With regard to the Vale of Clwyd, it was a more remarkable and unexpected result than Gower.
In Gower, the former Labour MP Martin Caton stood down.
In the Vale of Clwyd, Chris Ruane was a well-liked former headmaster of a school in the constituency. He had however a spot of expenses bother in 2012 (“I have acted completely within the rules”). Maybe that is what did for him, as these North Walian constituencies are usually very loyal.
I had thought the seat was Labour’s till Ruane retired.
Labour had always held Gower, part of the Vale of Clwyd used to be a Tory seat
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