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Ynys Môn
County constituency
for the House of Commons

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Location of the constituency within Wales

Preserved countyGwynedd
Electorate52,415 (March 2020)[1]
Major settlementsHolyhead, Llangefni, Beaumaris, Amlwch
Current constituency
Created1536 (as Anglesey)
Member of ParliamentLlinos Medi (Plaid Cymru)
SeatsOne
Overlaps
SeneddYnys Môn, North Wales

Ynys Môn (Welsh pronunciation: [ˌənɨs ˈmoːn]; officially called Anglesey until 1983) is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It is one of five 'protected constituencies' within the UK, with boundaries defined by the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020 to be to those of Isle of Anglesey County Council where there must be a whole number of MPs rounded up to the nearest whole number with these boundaries.[2]

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

As of 2024, Ynys Môn is represented by Llinos Medi of Plaid Cymru.

Constituency profile

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The seat covers the isles of Anglesey and Holy Island. Incomes and house prices are slightly below average for the UK. Electoral Calculus describes the seat as "Traditionalist", characterised by socially conservative Labour-inclined voters with lower levels of income and formal education.[3]

The Laws in Wales Act 1535 (26 Hen. 8. c. 26) provided for a single county seat in the House of Commons for each of 12 historic Welsh counties (including Anglesey) 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 (as Members of Parliament from county constituencies were known before the 19th century) has been lost.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][excessive citations] It is not known if Anglesey was represented in the parliaments of 1536 and 1539.[14]

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.

Geographically, the constituency of Ynys Môn comprises the whole of the main island of Anglesey and the smaller Holy Island.[2]

The Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020 amends Schedule 2 to the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 in granting Ynys Môn "protected" status, meaning the island must have a whole number of constituencies exclusively within the boundaries of the island.

Members of Parliament

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Parliament Member
1545 William Bulkeley
1547 William Bulkeley
1549 Sir Richard Bulkeley (I)
1553 (Mar) Lewis Ab Owen ap Meurig
1553 (Oct) William Lewis
1554 (Apr) Sir Richard Bulkeley (I)
1554 (Nov) 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
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
1624 John Mostyn
1625 Sir Sackville Trevor
1626 Richard Bulkeley (IV)
1628 Richard Bulkeley (IV)
1639–1640 No Parliaments summoned

Short Parliament

Long Parliament

Anglesey was unrepresented in Barebone's Parliament

First Protectorate Parliament

Second Protectorate Parliament

Third Protectorate Parliament

Election Member Party
April 1660 The Viscount Bulkeley Court
1661 Nicholas Bagenal Court
February 1679 Hon. Henry Bulkeley Tory
August 1679 Hon. Richard Bulkeley Tory
1685 The Viscount Bulkeley Tory
1689 Hon. Thomas Bulkeley Tory
1690 The Viscount Bulkeley Tory
1704 The Viscount Bulkeley Tory
1715 Owen Meyrick Whig
1722 The Viscount Bulkeley Tory
1725 Hugh Williams Whig
1734 Sir Nicholas Bayly, Bt Opposition Whig
1741 John Owen Opposition Whig
1747 Sir Nicholas Bayly, Bt Opposition Whig
1761 Owen Meyrick Whig
1770 Sir Nicholas Bayly, Bt Opposition Whig
1774 The Viscount Bulkeley Opposition, later allied to Burke and later still to Pitt
1784 Nicholas Bayly Independent Whig, supported Pitt
1790 Hon. William Paget Whig, supported Pitt
1794 Hon. Sir Arthur Paget Whig[15]
1807 Hon. Berkeley Paget Whig[15]
1820 The Earl of Uxbridge Whig[15]
1832 Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, Bt Whig[15][16][17]
1837 Hon. William Stanley Whig[15][18]
1847 Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, Bt Whig[15][16][17]
1859 Liberal
1868 Richard Davies Liberal
1886 Thomas Lewis Liberal (Gladstonian)
1895 Ellis Ellis-Griffith Liberal
1918 Sir Owen Thomas Independent Labour
1923 Sir Robert Thomas, Bt Liberal
1929 Lady Megan Lloyd George Liberal
1931 Independent Liberal
1935 Liberal
1951 Cledwyn Hughes Labour
1979 Keith Best Conservative
1983 Name changed to Ynys Môn
1987 Ieuan Wyn Jones Plaid Cymru
2001 Albert Owen Labour
2019 Virginia Crosbie Conservative
2024 Llinos Medi Plaid Cymru
Election results since 1900

Elections in the 19th century

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Elections in the 1830s

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  • Caused by Williams-Bulkeley's resignation

Elections in the 1840s

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Elections in the 1850s

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Elections in the 1860s

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Elections in the 1870s

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Elections in the 1880s

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Elections in the 1890s

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Ellis Griffith

Elections in the 20th century

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Elections in the 1900s

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Ellis Griffith

Elections in the 1910s

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Owen Thomas

Elections in the 1920s

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Sir Robert Thomas

Elections in the 1930s

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Elections in the 1940s

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Elections in the 1950s

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Elections in the 1960s

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Elections in the 1970s

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Elections in the 1980s

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Elections in the 1990s

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Elections in the 21st century

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Elections in the 2000s

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Elections in the 2010s

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Of the 67 rejected ballots:

  • 51 were either unmarked or it was uncertain who the vote was for.[43]
  • 16 voted for more than one candidate.[43]

Of the 121 rejected ballots:

  • 96 were either unmarked or it was uncertain who the vote was for.[49]
  • 24 voted for more than one candidate.[49]
  • 1 had want of official mark.[49]

Elections in the 2020s

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