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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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9 June 1983		43,139/60,153	71.72
Edward Rowlands	Labour Party	29,053	67.35
Philip Clive Owen	Liberal Party in Alliance	6,323	14.66
Richard Blauston	Conservative & Unionist Party	5,449	12.63
Gerald Howells	Plaid Cymru	2,058	4.77
Royden Travis Gould	Workers Revolutionary Party	256	0.59
Majority		22,730	52.69

11 June 1987		44,328/58,886	75.28
Edward Rowlands	Labour Party	33,400	75.35
Nicholas McIndoe Walters	Conservative & Unionist Party	5,270	11.89
Prabhat Kumar Verma	Liberal Party in Alliance	3,573	8.06
Janet Marion Davies	Plaid Cymru	2,085	4.70
Majority		28,130	63.46

9 April 1992		44,315/58,430	75.84
Edward Rowlands	Labour Party	31,710	71.56
Robyn Patrick Joseph Rowland	Liberal Democrats	4,997	11.28
Mark James Hughes	Conservative & Unionist Party	4,904	11.07
Alun Geraint Cox	Plaid Cymru	2,704	6.10
Majority		26,713	60.28

1 May 1997		39,141/56,507	69.27
Edward Rowlands	Labour Party	30,012	76.68
Duncan Josef Anstey	Liberal Democrats	2,926	7.48
Jonathan Barrie Robert Winston Morgan	Conservative & Unionist Party	2,508	6.41
Alun Geraint Cox	Plaid Cymru	2,344	5.99
Alan Brian Cowdell	Independent Labour	691	1.77
Ronald William Hutchings	Referendum Party	660	1.69
Majority		27,086	69.20

Alan Cowdell sought election as an Old Labour candidate.

7 June 2001		31,684/55,368	57.22
David Stewart Havard	Labour Party	19,574	61.78
Robert Hughes	Plaid Cymru	4,651	14.68
Simon Keith Rogers	Liberal Democrats	2,385	7.53
Richard Andrew Cuming	Conservative & Unionist Party	2,272	7.17
Jeffrey Edwards	Independent	1,936	6.11
Kenneth Evans	Socialist Labour	692	2.18
Anthony Lewis	Pro-Life Alliance	174	0.55
Majority		14,923	47.10

Jeffrey Edwards opposed the continued use of a local waste tip as well as extensive open case mining.

5 May 2005		29,976/54,579	54.92
David Stewart Havard	Labour Party	18,129	60.48
Ceirion James Rees	Liberal Democrats	4,195	13.99
Noel Geoffrey Turner	Plaid Cymru	2,972	9.91
Roger Michael Harvey Berry	Conservative & Unionist Party	2,680	8.94
Neil Greer	Forward Wales	1,030	3.44
William Gwyn Parry	UK Independence Party	699	2.33
Morfudd Rosina Marsden	Socialist Labour	271	0.90
Majority		13,934	46.48

6 May 2010		32,076/52,558	61.03
David Stewart Havard	Labour Party	14,007	43.67
Amy Elizabeth Kitcher	Liberal Democrats	9,951	31.02
Maria Hill	Conservative & Unionist Party	2,412	7.52
Clive Tovey	Independent	1,845	5.75
Glyndwr Cennydd Jones	Plaid Cymru	1,621	5.05
Richard Barnes	British National Party	1,173	3.66
Adam Brown	UK Independence Party	872	2.72
Alan Brian Cowdell	Socialist Labour	195	0.61
Majority		4,056	12.64

7 May 2015		32,715/54,715	59.79
Gerald Jones	Labour Party	17,619	53.86
David John Rowlands	UK Independence Party	6,106	18.66
Bill Rees	Conservative & Unionist Party	3,292	10.06
Rhayna Bethan Mann	Plaid Cymru	3,099	9.47
Robert Louis Griffin	Liberal Democrats	1,351	4.13
Elspeth Madeleine Parris	Green Party	603	1.84
Eddy Blanche	Independent	459	1.40
Robert David Griffiths	Communist Party of Great Britain	186	0.57
Majority		11,513	35.19

8 June 2017		33,545/55,463	60.48
Gerald Jones	Labour Party	22,407	66.80
Pauline Alison Jorgensen	Conservative & Unionist Party	6,073	18.10
Amy Elizabeth Kitcher	Plaid Cymru	2,740	8.17
David John Rowlands	UK Independence Party	1,484	4.42
Robert Louis Griffin	Liberal Democrats	841	2.51
Majority		16,334	48.69

12 December 2019		32,246/56,322	57.25
Gerald Jones	Labour Party	16,913	52.45
Sara Louise Jones	Conservative & Unionist Party	6,307	19.56
Colin David Jones	Brexit Party	3,604	11.18
Mark John Evans	Plaid Cymru	2,446	7.59
David Hughes	Independent	1,860	5.77
Brendan Thomas D'Cruz	Liberal Democrats	1,116	3.46
Majority		10,606	32.89