North Wales (National Assembly for Wales electoral region)

**North Wales**
Welsh Assembly electoral region

North Wales shown within Wales
Created 1999
Current representation
Welsh Labour Party	5 AMs
Conservative Party	4 AMs
Plaid Cymru	3 AMs
Liberal Democrats	1 AM
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.

Regional members

Term	Member	Member	Member	Member
1999 — 2003	Christine Humphreys Liberal Democrat Resigned 21 March 2001	Rod Richards Conservative/Independent Conservative from 8 February 2000^[1] Resigned 10 September 2002	Peter Rogers Conservative	Janet Ryder Plaid Cymru
	Eleanor Burnham Liberal Democrat From 22 March 2001
		David Jones Conservative From 19 September 2002
2003 — 2007		Mark Isherwood Conservative	Brynle Williams Conservative Died 1 April 2011
2007 — 2011			Brynle Williams Conservative Died 1 April 2011
2011 — 2016	Aled Roberts Liberal Democrat Disqualified 17 May – 6 July 2011		Antoinette Sandbach Conservative resigned 8 May 2015	Llyr Huws Gruffydd Plaid Cymru
2011 — 2016			Janet Haworth Conservative from 8 May 2015	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	Alun Ffred Jones Plaid Cymru	Entirely within Gwynedd
Clwyd South	Ken Skates Labour	Entirely within Clwyd
Clwyd West	Darren Millar Conservative
Delyn	Sandy Mewies Labour
Vale of Clwyd	Ann Jones Labour
Wrexham	Lesley Griffiths Labour
Ynys Môn	Ieuan Wyn Jones 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^[2]

	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^[3]

	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^[3]

	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

↑ Staff reporter (8 February 2000). "Tory AM's 'conspiracy' claim". BBC News. Retrieved 6 June 2013. Mr Richards made his bitter attack on Nick Bourne after his fellow Tory AMs withdrew the party whip from him - excluding him from the Assembly's Conservative group.
↑ 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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