Brecon and Radnorshire

The constituency was created in the boundary changes of 1918 by merging Breconshire and Radnorshire, both previously constituencies in their own right. As part of the third periodic review of Westminster constituencies there were changes to the boundaries in 1983, when the constituency lost several small areas in the south. While historically having been held by the Labour Party for forty years, the constituency was captured from the Conservative government by the SDP–Liberal Alliance at a dramatic by-election in 1985. It was regained by the Conservatives in 1992, taken back by the Liberal Democrats in 1997, and then returned to the Conservatives in 2015. It was the Conservatives' fifteenth…