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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Renamed with no Boundary Change
28 February 1974		44,923/53,878	83.38
Caerwyn Eifion Roderick	Labour Party	18,180	40.47
Lloyd Harvard-Davies	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,903	35.40
Dr Noel Kennedy Thomas	Liberal Party	8,741	19.46
Dafydd Noel Gittins	Plaid Cymru	2,099	4.67
Majority		2,277	5.07

10 October 1974		44,214/54,288	81.44
Caerwyn Eifion Roderick	Labour Party	18,622	42.12
Lloyd Harvard-Davies	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,610	35.31
Dr Noel Kennedy Thomas	Liberal Party	7,682	17.37
Dafydd Noel Gittins	Plaid Cymru	2,300	5.20
Majority		3,012	6.81

3 May 1979		47,978/56,975	84.21
Tom Ellis Hooson	Conservative & Unionist Party	22,660	47.23
Caerwyn Eifion Roderick	Labour Party	19,633	40.92
Norman Harry Evans Lewis	Liberal Party	4,654	9.70
Janet Rosemary Power	Plaid Cymru	1,031	2.15
Majority		3,027	6.31

Major Boundary Change
9 June 1983		37,870/47,817	79.20
Tom Ellis Hooson	Conservative & Unionist Party	18,255	48.20
David Richard Morris	Labour Party	9,471	25.01
Richard Arthur Lloyd Livsey	Liberal Party in Alliance	9,226	24.36
Sian Rosemary Meredudd	Plaid Cymru	640	1.69
Richard George William Pitt Booth	Independent	278	0.73
Majority		8,784	23.20

Richard Booth sought election as a "Rural Revival" candidate. He was a well-known bookseller in Hay-on-Wye, and advocated a policy of a return to agraraianism.

8 May 1985 Death of Tom Hooson.

4 July 1985		38,372/48,371	79.33
Richard Arthur Lloyd Livsey	Liberal Party in Alliance	13,753	35.84
Frederick Richard Willey	Labour Party	13,194	34.38
Christopher John Butler	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,631	27.71
Janet Marion Davies	Plaid Cymru	435	1.13
David Edward Sutch	Monster Raving Loony Party	202	0.53
Roger Joseph Everest	Independent Conservative	154	0.40
Andre Charles Leopold Genillard	Independent	3	0.01
Majority		559	1.46

A Genillard sought election as a "Free the World from Multiple Sclerosis" candidate.

Roger Everest sought election as a "One Nation Conservative" candidate.

11 June 1987		41,677/49,952	83.43
Richard Arthur Lloyd Livsey	Liberal Party in Alliance	14,509	34.81
Jonathan Peter Evans	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,453	34.68
Frederick Richard Willey	Labour Party	12,180	29.22
John Hamilton Davies	Plaid Cymru	535	1.28
Majority		56	0.13

9 April 1992		44,269/51,509	85.94
Jonathan Peter Evans	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,977	36.09
Richard Arthur Lloyd Livsey	Liberal Democrats	15,847	35.80
Christopher John Mann	Labour Party	11,634	26.28
Sian Rosemary Meredudd	Plaid Cymru	418	0.94
Hugh Wynn Richards	Green Party	393	0.89
Majority		130	0.29