Denbigh (UK Parliament constituency)

For the 1542–1918 constituency, see Denbigh Boroughs (UK Parliament constituency).

Denbigh
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
Preserved county	Denbighshire
Major settlements	Denbigh
1918 (1918)–1983 (1983)
Replaced by	Clwyd North West and Clwyd South West
Created from	Denbigh Boroughs East Denbighshire West Denbighshire

Denbigh was a county constituency centred on the town of Denbigh in North Wales. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election.

Boundaries

This was a county division of Denbighshire. In 1918 it comprised the whole of the county, except for the Municipal Borough of Wrexham and part of the Chirk Rural District which formed the Wrexham division.

The local authorities in the Denbigh division were the Municipal Boroughs of Denbigh and Ruthin; the Urban Districts of Abergele and Pensarn, Colwyn Bay and Colwyn, Llangollen, and Llanrwst; as well as the Rural Districts of Llangollen, Llanrwst, Llansillin, Ruthin, St Asaph (Denbigh), Uwchaled, part of Chirk, and the part of Glan Conway not in Caernarvonshire.

The local authorities in Denbighshire were re-organised in 1935, but that did not affect the boundaries of the parliamentary constituency.

In the redistribution which took effect in 1950, the division was re-defined as comprising the Municipal Boroughs of Colwyn Bay, Denbigh, and Ruthin; the Urban Districts of Abergele, Llangollen, and Llanrwst; and the Rural Districts of Aled, Hiraethog, Ruthin, part of Ceiriog, and part of Wrexham. The same local authorities remained within the constituency in the 1974 redistribution.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Sir David Sanders Davies	Coalition Liberal
	1922	John Cledwyn Davies	National Liberal 1
	1923	Ellis William Davies	Liberal
	1929	Sir Henry Morris-Jones	Liberal
	1931		National Liberal 2
	1942		Independent
	1943		National Liberal 2
	1950	Emlyn Garner Evans	National Liberal 2
	1959	Geraint Morgan	Conservative
1983		constituency abolished

Notes:-

• ¹ A party, led by David Lloyd George, which succeeded the Coalition Liberals.
• ² A party allied with the Conservative Party.

Election results

See also

• Denbighshire (UK Parliament constituency) (abolished 1885)
• East Denbighshire (UK Parliament constituency) (1885–1918)
• West Denbighshire (UK Parliament constituency) (1885–1918)

References

• Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
• British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press, revised edition 1977)
• British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1983)
• British Parliamentary Election Results 1974-1983, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1984)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 1)