North Wales (National Assembly for Wales electoral region)

North Wales

Welsh Assembly electoral region
North Wales shown within Wales
Created 1999
Current representation
Welsh Labour Party	5 AMs
Conservative Party	4 AMs
Plaid Cymru	3 AMs
Liberal Democrats	1 AM
Constituencies 1. Aberconwy 2. Alyn and Deeside 3. Arfon 4. Clwyd South 5.Clwyd West 6. Delyn 7. Vale of Clwyd 8. Wrexham 9. Ynys Môn
Preserved counties Clwyd (part) Gwynedd (part) Powys (part)

North Wales is an electoral region of the National Assembly for Wales, consisting of nine constituencies. The region elects thirteen members, nine directly elected constituency members and four additional members. The electoral region was first used in the 1999 Welsh Assembly election, when the Assembly for Wales was created.

Each constituency elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post electoral system, and the region as a whole elects four additional or top-up Assembly Members, to create a degree of proportional representation. The additional member seats are allocated from closed lists by the d'Hondt method, with constituency results being taken into account in the allocation.

County and Westminster boundaries

As created in 1999, the region covered the most of the preserved county of Clwyd, part of the preserved county of Gwynedd, and part of the preserved county of Powys. Other parts of these preserved counties were within the Mid and West Wales electoral region. For the 2007 Welsh Assembly election, however, boundaries changed, and the region now covers all of the preserved county of Clwyd and part of the preserved county of Gwynedd. The rest of Gwynedd is in the Mid and West Wales region.

The Assembly constituencies have the names of constituencies of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster). For Westminster election purposes, however, there are no electoral regions, and constituency boundary changes became effective for the 2010 United Kingdom general election.

Electoral region profile

The region is a mix of rural and urban areas, with the population higher in the east, where can be found the region's largest town, Wrexham, and the working-class conurbations of Deeside. The western areas, including the Isle of Anglesey (Ynys Mon), are largely rural. Although Anglesey and Gwynedd are home to large numbers of Welsh speakers, the language is not widely spoken in the north-east.

Constituencies

Constituency	2011 Result		Preserved county
Aberconwy		Janet Finch-Saunders Conservative	Entirely within Clwyd
Alyn and Deeside		Carl Sargeant Labour
Arfon		Alun Ffred Jones Plaid Cymru	Entirely within Gwynedd
Clwyd South		Ken Skates Labour	Entirely within Clwyd
Clwyd West		Darren Millar Conservative
Delyn		Sandy Mewies Labour
Vale of Clwyd		Ann Jones Labour
Wrexham		Lesley Griffiths Labour
Ynys Môn		Ieuan Wyn Jones Plaid Cymru	Entirely within Gwynedd

2011 Welsh Assembly election additional members

Party		Constituency Seats	List Votes (vote %)	D'Hondt Entitlement	Additional Members Elected	Total Members Elected	Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement
	Labour	5	62,677 (32.2%)	5	0	5	0
	Conservative	2	52,201 (26.8%)	4	2	4	0
	Plaid Cymru	2	41,701 (21.4%)	3	1	3	0
	Liberal Democrats	0	11,507 (5.9%)	1	1	1	0
	UKIP	0	9,608 (4.9%)	0	0	0	0
	Socialist Labour	0	4,895 (2.5%)	0	0	0	0
	BNP	0	4,785 (2.5%)	0	0	0	0
	Green	0	4,406 (2.3%)	0	0	0	0
	Welsh Christian	0	1,401 (0.7%)	0	0	0	0
	Jason Weyman - Independent	0	1,094 (0.6%)	0	0	0	0
	Communist	0	523 (0.3%)	0	0	0	0

2007 Welsh Assembly election additional members^[1]

Party		Constituency Seats	List Votes (vote %)	D'Hondt Entitlement	Additional Members Elected	Total Members Elected	Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement
	Labour	5	51,831 (26.4%)	4	0	5	+1
	Plaid Cymru	3	50,558 (25.7%)	4	1	4	0
	Conservative	1	50,266 (25.6%)	4	2	3	-1
	Liberal Democrats	0	15,275 (7.8%)	1	1	1	0
	BNP	0	9,986 (5.1%)	0	0	0	0
	UKIP	0	8,015 (4.1%)	0	0	0	0
	Green	0	5,660 (2.9%)	0	0	0	0
	Socialist Labour	0	2,209 (1.1%)	0	0	0	0
	Welsh Christian	0	1,300 (0.7%)	0	0	0	0
	Communist	0	700 (0.4%)	0	0	0	0
	Christian Peoples	0	642 (0.3%)	0	0	0	0

2003 Welsh Assembly election additional members^[2]

Party		Constituency Seats	List Votes (vote %)	D'Hondt Entitlement	Additional Members Elected	Total Members Elected	Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement
	Labour	6	55,250 (31.57%)	6	0	6	0
	Plaid Cymru	2	41,640 (23.79%)	3	1	3	0
	Conservative	0	38,543 (22.02%)	2	2	2	0
	Liberal Democrats	0	17,503 (10.00%)	1	1	1	0
	Independent- John Marek	1	11,008 (6.29.%)	1	0	1	0
	UKIP	0	4,500 (2.57%)	0	0	0	0
	Green	0	4,200 (2.40%)	0	0	0	0
	Cymru Annibynnol	0	1,552 (0.89%)	0	0	0	0
	Communist	0	522 (0.30%)	0	0	0	0
	ProLife Alliance	0	310 (0.18%)	0	0	0	0

Former constituencies

1999 to 2007

Constituency	Preserved counties
Alyn and Deeside	Entirely within Clwyd
Caernarfon	Entirely within Gwynedd
Clwyd South	Partly Clwyd, partly Powys
Clwyd West	Entirely within Clwyd
Conwy	Partly Clwyd, partly Gwynedd
Delyn	Entirely within Clwyd
Vale of Clwyd
Wrexham
Ynys Môn	Entirely within Gwynedd

1999 Welsh Assembly election additional members^[3]

Party		Constituency Seats	List Votes (vote %)	D'Hondt Entitlement	Additional Members Elected	Total Members Elected	Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement
	Labour	7	70,625 (41.79%)	0	0	7	0
	Plaid Cymru	0	50,757 (30.04%)	2	2	2	0
	Conservative	0	20,993 (12.42%)	1	1	1	0
	Liberal Democrats	0	18,527 (10.96%)	1	1	1	0
	Green	0	4,082 (2.42%)	0	0	0	0
	People's Representative	0	2,074 (1.23%)	0	0	0	0
	Socialist Alliance	0	1,257 (0.74%)	0	0	0	0
	Natural Law	0	676 (0.40%)	0	0	0	0

References

1. ^ BBC Election results
2. ^ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ass/constit/wr2.htm
3. ^ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ass/constit/wr2.htm