Cardiff West (Assembly constituency)

Welsh Assembly constituency infobox
Name = Cardiff West
Type = borough


Region = South Wales Central
Year = 1999
AM = Rhodri Morgan
Party = Wales Labour Party
County= South Glamorgan

Cardiff West 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 eight constituencies in the South Wales Central electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to eight 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 Cardiff West Westminster constituency. It is entirely within the preserved county of South Glamorgan.

The other seven constituencies of the region are Cardiff Central, Cardiff North, Cardiff South and Penarth, Cynon Valley, Pontypridd, Rhondda and Vale of Glamorgan.

Voting

In general 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

Elections

Election box begin
title=Assembly Election 2007: Cardiff WestElection box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Rhodri Morgan
votes = 10,390
percentage = 38.6
change = -10.4Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Craig Williams
votes = 6,692
percentage = 24.9
change = +7.1Election box candidate with party link
party = Plaid Cymru
candidate = Neil McEvoy
votes = 5,719
percentage = 21.3
change = +5.8Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Alison Goldsworthy
votes = 4,088
percentage = 15.2
change = +1.6Election box majority
votes = 3,698
percentage = 13.8
change = -17.5Election box turnout
votes = 26,889
percentage = 41.6
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Labour Party (UK)
swing =

Election box begin
title=Assembly Election 2003: Cardiff WestElection box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Rhodri Morgan
votes = 10,420
percentage = 50.3
change = -11.3Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Heather Douglas
votes = 3,583
percentage = 17.3
change = +2.5Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Jaqueline-Anne Gasson
votes = 2,914
percentage = 14.1
change = +5.2Election box candidate with party link
party = Plaid Cymru
candidate = Eluned Bush
votes = 2,859
percentage = 13.8
change = -0.8Election box candidate with party link
party = United Kingdom Independence Party
candidate = Frank Hughes
votes = 929
percentage = 4.5
change = +4.5Election box majority
votes = 6,837
percentage = 33.0
change = -13.8Election box turnout
votes = 21,413
percentage = 35.4
change = -5.1Election box hold with party link
winner = Labour Party (UK)
swing =

Election box begin
title=Assembly Election 1999: Cardiff WestElection box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Rhodri Morgan
votes = 14,305
percentage = 61.6
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Myr Boult
votes = 3,446
percentage = 14.8
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Plaid Cymru
candidate = Eluned Bush
votes = 3,402
percentage = 14.7
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Dewi Garrow-Smith
votes = 2,063
percentage = 8.9
change = Election box majority
votes = 10,859
percentage = 46.8
change = Election box turnout
votes = 23,216
percentage = 40.3
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Labour Party (UK)
swing =