Mid and West Wales (National Assembly for Wales electoral region)

Mid and West Wales

Welsh Assembly electoral region
Mid and West Wales shown within Wales
Created 1999
Current representation
Plaid Cymru	5 AMs
Conservative	3 AMs
Welsh Labour Party	2 AMs
Liberal Democrats	2 AMs
Constituencies 1. Brecon and Radnorshire 2. Carmarthen East and Dinefwr 3. Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire 4. Ceredigion 5. Dwyfor Meirionnydd 6. Llanelli 7. Montgomeryshire 8. Preseli Pembrokeshire
Preserved counties Clwyd (part) Dyfed Gwynedd (part) Powys (part)

Mid and West Wales is an electoral region of the National Assembly for Wales, consisting of eight constituencies. The region elects twelve members, eight directly elected constituency members and four additional members. The electoral region was first used in the 1999 Welsh Assembly election, when the National 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 whole of the preserved county of Dyfed, most of the preserved county of Powys and parts of the preserved counties of Clwyd and Gwynedd. Other parts of Powys, Clwyd and Gwynedd were within the North Wales electoral region.

For the 2007 Welsh Assembly election, however boundaries changed, and the region now covers all of the preserved county of Dyfed, all of the preserved county of Powys and part of the preserved county of Gwynedd. The rest of Gwynedd is in the North Wales region.

The constituencies have the names and boundaries 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 geographically the largest of the five electoral regions in Wales, being larger in area than the other four regions combined. It consists almost entirely of sparsely populated rural areas, with the exception of the mining town of Llanelli in the south. The Welsh language is widely spoken.

Constituencies

Constituency	2011 Result		Preserved county
Brecon and Radnorshire		Kirsty Williams Liberal Democrats	Entirely within Powys
Carmarthen East and Dinefwr		Rhodri Glyn Thomas Plaid Cymru	Entirely within Dyfed
Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire		Angela Burns Conservative
Ceredigion		Elin Jones Plaid Cymru
Dwyfor Meirionnydd		Dafydd Elis-Thomas Plaid Cymru	Entirely within Gwynedd
Llanelli		Keith Davies Labour	Entirely within Dyfed
Montgomeryshire		Russell George Conservative	Entirely within Powys
Preseli Pembrokeshire		Paul Davies Conservative	Entirely within Dyfed

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
	Plaid Cymru	3	56,384 (26.7%)	4	1	4	0
	Conservative	3	52,905 (25.1%)	3	0	3	0
	Labour	1	47,348 (22.5%)	3	2	3	0
	Liberal Democrats	1	26,847 (12.7%)	2	1	2	0
	UKIP	0	9,711 (4.6%)	0	0	0	0
	Green	0	8,660 (4.1%)	0	0	0	0
	Socialist Labour	0	3,951 (1.9%)	0	0	0	0
	BNP	0	2,821 (1.3%)	0	0	0	0
	Welsh Christian	0	1,630 (0.8%)	0	0	0	0
	Communist	0	595 (0.3%)	0	0	0	0

Regional AMs elected 2011

Party		Name
	Plaid Cymru	Simon Thomas
	Labour	Rebecca Evans
	Liberal Democrat	William Powell
	Labour	Joyce Watson

2007 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
	Plaid Cymru	4	67,258 (31.0%)	5	1	5	0
	Conservative	2	49,606 (22.9%)	3	1	3	0
	Labour	0	39,979 (18.4%)	2	2	2	0
	Liberal Democrats	2	28,790 (13.3%)	2	0	2	0
	Green	0	8,768 (4.0%)	0	0	0	0
	UKIP	0	8,191 (3.8%)	0	0	0	0
	BNP	0	6,389 (2.9%)	0	0	0	0
	Socialist Labour	0	2,196 (1.0%)	0	0	0	0
	Independent	0	1,598 (0.7%)	0	0	0	0
	Welsh Christian	0	1,493 (0.7%)	0	0	0	0
	Independent	0	1,108 (0.5%)	0	0	0	0
	Communist	0	666 (0.3%)	0	0	0	0
	Veritas	0	502 (0.2%)	0	0	0	0
	Christian Peoples	0	413 (0.2%)	0	0	0	0

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Regional AMs elected 2007

Party		Name
	Conservative	Nick Bourne
	Labour	Alun Davies
	Plaid Cymru	Nerys Evans
	Labour	Joyce Watson

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
	Plaid Cymru	3	51,874 (28.16%)	4	1	4	0
	Labour	3	46,451 (25.22%)	3	0	3	0
	Conservative	0	35,566 (19.31%)	3	3	3	0
	Liberal Democrats	2	30,177 (16.38%)	2	0	2	0
	Green	0	7,794 (4.23%)	0	0	0	0
	UKIP	0	5,945 (3.23%)	0	0	0	0
	Mid & West Wales Pensioners	0	3,968 (2.15%)	0	0	0	0
	Cymru Annibynnol	0	1,324 (0.72%)	0	0	0	0
	Vote No 2 Stop the War	0	716 (0.39%)	0	0	0	0
	ProLife Alliance	0	383 (0.21%)	0	0	0	0

Former Constituencies

1999 to 2007

Constituency	Preserved counties
Brecon and Radnorshire	Entirely within Powys
Carmarthen East and Dinefwr	Entirely within Dyfed
Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
Ceredigion
Llanelli
Meirionnydd Nant Conwy	Partly Clwyd, partly Gwynedd
Montgomeryshire	Entirely within Powys
Preseli Pembrokeshire	Entirely within Dyfed

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
	Plaid Cymru	4	84,554 (38.55%)	5	1	5	0
	Labour	2	53,842 (24.55%)	3	1	3	0
	Conservative	0	36,622 (16.70%)	2	2	2	0
	Liberal Democrats	0	31,683 (14.44%)	0	0	0	0
	Green	0	7,718 (3.52%)	0	0	0	0
	Socialist Labour	0	3,019 (1.38%)	0	0	0	0
	Independent	0	1,214 (0.55%)	0	0	0	0
	Natural Law	0	705 (0.32%)	0	0	0	0

Notes

1. ^ BBC Election results
2. ^ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ass/constit/wr1.htm
3. ^ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ass/constit/wr1.htm