. Independent Phil Woods announced he would stand, but did not do so. |reg. electors = 60,931

Elections in the 2000s

|reg. electors = 59,441

|reg. electors = 60,478

Elections in the 1990s

|reg. electors = 58,091 |reg. electors = 60,477

Elections in the 1980s

|reg. electors = 58,764 |reg. electors = 56,618

Notes

References

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