Delyn (Assembly constituency)

Coordinates: 53°15′07″N 3°11′35″W / 53.252°N 3.193°W / 53.252; -3.193

Not to be confused with Delyn (UK Parliament constituency).

Delyn National Assembly for Wales county constituency
Delyn shown within the North Wales electoral region and the region shown within Wales
Created:	1999
AM:	Sandy Mewies
Party:	Labour
Preserved county:	Clwyd

Delyn is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of nine constituencies in the North Wales electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to nine constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

Boundaries

The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Delyn Westminster constituency. It is entirely within the preserved county of Clwyd.

As created in 1999, the North Wales region includes the constituencies of Alyn and Deeside, Caernarfon, Clwyd West, Clwyd South, Conwy, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn. For the 2007 election the region will include Aberconwy, Alyn and Deeside, Arfon, Clwyd South, Clwyd West, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn.

Voting

In elections for the National Assembly for Wales, each voter has two votes. The first vote may be used to vote for a candidate to become the Assembly Member for the voter's constituency, elected by the first past the post system. The second vote may be used to vote for a regional closed party list of candidates. Additional member seats are allocated from the lists by the d'Hondt method, with constituency results being taken into account in the allocation.

Assembly Members

Period		Member	Party
	1999 - 2003	Alison Halford	Labour Party
	2003 - present	Sandy Mewies	Labour Party

Elections

Assembly Election 2011: Delyn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sandy Mewies	10,695	46.1	+11.5
	Conservative	Matthew Wright	7,814	33.7	+1.4
	Plaid Cymru	Carrie Harper	2,918	12.6	-2.1
	Liberal Democrats	Michele Jones	1,767	7.6	-4.7
Majority			2,881	12.4
Turnout			23,194	43
	Labour hold		Swing

Assembly Election 2007: Delyn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sandy Mewies	7,507	34.6	-4.0
	Conservative	Antoinette Sandbach	6,996	32.3	+3.3
	Plaid Cymru	Meg Elis	3,179	14.7	-0.7
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Matthews	2,669	12.3	-4.7
	UKIP	Derek Bigg	1,318	6.1	+6.1
Majority			511	2.4
Turnout			21,669	41.1	+10.1
	Labour hold		Swing

Assembly Election 2003: Delyn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sandy Mewies	6,520	38.6	-6.1
	Conservative	Mark Isherwood	4,896	29.0	+7.0
	Liberal Democrats	David Lloyd	2,880	17.1	+4.1
	Plaid Cymru	Paul Rowlinson	2,588	15.3	-4.0
Majority			1,624	9.6	-13.1
Turnout			17,073	31.4	-13.0
	Labour hold		Swing

Assembly Election 1999: Delyn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alison Halford	10,672	44.7
	Conservative	Karen Lumley	5,255	22.0
	Plaid Cymru	Meg Elis	4,837	20.3
	Liberal Democrats	Eleanor Burnham	3,089	13.0
Majority			5,417	22.7
Turnout			23,853	44.2
	Labour win (new seat)

See also

• North Wales (National Assembly for Wales electoral region)
• National Assembly for Wales constituencies and electoral regions

References