Dwyfor Meirionnydd (Assembly constituency)

Not to be confused with Dwyfor Meirionnydd (UK Parliament constituency).

Coordinates: 52°50′56″N 3°58′59″W / 52.849°N 3.983°W / 52.849; -3.983

Dwyfor Meirionnydd National Assembly for Wales county constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd shown within the Mid and West Wales electoral region and the region shown within Wales
Created:	2007
AM:	Dafydd Elis-Thomas
Party:	Plaid Cymru
Preserved county:	Gwynedd

Dwyfor Meirionnydd 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 eight constituencies in the Mid and West 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 shares the boundaries of the Dwyfor Meirionnydd Westminster constituency, which will come into use for the 2010 United Kingdom general election, created by merging into one constituency areas which were previously within the Caernarfon and Meirionnydd Nant Conwy constituencies.

Caernarfon is a Gwynedd constituency, entirely within the preserved county of Gwynedd, and one of nine constituencies in the North Wales region. Meirionnydd Nant Conwy was partly a Gwynedd constituency and partly a Clwyd constituency, partly within the preserved county of Gwynedd and partly within the preserved county of Clwyd, and one of eight constituencies in the Mid and West Wales electoral region.

Dwyfor Meirionnydd is a Gwynedd constituency, one of three constituencies entirely within the preserved county of Gwynedd, and one of eight constituencies in the Mid and West Wales electoral region. The other Gwynedd constituencies, however, Arfon and Ynys Môn, are within the North Wales electoral region.

The Mid and West Wales region consists of the constituencies of Brecon and Radnorshire, Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion, Dwyfor Meirionnydd, Llanelli, Montgomeryshire and Preseli Pembrokeshire.

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

It has been represented since its creation by Dafydd Elis-Thomas. He has been the Presiding Officer of the Assembly since 1999, and previously represented the former constituency of Meirionnydd Nant Conwy from 1999 to 2007.

Period		Member	Party
	2007 to present	Dafydd Elis-Thomas	Plaid Cymru

Elections

Assembly Election 2011: Dwyfor Meirionnydd
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Dafydd Elis-Thomas	9,656	46.6	-13.1
	Conservative	Simon Baynes	4,239	20.4	+0.8
	Llais Gwynedd	Louise Hughes	3,225	15.5	N/A
	Labour	Martyn Singleton	2,623	12.6	+0.2
	Liberal Democrats	Steve Churchman	1,000	4.8	-3.5
Majority			5,417	26.1	-14
Turnout			20,743	46.3	-1.1
	Plaid Cymru hold		Swing	-7.0

Assembly Election 2007: Dwyfor Meirionnydd
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Dafydd Elis-Thomas	13,201	59.7	+2.3
	Conservative	Mike Wood	4,333	19.6	+5.5
	Labour	David Phillips	2,749	12.4	-9.1
	Liberal Democrats	Steve Churchman	1,839	8.3	+1.3
Majority			8,868	40.1
Turnout			22,122	47.4	+3.4
	Plaid Cymru hold		Swing

References