North Wales (National Assembly for Wales electoral region)

**North Wales**
Welsh Assembly electoral region

North Wales shown within Wales
Created 1999
Current representation
Labour	5 AMs
Conservative	3 AMs
Plaid Cymru	3 AMs
UKIP	2 AMs
Constituencies 1. Aberconwy 2. Alyn and Deeside 3. Arfon 4. Clwyd South 5.Clwyd West 6. Delyn 7. Vale of Clwyd 8. Wrexham 9. Ynys Môn
Preserved counties Clwyd Gwynedd (part)

North Wales is an electoral region of the National Assembly for Wales, consisting of nine constituencies. The region elects thirteen members, nine directly elected constituency members and four additional members. The electoral region was first used in the 1999 Welsh Assembly election, when the 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. The additional member seats are allocated from closed lists by the d'Hondt method, with constituency results being taken into account in the allocation.

County and Westminster boundaries

As created in 1999, the region covered the most of the preserved county of Clwyd, part of the preserved county of Gwynedd, and part of the preserved county of Powys. Other parts of these preserved counties were within the Mid and West Wales electoral region. For the 2007 Welsh Assembly election, however, boundaries changed, and the region now covers all of the preserved county of Clwyd and part of the preserved county of Gwynedd. The rest of Gwynedd is in the Mid and West Wales region.

The Assembly constituencies have the names of constituencies of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster). 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 a mix of rural and urban areas, with the population higher in the east, where can be found the region's largest town, Wrexham, and the working-class conurbations of Deeside. The western areas, including the Isle of Anglesey (Ynys Mon), are largely rural. Although Anglesey and Gwynedd are home to large numbers of Welsh speakers, the language is not widely spoken in the north-east.

Additional Assembly members

AMs for North Wales, 1999 onwards
Election	1999 (1st Assembly)		2003 (2nd Assembly)	2007 (3rd Assembly)	2011 (4th Assembly)		2016 (5th Assembly)
Election			2003 (2nd Assembly)	2007 (3rd Assembly)			2016 (5th Assembly)
AM Party	Rod Richards Conservative	David Jones^[1] Conservative	Mark Isherwood Conservative
AM Party	Peter Rogers Conservative		Brynle Williams Conservative		Antoinette Sandbach Conservative	Janet Haworth^[2] Conservative	Nathan Gill UKIP
AM Party	Christine Humphreys Liberal Democrat	Eleanor Burnham^[3] Liberal Democrat			Aled Roberts Liberal Democrat		Michelle Brown UKIP
AM Party	Janet Ryder Plaid Cymru				Llyr Huws Gruffydd Plaid Cymru

Constituencies

Constituency		Preserved county
Aberconwy	Janet Finch-Saunders Conservative	Entirely within Clwyd
Alyn and Deeside	Carl Sargeant Labour	Entirely within Clwyd
Arfon	Siân Gwenllian Plaid Cymru	Entirely within Gwynedd
Clwyd South	Ken Skates Labour	Entirely within Clwyd
Clwyd West	Darren Millar Conservative
Delyn	Hannah Blythyn Labour
Vale of Clwyd	Ann Jones Labour
Wrexham	Lesley Griffiths Labour
Ynys Môn	Rhun ap Iorwerth Plaid Cymru	Entirely within Gwynedd

2011 Welsh Assembly election additional members

	Constituency Seats	List Votes (vote %)	D'Hondt Entitlement	Additional Members Elected	Total Members Elected
Labour	5	62,677 (32.2%)	5	0	5
Conservative	2	52,201 (26.8%)	4	2	4
Plaid Cymru	2	41,701 (21.4%)	3	1	3
Liberal Democrats	0	11,507 (5.9%)	1	1	1
UKIP	0	9,608 (4.9%)	0	0	0
Socialist Labour	0	4,895 (2.5%)	0	0	0
BNP	0	4,785 (2.5%)	0	0	0
Green	0	4,406 (2.3%)	0	0	0
Welsh Christian	0	1,401 (0.7%)	0	0	0
Jason Weyman - Independent	0	1,094 (0.6%)	0	0	0
Communist	0	523 (0.3%)	0	0	0

Regional AMs elected 2011

Party		Name
	Conservative	Mark Isherwood
	Conservative	Antoinette Sandbach †
	Liberal Democrats	Aled Roberts
	Plaid Cymru	Llyr Huws Gruffydd

† Resigned as AM following her election to the UK House of Commons on 7 May 2015; replaced by Janet Haworth from 27 May 2015.

2007 Welsh Assembly election additional members^[4]

	Constituency Seats	List Votes (vote %)	D'Hondt Entitlement	Additional Members Elected	Total Members Elected	Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement
Labour	5	51,831 (26.4%)	4	0	5	+1
Plaid Cymru	3	50,558 (25.7%)	4	1	4	0
Conservative	1	50,266 (25.6%)	4	2	3	−1
Liberal Democrats	0	15,275 (7.8%)	1	1	1	0
BNP	0	9,986 (5.1%)	0	0	0	0
UKIP	0	8,015 (4.1%)	0	0	0	0
Green	0	5,660 (2.9%)	0	0	0	0
Socialist Labour	0	2,209 (1.1%)	0	0	0	0
Welsh Christian	0	1,300 (0.7%)	0	0	0	0
Communist	0	700 (0.4%)	0	0	0	0
Christian Peoples	0	642 (0.3%)	0	0	0	0

2003 Welsh Assembly election additional members^[5]

	Constituency Seats	List Votes (vote %)	D'Hondt Entitlement	Additional Members Elected	Total Members Elected
Labour	6	55,250 (31.57%)	6	0	6
Plaid Cymru	2	41,640 (23.79%)	3	1	3
Conservative	0	38,543 (22.02%)	2	2	2
Liberal Democrats	0	17,503 (10.00%)	1	1	1
Independent- John Marek	1	11,008 (6.29.%)	1	0	1
UKIP	0	4,500 (2.57%)	0	0	0
Green	0	4,200 (2.40%)	0	0	0
Cymru Annibynnol	0	1,552 (0.89%)	0	0	0
Communist	0	522 (0.30%)	0	0	0
ProLife Alliance	0	310 (0.18%)	0	0	0

Former constituencies

1999 to 2007

Constituency	Preserved counties
Alyn and Deeside	Entirely within Clwyd
Caernarfon	Entirely within Gwynedd
Clwyd South	Partly Clwyd, partly Powys
Clwyd West	Entirely within Clwyd
Conwy	Partly Clwyd, partly Gwynedd
Delyn	Entirely within Clwyd
Vale of Clwyd
Wrexham
Ynys Môn	Entirely within Gwynedd

1999 Welsh Assembly election additional members^[5]

	Constituency Seats	List Votes (vote %)	D'Hondt Entitlement	Additional Members Elected	Total Members Elected
Labour	6	70,625 (41.79%)	6	0	6
Plaid Cymru	3	50,757 (30.04%)	4	1	4
Conservative	0	20,993 (12.42%)	2	2	2
Liberal Democrats	0	18,527 (10.96%)	1	1	1
Green	0	4,082 (2.42%)	0	0	0
People's Representative	0	2,074 (1.23%)	0	0	0
Socialist Alliance	0	1,257 (0.74%)	0	0	0
Natural Law	0	676 (0.40%)	0	0	0

References

↑ Rod Richards resigned in September 2002 and was replaced by David Jones.
↑ Antoinette Sandbach resigned in May 2015 and was replaced by Janet Haworth.
↑ Christine Humphreys resigned in March 2001 and was replaced by Eleanor Burnham.
↑ BBC Election results
1 2 http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ass/constit/wr2.htm

Electoral regions and Constituencies of the National Assembly for Wales

Mid and West Wales	Brecon and Radnorshire Carmarthen East and Dinefwr Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire Ceredigion Dwyfor Meirionnydd Llanelli Montgomeryshire Preseli Pembrokeshire

North Wales	Aberconwy Alyn and Deeside Arfon Clwyd South Clwyd West Delyn Vale of Clwyd Wrexham Ynys Môn

South Wales Central	Cardiff Central Cardiff North Cardiff South and Penarth Cardiff West Cynon Valley Pontypridd Rhondda Vale of Glamorgan

South Wales East	Blaenau Gwent Caerphilly Islwyn Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney Monmouth Newport East Newport West Torfaen

South Wales West	Aberavon Bridgend Gower Neath Ogmore Swansea East Swansea West

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