South Wales Central (National Assembly for Wales electoral region)
Welsh Assembly electoral region | |
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South Wales Central shown within Wales | |
Created 1999 | |
Constituencies 1. Cardiff Central 2. Cardiff North 3. Cardiff South and Penarth 4. Cardiff West 5. Cynon Valley 6. Pontypridd 7. Rhondda 8. Vale of Glamorgan | |
Current representation | |
Labour | 7 AMs |
Conservative | 2 AMs |
Plaid Cymru | 2 AMs |
UKIP | 1 AM |
Preserved counties Mid Glamorgan (part) South Glamorgan (part) |
South Wales Central is an electoral region of the National Assembly for Wales, consisting of eight constituencies. The region elects 12 members, eight directly elected constituency members and four additional members. The electoral region was first used in 1999, 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 reckoned as pre elected list members.
County boundaries
The region covers much of the preserved county of Mid Glamorgan and much of the preserved county of South Glamorgan. The rest of Mid Glamorgan is partly within the South Wales East electoral region and partly within the South Wales West. The rest of South Glamorgan is within the South Wales West electoral region.
Electoral region profile
The region is predominantly urban, taking in Wales' capital and largest city, Cardiff, as well as the working-class former mining town of Pontypridd, the seaside resort of Barry, and parts of the formerly industrial and still heavily populated South Wales Valleys. However, the region also includes rural areas in the western part of the Vale of Glamorgan.
Constituencies
The eight constituencies have the names and boundaries of constituencies of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster):
Constituency | 2016 Result | Preserved counties | |
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Cardiff Central | Jenny Rathbone Labour |
Entirely within South Glamorgan | |
Cardiff North | Julie Morgan Labour |
Entirely within South Glamorgan | |
Cardiff South and Penarth | Vaughan Gething Labour |
Entirely within South Glamorgan | |
Cardiff West | Mark Drakeford Labour |
Entirely within South Glamorgan | |
Cynon Valley | Vikki Howells Labour & Co-operative |
Entirely within Mid Glamorgan | |
Pontypridd | Mick Antoniw Labour |
Partly Mid Glamorgan, partly South Glamorgan | |
Rhondda | Leanne Wood Plaid Cymru |
Entirely within Mid Glamorgan | |
Vale of Glamorgan | Jane Hutt Labour |
Partly Mid Glamorgan, partly South Glamorgan |
Additional Assembly members
AMs for South Wales Central, 1999 onwards | |||||||||||
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Election | 1999 (1st Assembly) | 2003 (2nd Assembly) | 2007 (3rd Assembly) | 2011 (4th Assembly) | 2016 (5th Assembly) | ||||||
AM Party |
Jonathan Morgan Conservative |
Andrew R. T. Davies Conservative |
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AM Party |
David Melding Conservative |
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AM Party |
Owen John Thomas Plaid Cymru |
Chris Franks Plaid Cymru |
Eluned Parrott Liberal Democrat |
Gareth Bennett UKIP |
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AM Party |
Pauline Jarman Plaid Cymru |
Leanne Wood Plaid Cymru |
Neil McEvoy Plaid Cymru |
2016 Welsh Assembly election additional members
Regional AMs Elected 2016
Party | Name | |
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Conservative | Andrew R. T. Davies | |
Conservative | David Melding | |
Plaid Cymru | Neil McEvoy | |
UKIP | Gareth Bennett |
2011 Welsh Assembly election additional members
Party | Constituency Seats | List Votes (vote %) | D'Hondt Entitlement | Additional Members Elected | Total Members Elected | Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement | |
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Labour | 8 | 85,445 (41.0%) | 6 | 0 | 8 | +2 | |
Conservative | 0 | 45,751 (22.0%) | 3 | 2 | 2 | −1 | |
Plaid Cymru | 0 | 28,606 (13.7%) | 2 | 1 | 1 | −1 | |
Liberal Democrats | 0 | 16,514 (7.9%) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
Green | 0 | 10,774 (5.2%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
UKIP | 0 | 8,292 (4.0%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Socialist Labour | 0 | 4,690 (2.3%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
BNP | 0 | 3,805 (1.8%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Welsh Christian | 0 | 1,873 (0.9%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Monster Raving Loony | 0 | 1,237 (0.6%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
TUSC | 0 | 830 (0.4%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Communist | 0 | 516 (0.2%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Regional AMs elected 2011
Party | Name | |
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Conservative | Andrew R. T. Davies | |
Conservative | David Melding | |
Liberal Democrats | Eluned Parrott † | |
Plaid Cymru | Leanne Wood |
† Replaced John Dixon, who was disqualified for being a member of a public body to which AMs cannot belong.[1]
2007 Welsh Assembly election additional members [2]
Party | Constituency Seats | List Votes (vote %) | D'Hondt Entitlement | Additional Members Elected | Total Members Elected | Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement | |
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Labour | 6 | 70,799 (34.0%) | 5 | 0 | 6 | +1 | |
Conservative | 1 | 45,127 (21.7%) | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | |
Plaid Cymru | 0 | 32,207 (15.5%) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
Liberal Democrats | 1 | 29,626 (14.0%) | 2 | 0 | 1 | −1 | |
BNP | 0 | 7,889 (3.8%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Green | 0 | 7,831 (3.8%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
UKIP | 0 | 7,645 (3.7%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Welsh Christian | 0 | 1,987 (1.0%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Socialist Labour | 0 | 1,744 (0.8%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Respect | 0 | 1,079 (0.5%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Socialist Alternative | 0 | 838 (0.4%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Communist | 0 | 817 (0.4%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Christian Peoples | 0 | 757 (0.4%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Socialist Equality | 0 | 292 (0.1%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
2003 Welsh Assembly election additional members[3]
Party | Constituency Seats | List Votes (vote %) | D'Hondt Entitlement | Additional Members Elected | Total Members Elected | Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement | |
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Labour | 7 | 74,369 (41.08%) | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |
Conservative | 0 | 33,404 (18.45%) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
Plaid Cymru | 0 | 27,956 (15.44%) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
Liberal Democrats | 1 | 24,926 (13.77%) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
UKIP | 0 | 6,920 (3.82.%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Green | 0 | 6,047 (3.34%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Socialist Labour | 0 | 3,217 (1.78%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
New Millennium Bean Party | 0 | 1,027 (0.57%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Cymru Annibynnol | 0 | 1,018 (0.56%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Vote 2 Stop the War | 0 | 1,013 (0.56%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Communist | 0 | 577 (0.32%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
ProLife Alliance | 0 | 573 (0.32%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
1999 Welsh Assembly election additional members[4]
Party | Constituency Seats | List Votes (vote %) | D'Hondt Entitlement | Additional Members Elected | Total Members Elected | Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement | |
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Labour | 6 | 79,564 (36.92%) | 5 | 0 | 6 | +1 | |
Plaid Cymru | 1 | 58,080 (26.95%) | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | |
Conservative | 0 | 34,944 (16.22%) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
Liberal Democrats | 1 | 30,911 (14.35%) | 2 | 0 | 1 | −1 | |
Green | 0 | 5,336 (2.48%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Socialist Labour | 0 | 2,822 (1.31%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Independent- Matt | 0 | 1,524 (0.71%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Natural Law | 0 | 665 (0.31%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Communist | 0 | 652 (0.30%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Socialist Alliance | 0 | 602 (0.28%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Independent- Phillips | 0 | 378 (0.18%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |