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Mid and West Wales (National Assembly for Wales constituency)
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| Mid and West Wales shown within Wales Wales Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²... |
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| Plaid Cymru Plaid Cymru ' is a political party in Wales. It advocates the establishment of an independent Welsh state within the European Union. was formed in 1925 and won its first seat in 1966... |
5 AMs |
| Conservative Welsh Conservative Party The Welsh Conservatives & Unionists , informally the Welsh Conservatives or Welsh Tories, are the part of the Conservative Party which operates in Wales... |
3 AMs |
| Welsh Labour Party | 2 AMs |
| Liberal Democrats Welsh Liberal Democrats The Welsh Liberal Democrats are one of the three state parties of the federal Liberal Democrats and operate within Wales, the others being the Scottish Liberal Democrats and the Liberal Democrats in England.... |
2 AMs |
| Constituencies United Kingdom constituencies In the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly.Within the United Kingdom there are now five bodies with members elected by constituencies:... 1. Brecon and Radnorshire Brecon and Radnorshire (Assembly constituency) Brecon and Radnorshire is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election... 2. Carmarthen East and Dinefwr Carmarthen East and Dinefwr (Assembly constituency) Carmarthen East and Dinefwr is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election... 3. Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire (Assembly constituency) Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election... 4. Ceredigion Ceredigion (Assembly constituency) Ceredigion is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election... 5. Dwyfor Meirionnydd Dwyfor Meirionnydd (Assembly constituency) 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... 6. Llanelli Llanelli (Assembly constituency) Llanelli 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 Mid and West Wales electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to eight... 7. Montgomeryshire Montgomeryshire (Assembly constituency) Montgomeryshire is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election... 8. Preseli Pembrokeshire Preseli Pembrokeshire (Assembly constituency) Preseli Pembrokeshire is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election... |
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| Preserved counties Preserved counties of Wales The preserved counties of Wales are the current areas used in Wales for the ceremonial purposes of Lieutenancy and Shrievalty. They are based on the counties created by the Local Government Act 1972 and used for local government and other purposes between 1974 and 1996.-Usage:The Local Government ... Clwyd Clwyd Clwyd is a preserved county of Wales, situated in the north-east, bordering England with Cheshire to its east, Shropshire to the south-east, and the Welsh counties of Gwynedd to its immediate west and Powys to the south. It additionally shares a maritime border with the metropolitan county of... (part) Dyfed Dyfed Dyfed is a preserved county of Wales. It was created on 1 April 1974 under the terms of the Local Government Act 1972, and covered approximately the same geographic extent as the ancient Principality of Deheubarth, although excluding the Gower Peninsula and the area west of the River Tawe... Gwynedd Gwynedd Gwynedd is a county in north-west Wales, named after the old Kingdom of Gwynedd. Although the second biggest in terms of geographical area, it is also one of the most sparsely populated... (part) Powys Powys Powys is a local-government county and preserved county in Wales.-Geography:Powys covers the historic counties of Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire, most of Brecknockshire , and a small part of Denbighshire — an area of 5,179 km², making it the largest county in Wales by land area.It is... (part) |
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Mid and West Wales is an electoral region of the National Assembly for Wales
National Assembly for Wales
The National Assembly for Wales is a devolved assembly with power to make legislation in Wales. The Assembly comprises 60 members, who are known as Assembly Members, or AMs...
, consisting of eight constituencies
United Kingdom constituencies
In the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly.Within the United Kingdom there are now five bodies with members elected by constituencies:...
. The region elects twelve members, eight directly elected constituency members and four additional members
Mixed member proportional representation
Mixed-member proportional representation, also termed mixed-member proportional voting and commonly abbreviated to MMP, is a voting system originally used to elect representatives to the German Bundestag, and nowadays adopted by numerous legislatures around the world...
. The electoral region was first used in the 1999 Welsh Assembly election
Welsh Assembly election, 1999
The first National Assembly for Wales elections were held on 6 May 1999. The overall turnout of voters was 46.3%. Although the Welsh Labour Party were the biggest party, they did not gain enough seats to form a majority government and instead entered into coalition with the Liberal Democrats...
, 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
Proportional representation
Proportional representation is a concept in voting systems used to elect an assembly or council. PR means that the number of seats won by a party or group of candidates is proportionate to the number of votes received. For example, under a PR voting system if 30% of voters support a particular...
. The additional member seats are allocated from closed list
Closed list
Closed list describes the variant of party-list proportional representation where voters can only vote for political parties as a whole and thus have no influence on the party-supplied order in which party candidates are elected...
s by the d'Hondt method
D'Hondt method
The d'Hondt method is a highest averages method for allocating seats in party-list proportional representation. The method described is named after Belgian mathematician Victor D'Hondt who described it in 1878...
, 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 countyPreserved counties of Wales
The preserved counties of Wales are the current areas used in Wales for the ceremonial purposes of Lieutenancy and Shrievalty. They are based on the counties created by the Local Government Act 1972 and used for local government and other purposes between 1974 and 1996.-Usage:The Local Government ...
of Dyfed
Dyfed
Dyfed is a preserved county of Wales. It was created on 1 April 1974 under the terms of the Local Government Act 1972, and covered approximately the same geographic extent as the ancient Principality of Deheubarth, although excluding the Gower Peninsula and the area west of the River Tawe...
, most of the preserved county of Powys
Powys
Powys is a local-government county and preserved county in Wales.-Geography:Powys covers the historic counties of Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire, most of Brecknockshire , and a small part of Denbighshire — an area of 5,179 km², making it the largest county in Wales by land area.It is...
and parts of the preserved counties of Clwyd
Clwyd
Clwyd is a preserved county of Wales, situated in the north-east, bordering England with Cheshire to its east, Shropshire to the south-east, and the Welsh counties of Gwynedd to its immediate west and Powys to the south. It additionally shares a maritime border with the metropolitan county of...
and Gwynedd
Gwynedd
Gwynedd is a county in north-west Wales, named after the old Kingdom of Gwynedd. Although the second biggest in terms of geographical area, it is also one of the most sparsely populated...
. 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
Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom, British Crown dependencies and British overseas territories, located in London...
(Westminster
Palace of Westminster
The Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, is the meeting place of the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom—the House of Lords and the House of Commons...
). 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 LlanelliLlanelli
Llanelli , the largest town in both the county of Carmarthenshire and the preserved county of Dyfed , Wales, sits on the Loughor estuary on the West Wales coast, approximately west-north-west of Swansea and south-east of the county town, Carmarthen. The town is famous for its proud rugby...
in the south. The Welsh language
Welsh language
Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...
is widely spoken.
Constituencies
| Constituency | 2011 Result National Assembly for Wales election, 2011 The National Assembly for Wales election 2011 was the most recent election for the National Assembly. The poll was held on Thursday, 5 May 2011 and decided the incumbency for all the assembly's seats... |
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| Brecon and Radnorshire Brecon and Radnorshire (Assembly constituency) Brecon and Radnorshire is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election... |
Kirsty Williams Kirsty Williams Victoria Kirsty Williams is a British politician. She is the leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats and the Member of the Welsh Assembly for Brecon and Radnorshire.-Early life:... Liberal Democrats Liberal Democrats The Liberal Democrats are a social liberal political party in the United Kingdom which supports constitutional and electoral reform, progressive taxation, wealth taxation, human rights laws, cultural liberalism, banking reform and civil liberties .The party was formed in 1988 by a merger of the... |
Entirely within Powys Powys Powys is a local-government county and preserved county in Wales.-Geography:Powys covers the historic counties of Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire, most of Brecknockshire , and a small part of Denbighshire — an area of 5,179 km², making it the largest county in Wales by land area.It is... |
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| Carmarthen East and Dinefwr Carmarthen East and Dinefwr (Assembly constituency) Carmarthen East and Dinefwr is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election... |
Rhodri Glyn Thomas Rhodri Glyn Thomas Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM is a Welsh politician. He has been the Plaid Cymru National Assembly for Wales Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr since 1999.-Education:... Plaid Cymru Plaid Cymru ' is a political party in Wales. It advocates the establishment of an independent Welsh state within the European Union. was formed in 1925 and won its first seat in 1966... |
Entirely within Dyfed Dyfed Dyfed is a preserved county of Wales. It was created on 1 April 1974 under the terms of the Local Government Act 1972, and covered approximately the same geographic extent as the ancient Principality of Deheubarth, although excluding the Gower Peninsula and the area west of the River Tawe... |
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| Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire (Assembly constituency) Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election... |
Angela Burns Angela Burns Angela Burns is a British businesswoman and politician who was elected as Conservative member for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire to the National Assembly for Wales in May 2007.-Background:... Conservative Welsh Conservative Party The Welsh Conservatives & Unionists , informally the Welsh Conservatives or Welsh Tories, are the part of the Conservative Party which operates in Wales... |
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| Ceredigion Ceredigion (Assembly constituency) Ceredigion is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election... |
Elin Jones Elin Jones Elin Jones AM , is a Welsh politician, born in Lampeter, Wales, who has represented Ceredigion for Plaid Cymru as a Member of the National Assembly for Wales since 1999.-Background:... Plaid Cymru |
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| Dwyfor Meirionnydd Dwyfor Meirionnydd (Assembly constituency) 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... |
Dafydd Elis-Thomas Plaid Cymru |
Entirely within Gwynedd Gwynedd Gwynedd is a county in north-west Wales, named after the old Kingdom of Gwynedd. Although the second biggest in terms of geographical area, it is also one of the most sparsely populated... |
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| Llanelli Llanelli (Assembly constituency) Llanelli 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 Mid and West Wales electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to eight... |
Keith Davies Labour |
Entirely within Dyfed Dyfed Dyfed is a preserved county of Wales. It was created on 1 April 1974 under the terms of the Local Government Act 1972, and covered approximately the same geographic extent as the ancient Principality of Deheubarth, although excluding the Gower Peninsula and the area west of the River Tawe... |
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| Montgomeryshire Montgomeryshire (Assembly constituency) Montgomeryshire is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election... |
Russell George Russell George Russell Ian George is a Conservative Party politician and was elected as the Montgomeryshire Assembly Member in the National Assembly for Wales at the May 2011 election.-Background:Russell was born in Welshpool and brought up in Montgomeryshire... Conservative |
Entirely within Powys Powys Powys is a local-government county and preserved county in Wales.-Geography:Powys covers the historic counties of Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire, most of Brecknockshire , and a small part of Denbighshire — an area of 5,179 km², making it the largest county in Wales by land area.It is... |
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| Preseli Pembrokeshire Preseli Pembrokeshire (Assembly constituency) Preseli Pembrokeshire is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election... |
Paul Davies Paul Davies (Welsh politician) Paul Windsor Davies is a Welsh Conservative politician. He was elected in May 2007 to the National Assembly for Wales representing the constituency of Preseli Pembrokeshire, gaining the seat from Labour. He was re-elected in May 2011. -Background:... Conservative |
Entirely within Dyfed Dyfed Dyfed is a preserved county of Wales. It was created on 1 April 1974 under the terms of the Local Government Act 1972, and covered approximately the same geographic extent as the ancient Principality of Deheubarth, although excluding the Gower Peninsula and the area west of the River Tawe... |
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2011 Welsh Assembly election additional membersNational Assembly for Wales election, 2011The National Assembly for Wales election 2011 was the most recent election for the National Assembly. The poll was held on Thursday, 5 May 2011 and decided the incumbency for all the assembly's seats...
| Party | Constituency Seats | List Votes (vote %) | D'Hondt Entitlement D'Hondt method The d'Hondt method is a highest averages method for allocating seats in party-list proportional representation. The method described is named after Belgian mathematician Victor D'Hondt who described it in 1878... | Additional Members Elected | Total Members Elected | Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement | |
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| Plaid Cymru ' is a political party in Wales. It advocates the establishment of an independent Welsh state within the European Union. was formed in 1925 and won its first seat in 1966... |
3 | 56,384 (26.7%) | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | |
| Welsh Conservative Party The Welsh Conservatives & Unionists , informally the Welsh Conservatives or Welsh Tories, are the part of the Conservative Party which operates in Wales... |
3 | 52,905 (25.1%) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| 1 | 47,348 (22.5%) | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Welsh Liberal Democrats The Welsh Liberal Democrats are one of the three state parties of the federal Liberal Democrats and operate within Wales, the others being the Scottish Liberal Democrats and the Liberal Democrats in England.... |
1 | 26,847 (12.7%) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | |
| United Kingdom Independence Party The United Kingdom Independence Party is a eurosceptic and right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. Whilst its primary goal is the UK's withdrawal from the European Union, the party has expanded beyond its single-issue image to develop a more comprehensive party platform.UKIP... |
0 | 9,711 (4.6%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Green Party of England and Wales The Green Party of England and Wales is a political party in England and Wales which follows the traditions of Green politics and maintains a strong commitment to social progressivism. It is the largest Green party in the United Kingdom, containing within it various regional divisions including... |
0 | 8,660 (4.1%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Socialist Labour Party (UK) The Socialist Labour Party is a far left socialist political party in the United Kingdom. The party is led by former trade union leader Arthur Scargill, who established it in 1996 as a breakaway from the Labour Party... |
0 | 3,951 (1.9%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| British National Party The British National Party is a British far-right political party formed as a splinter group from the National Front by John Tyndall in 1982... |
0 | 2,821 (1.3%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 0 | 1,630 (0.8%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Communist Party of Britain The Communist Party of Britain is a communist political party in Great Britain. Although founded in 1988 it traces its origins back to 1920 and the Communist Party of Great Britain, and claims the legacy of that party and its most influential members Harry Pollitt and John Gollan as its... |
0 | 595 (0.3%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Regional AMs elected 2011
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| Plaid Cymru ' is a political party in Wales. It advocates the establishment of an independent Welsh state within the European Union. was formed in 1925 and won its first seat in 1966... |
Simon Thomas | |
| Rebecca Evans | ||
| Liberal Democrats The Liberal Democrats are a social liberal political party in the United Kingdom which supports constitutional and electoral reform, progressive taxation, wealth taxation, human rights laws, cultural liberalism, banking reform and civil liberties .The party was formed in 1988 by a merger of the... |
William Powell William Powell (Welsh politician) William Powell is a Liberal Democrat politician and a member of the National Assembly of Wales for Mid and West Wales. In 1999 he stood for the pro European Conservatives in the European election in Wales but joined the Liberal Democrats shortly afterwards... |
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| Joyce Watson Joyce Watson Joyce Watson, born 1955, is a Welsh Labour politician who has been a Member of the National Assembly for Wales for Mid and West Wales since 2007.-Career:... |
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2007 Welsh Assembly election additional membersNational Assembly for Wales election, 2007The 2007 National Assembly election was held on Thursday 3 May 2007 to elect members to the National Assembly for Wales. It was the third general election. On the same day local elections in England and Scotland, and the Scottish Parliament election took place...
| Party | Constituency Seats | List Votes (vote %) | D'Hondt Entitlement D'Hondt method The d'Hondt method is a highest averages method for allocating seats in party-list proportional representation. The method described is named after Belgian mathematician Victor D'Hondt who described it in 1878... | Additional Members Elected | Total Members Elected | Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement | |
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| Plaid Cymru ' is a political party in Wales. It advocates the establishment of an independent Welsh state within the European Union. was formed in 1925 and won its first seat in 1966... |
4 | 67,258 (31.0%) | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | |
| Welsh Conservative Party The Welsh Conservatives & Unionists , informally the Welsh Conservatives or Welsh Tories, are the part of the Conservative Party which operates in Wales... |
2 | 49,606 (22.9%) | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | |
| 0 | 39,979 (18.4%) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Welsh Liberal Democrats The Welsh Liberal Democrats are one of the three state parties of the federal Liberal Democrats and operate within Wales, the others being the Scottish Liberal Democrats and the Liberal Democrats in England.... |
2 | 28,790 (13.3%) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Green Party of England and Wales The Green Party of England and Wales is a political party in England and Wales which follows the traditions of Green politics and maintains a strong commitment to social progressivism. It is the largest Green party in the United Kingdom, containing within it various regional divisions including... |
0 | 8,768 (4.0%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| United Kingdom Independence Party The United Kingdom Independence Party is a eurosceptic and right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. Whilst its primary goal is the UK's withdrawal from the European Union, the party has expanded beyond its single-issue image to develop a more comprehensive party platform.UKIP... |
0 | 8,191 (3.8%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| British National Party The British National Party is a British far-right political party formed as a splinter group from the National Front by John Tyndall in 1982... |
0 | 6,389 (2.9%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Socialist Labour Party (UK) The Socialist Labour Party is a far left socialist political party in the United Kingdom. The party is led by former trade union leader Arthur Scargill, who established it in 1996 as a breakaway from the Labour Party... |
0 | 2,196 (1.0%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do... |
0 | 1,598 (0.7%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 0 | 1,493 (0.7%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do... |
0 | 1,108 (0.5%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Communist Party of Britain The Communist Party of Britain is a communist political party in Great Britain. Although founded in 1988 it traces its origins back to 1920 and the Communist Party of Great Britain, and claims the legacy of that party and its most influential members Harry Pollitt and John Gollan as its... |
0 | 666 (0.3%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Veritas In Roman mythology, Veritas, meaning truth, was the goddess of truth, a daughter of Saturn and the mother of Virtue. It was believed that she hid in the bottom of a holy well because she was so elusive. Her image is shown as a young virgin dressed in white... |
0 | 502 (0.2%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Christian Peoples Alliance The Christian Peoples Alliance is a Christian democratic political party in the United Kingdom. Founded in its present form in 1999; it grew out of a cross-party advocacy group known as the Movement for Christian Democracy. The party is active throughout England and has fledgling groups specific... |
0 | 413 (0.2%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Regional AMs elected 2007
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| Welsh Conservative Party The Welsh Conservatives & Unionists , informally the Welsh Conservatives or Welsh Tories, are the part of the Conservative Party which operates in Wales... |
Nick Bourne Nick Bourne Nicholas Henry Bourne is a Welsh Conservative politician. He served as the Leader of the Welsh Conservative Party and as a member of the National Assembly for Wales for the Mid and West Wales electoral region from August 1999 until May 2011... |
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| Alun Davies | ||
| Plaid Cymru ' is a political party in Wales. It advocates the establishment of an independent Welsh state within the European Union. was formed in 1925 and won its first seat in 1966... |
Nerys Evans Nerys Evans Nerys Evans is a Welsh politician. She was a member of the National Assembly for Wales representing Plaid Cymru in the Mid and West Wales region... |
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| Joyce Watson Joyce Watson Joyce Watson, born 1955, is a Welsh Labour politician who has been a Member of the National Assembly for Wales for Mid and West Wales since 2007.-Career:... |
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2003 Welsh Assembly election additional members
| Party | Constituency Seats | List Votes (vote %) | D'Hondt Entitlement D'Hondt method The d'Hondt method is a highest averages method for allocating seats in party-list proportional representation. The method described is named after Belgian mathematician Victor D'Hondt who described it in 1878... | Additional Members Elected | Total Members Elected | Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement | |
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| Plaid Cymru ' is a political party in Wales. It advocates the establishment of an independent Welsh state within the European Union. was formed in 1925 and won its first seat in 1966... |
3 | 51,874 (28.16%) | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | |
| 3 | 46,451 (25.22%) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Welsh Conservative Party The Welsh Conservatives & Unionists , informally the Welsh Conservatives or Welsh Tories, are the part of the Conservative Party which operates in Wales... |
0 | 35,566 (19.31%) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | |
| Welsh Liberal Democrats The Welsh Liberal Democrats are one of the three state parties of the federal Liberal Democrats and operate within Wales, the others being the Scottish Liberal Democrats and the Liberal Democrats in England.... |
2 | 30,177 (16.38%) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Green Party of England and Wales The Green Party of England and Wales is a political party in England and Wales which follows the traditions of Green politics and maintains a strong commitment to social progressivism. It is the largest Green party in the United Kingdom, containing within it various regional divisions including... |
0 | 7,794 (4.23%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| United Kingdom Independence Party The United Kingdom Independence Party is a eurosceptic and right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. Whilst its primary goal is the UK's withdrawal from the European Union, the party has expanded beyond its single-issue image to develop a more comprehensive party platform.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 Cymru Annibynnol Cymru Annibynnol, the Independent Wales Party is a small political party operating in Wales. They were formed as a splinter from Plaid Cymru in January 2000, when that party's leader Ieuan Wyn Jones distanced Plaid from supporting Welsh independence.... |
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 ProLife Alliance is an advocacy group in the United Kingdom, formed in October 1996. It is opposed to human cloning and abortion, opposes experiments on human embryos and also opposes any form of euthanasia. It supports anti-abortion taxation policies and guaranteed maternity and paternity leave... |
0 | 383 (0.21%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
1999 to 2007
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| Brecon and Radnorshire Brecon and Radnorshire (Assembly constituency) Brecon and Radnorshire is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election... |
Entirely within Powys Powys Powys is a local-government county and preserved county in Wales.-Geography:Powys covers the historic counties of Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire, most of Brecknockshire , and a small part of Denbighshire — an area of 5,179 km², making it the largest county in Wales by land area.It is... |
| Carmarthen East and Dinefwr Carmarthen East and Dinefwr (Assembly constituency) Carmarthen East and Dinefwr is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election... |
Entirely within Dyfed Dyfed Dyfed is a preserved county of Wales. It was created on 1 April 1974 under the terms of the Local Government Act 1972, and covered approximately the same geographic extent as the ancient Principality of Deheubarth, although excluding the Gower Peninsula and the area west of the River Tawe... |
| Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire (Assembly constituency) Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election... |
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| Ceredigion Ceredigion (Assembly constituency) Ceredigion is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election... |
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| Llanelli Llanelli (Assembly constituency) Llanelli 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 Mid and West Wales electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to eight... |
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| Meirionnydd Nant Conwy | Partly Clwyd Clwyd Clwyd is a preserved county of Wales, situated in the north-east, bordering England with Cheshire to its east, Shropshire to the south-east, and the Welsh counties of Gwynedd to its immediate west and Powys to the south. It additionally shares a maritime border with the metropolitan county of... , partly Gwynedd Gwynedd Gwynedd is a county in north-west Wales, named after the old Kingdom of Gwynedd. Although the second biggest in terms of geographical area, it is also one of the most sparsely populated... |
| Montgomeryshire Montgomeryshire (Assembly constituency) Montgomeryshire is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election... |
Entirely within Powys Powys Powys is a local-government county and preserved county in Wales.-Geography:Powys covers the historic counties of Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire, most of Brecknockshire , and a small part of Denbighshire — an area of 5,179 km², making it the largest county in Wales by land area.It is... |
| Preseli Pembrokeshire Preseli Pembrokeshire (Assembly constituency) Preseli Pembrokeshire is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election... |
Entirely within Dyfed Dyfed Dyfed is a preserved county of Wales. It was created on 1 April 1974 under the terms of the Local Government Act 1972, and covered approximately the same geographic extent as the ancient Principality of Deheubarth, although excluding the Gower Peninsula and the area west of the River Tawe... |
1999 Welsh Assembly election additional members
| Party | Constituency Seats | List Votes (vote %) | D'Hondt Entitlement D'Hondt method The d'Hondt method is a highest averages method for allocating seats in party-list proportional representation. The method described is named after Belgian mathematician Victor D'Hondt who described it in 1878... | Additional Members Elected | Total Members Elected | Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plaid Cymru ' is a political party in Wales. It advocates the establishment of an independent Welsh state within the European Union. was formed in 1925 and won its first seat in 1966... |
4 | 84,554 (38.55%) | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | |
| 2 | 53,842 (24.55%) | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Welsh Conservative Party The Welsh Conservatives & Unionists , informally the Welsh Conservatives or Welsh Tories, are the part of the Conservative Party which operates in Wales... |
0 | 36,622 (16.70%) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| Welsh Liberal Democrats The Welsh Liberal Democrats are one of the three state parties of the federal Liberal Democrats and operate within Wales, the others being the Scottish Liberal Democrats and the Liberal Democrats in England.... |
0 | 31,683 (14.44%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Green Party of England and Wales The Green Party of England and Wales is a political party in England and Wales which follows the traditions of Green politics and maintains a strong commitment to social progressivism. It is the largest Green party in the United Kingdom, containing within it various regional divisions including... |
0 | 7,718 (3.52%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Socialist Labour Party (UK) The Socialist Labour Party is a far left socialist political party in the United Kingdom. The party is led by former trade union leader Arthur Scargill, who established it in 1996 as a breakaway from the Labour Party... |
0 | 3,019 (1.38%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do... |
0 | 1,214 (0.55%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Natural Law Party The Natural Law Party was a transnational party based on the teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It was active in up to 74 countries, and ran candidates in at least ten. Founded in 1992, it was mostly disbanded in 2004 but continues in India and in some U.S. states.The NLP viewed "natural law" as... |
0 | 705 (0.32%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |