Arfon (Assembly constituency)

Welsh Assembly constituency infobox
Name = Arfon
Type = county


Region = North Wales
Year = 2007
AM = Alun Ffred Jones
Party = Plaid Cymru
County= Gwynedd

Arfon is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales, created for the 2007 Assembly election. 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 has the boundaries of the Arfon Westminster constituency, entirely within the preserved county of Gwynedd, which will come into use, also, for the next United Kingdom general election. The new constituency merged together areas currently within the Caernarfon constituency and the Conwy constituency. The Caernarfon constituency was entirely within the preserved county of Gwynedd. The Conwy constituency was partly a Gwynedd constituency and partly within the preserved county of Clwyd.

The North Wales region was created for the first Assembly election, in 1999. For the 2007 election, however, it had new boundaries. It includes the constituencies of Aberconwy, Alyn and Deeside, Arfon, Clwyd South, Clwyd West, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn.

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: ArfonElection box candidate with party link
party = Plaid Cymru
candidate = Alun Ffred Jones
votes = 10,260
percentage = 52.4
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Martin Eaglestone
votes = 5,242
percentage = 26.8
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Gerry Frobisher
votes = 1,858
percentage = 9.5
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Mel ab Owain
votes = 1,424
percentage = 7.3
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = United Kingdom Independence Party
candidate = Elwyn Williams
votes = 789
percentage = 4.0
change = Election box majority
votes = 5,018
percentage = 25.6
change = Election box turnout
votes = 19,573
percentage = 49.1
change = Election box hold with party link
winner = Plaid Cymru
swing =