Cynon Valley
2010 Results:
Conservative: 3010 (10.07%)
Labour: 15681 (52.49%)
Liberal Democrat: 4120 (13.79%)
Plaid Cymru: 6064 (20.3%)
UKIP: 1001 (3.35%)
Majority: 9617 (32.19%)
Notional 2005 Results:
Labour: 18370 (63%)
Plaid Cymru: 3941 (13.5%)
Liberal Democrat: 3728 (12.8%)
Conservative: 2330 (8%)
Other: 785 (2.7%)
Majority: 14429 (49.5%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 2062 (7.7%)
Labour: 17074 (64.1%)
Liberal Democrat: 2991 (11.2%)
Plaid Cymru: 3815 (14.3%)
UKIP: 705 (2.6%)
Majority: 13259 (49.8%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 2045 (7.6%)
Labour: 17685 (65.6%)
Liberal Democrat: 2541 (9.4%)
Plaid Cymru: 4687 (17.4%)
Majority: 12998 (48.2%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 2262 (6.8%)
Labour: 23307 (69.7%)
Liberal Democrat: 3459 (10.3%)
Plaid Cymru: 3552 (10.6%)
Referendum: 844 (2.5%)
Majority: 19755 (59.1%)
Boundary changes:
Profile:
Current MP: Ann Clwyd(Labour) (more information at They work for you)
Juliette Ash (Conservative)Ann Clwyd(Labour) (more information at They work for you)Lee Thacker (Liberal Democrat) 
Dafydd Trystan Davies (Plaid Cymru) born 1974, Aberdare. Educated at Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen and Aberysterwyth University. Former university lecturer, now development manager for Welsh higher education. Frank Hughes (UKIP)2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 69295
Male: 48.2%
Female: 51.8%
Under 18: 24.3%
Over 60: 21.9%
Born outside UK: 1.7%
White: 98.9%
Asian: 0.4%
Mixed: 0.4%
Other: 0.2%
Christian: 69.3%
Full time students: 2.5%
Graduates 16-74: 11.9%
No Qualifications 16-74: 42.6%
Owner-Occupied: 72.4%
Social Housing: 17.5% (Council: 12.7%, Housing Ass.: 4.8%)
Privately Rented: 6.4%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 5.2%
Does anyone have a view on why it seems the boundary commission are going out of their way to come up with absurd or inappropriate names for the new constituencies?
I see the proposed seat for this area is to be called the Heads of the Valley. Up in north Wales we have the North Wales Coast. What is essentially Carmarthenshire is given some unpronouncable new name, as is the new Ynys Mon and Bangor constituency. We have South Powys despite it covering almost the whole of the (very very large) Powys area. And South and West Pembrokeshire when there must surely be a more appropriate and easy name that could be used like South West Pembrokeshire or just Pembrokeshire (does it really matter that the north of that county is not in the seat?)
And that’s just some of the Welsh seats. There appears to be a similar trend in parts of the English proposals as well. The commission seem to have taken the revised rules as an opportunity to create simply unnecessarily stupid constituencies.
This is a funny clip from the Commons involving Mrs Clwyd, if anyone hasn’t seen it:
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19592996
Obviously, I’ve removed the www. prefix to avoid the moderators.