Ogmore (UK Parliament constituency)

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Ogmore County constituency
Ogmore shown within Wales
Created:	1918
MP:	Huw Irranca-Davies
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
Preserved county:	Mid Glamorgan
EP constituency:	Wales

Ogmore is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Boundaries 1.1 Trivia 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 3.1 Elections in the 1940s 3.2 Elections in the 2000s 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Trivia

Taking its name from the River Ogmore, the constituency excludes the villages of Ogmore and Ogmore-by-Sea.

[edit] Members of Parliament

• Constituency created (1918)

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Vernon Hartshorn	Labour
	1945	Edward Williams	Labour
	1946 by-election	John Evans	Labour
	1950	Walter Padley	Labour
	1979	Ray Powell	Labour
	2002 by-election	Huw Irranca-Davies	Labour

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 1940s

Ogmore by-election, 4th June 1946
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Evans	13,632	70.6	−5.8
	Plaid Cymru	T. R. Morgan	5,685	29.4	+23.8
Majority			7,947	41.2	−17.2
Turnout			19,317	75.6	−42.5
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2001: Ogmore
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ray Powell	18,833	62.0	-11.9
	Plaid Cymru	Angela Pulman	4,259	14.0	+7.0
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Lewis	3,878	12.8	+3.6
	Conservative	Richard Hill	3,383	11.1	+1.4
Majority			14,574	48.0
Turnout			30,353	58.2	-14.8
	Labour hold		Swing

Following the death of Sir Ray Powell on 7 December 2001 a by-election was held on 14 February 2002.

By-election 14 February, 2002: Ogmore
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Huw Irranca-Davies	9,548	52.0	-10.1
	Plaid Cymru	Bleddyn Hancock	3,827	20.8	+6.8
	Liberal Democrats	Veronica Watkins	1,608	8.8	-4.0
	Conservative	Guto Bebb	1,377	7.5	-3.7
	Socialist Labour	Christopher Herriot	1,152	6.3	+6.3
	Green	Jonathan Spink	250	1.4	n/a
	Socialist Alliance	Jeffrey Hurford	205	1.1	n/a
	Monster Raving Loony	Leslie Edwards	187	1.0	n/a
	New Millennium Bean Party	Captain Beany	122	0.7	n/a
	Independent	Rev David Braid	100	0.3	n/a
Majority			5,721	31.1	-16.9
Turnout			18,376	35.2	-23.0
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 2005: Ogmore
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Huw Irranca-Davies	18,295	60.4	-1.6
	Liberal Democrats	Jackie Radford	4,592	15.2	+2.4
	Conservative	Norma Lloyd-Nesling	4,243	14.0	+2.9
	Plaid Cymru	John Williams	3,148	10.4	-3.6
Majority			13,703	45.3
Turnout			30,278	57.8	-0.4
	Labour hold		Swing	-2.0

[edit] See also

• Ogmore by-election, 1946
• Ogmore by-election, 2002
• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Mid Glamorgan

[edit] References

• Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

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Liberal Democrat	Brecon and Radnorshire | Cardiff Central | Ceredigion | Montgomeryshire
Conservative	Clwyd West | Monmouth | Preseli Pembrokeshire
Plaid Cymru	Caernarfon | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | Meirionnydd Nant Conwy
Independent	Blaenau Gwent
Wales European constituency: Labour (2) | Conservative (1) | Plaid Cymru (1)