Arfon (Assembly constituency)

Coordinates: 53°04′59″N 4°02′31″W / 53.083°N 4.042°W

Arfon
National Assembly for Wales county constituency
Arfon shown within the North Wales electoral region and the region shown within Wales
Current National Assembly for Wales county constituency
Created	2007
Party	Plaid Cymru
AM	Alun Ffred Jones
Preserved county	Gwynedd
Created from	Caernarfon and Conwy

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 2010 United Kingdom general election. The new constituency merged 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

Period		Member	Party
	2007	Alun Ffred Jones	Plaid Cymru

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Welsh Assembly Election 2016: Arfon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Siân Gwenllian	10,962	54.8	-1.9
	Labour	Sion Jones	6,800	34.0	+7.8
	Conservative	Martin Peet	1,655	8.3	-4.2
	Liberal Democrats	Sara Lloyd Williams	577	2.9	-1.6
Majority			4,162
Turnout				50.9	+7.5
	Plaid Cymru hold		Swing	−4.9

Welsh Assembly Election 2011: Arfon[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Alun Ffred Jones	10,024	56.7	+4.3
	Labour	Christina Elizabeth Rees	4,630	26.2	−0.6
	Conservative	Aled Davies	2,209	12.5	+3.0
	Liberal Democrats	Rhys David Jones	801	4.5	−2.8
Majority			5,394	30.5	+4.9
Turnout			17,664	43.4	−5.7
	Plaid Cymru hold		Swing	+2.4

Elections in the 2000s

Welsh Assembly Election 2007: Arfon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Alun Ffred Jones	10,260	52.4	N/A
	Labour	Martin Robert Eaglestone	5,242	26.8	N/A
	Conservative	Gerry Frobisher	1,858	9.5	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Mel ab Owain	1,424	7.3	N/A
	UKIP	Elwyn Williams	789	4.0	N/A
Majority			5,018	25.6	N/A
Turnout			19,573	49.1	N/A
	Plaid Cymru win (new seat)

References

1. "Wales elections > Arfon". BBC News. 6 May 2011. Retrieved 8 March 2011.