Swansea West (Assembly constituency)

Swansea West

Welsh Assembly borough constituency
Swansea West shown as one of the 40 Welsh Assembly constituencies
Created:	1999
Electoral region:	South Wales West
AM:	Julie James
Party:	Labour
Preserved county:	West Glamorgan

Swansea West 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 seven constituencies in the South Wales West electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to seven constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

Boundaries

The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Swansea West Westminster constituency. It is entirely within the preserved county of West Glamorgan.

The other six constituencies of the region are Aberavon, Bridgend, Gower, Neath, Ogmore and Swansea East.

Assembly members

Period		Member	Party
	1999	Andrew Davies	Labour Party
	2003	Julie James	Labour Party

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.

Welsh Assembly Election 2016: Swansea West[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Holley
	UKIP	Rosie Irwin
	Labour	Julie James
	Socialist	Brian Johnson
	Conservative	Craig Lawton
	Plaid Cymru	Dai Lloyd
	Green	Gareth Tucker
Majority
Turnout

Election results

Election	Political result		Candidate		Party	Votes	%	±%
Assembly Election 2011 Electorate: 62,345 Turnout: 21,805 (35.1%) −2.1		Labour hold Majority: 4,654 (21.3%) +17.7 Swing: 4.1% from Conservative to Labour		Julie James	Labour	9,885	45.3	+13.0
				Steve Jenkins	Conservative	5,231	24.0	+4.8
				Rob Speht	Liberal Democrats	3,654	16.8	−9.0
				Carl Harris	Plaid Cymru	3,035	13.9	−1.7
Assembly Election 2007 Electorate: 61,469 Turnout: 22,879 (37.2%) +4.2		Labour hold Majority: 1,511 (6.6%) −6.6 Swing: 3.5% from Labour to Conservative		Andrew Davies	Labour	7,393	32.3	−3.9
				Peter May	Liberal Democrats	5,882	25.7	+7.6
				Harri James Lloyd Davies	Conservative	4,379	19.1	+3.1
				Ian Richard Titherington	Plaid Cymru	3,583	15.7	−7.3
				Richard David Lewis	UKIP	1,642	7.2	N/A
Assembly Election 2003 Electorate: 58,749 Turnout: 19,412 (33.0%) −7.0		Labour hold Majority: 2,562 (13.2%) +5.1 Swing: 0.5%% from Conservative to Labour		Andrew Davies	Labour	7,023	36.2	+1.5
				Dr Dai Lloyd	Plaid Cymru	4,461	23.0	−3.5
				Mike Day	Liberal Democrats	3,510	18.1	+3.1
				Gerald Rowbottom	Conservative	3,106	16.0	+0.6
				David C. Evans	UKIP	1,040	5.3	+1.2
				Leigh Richards	Socialist Alliance	272	1.4	+0.3
Assembly Election 1999 Electorate: 59,369 Turnout: 23,727 (40.0%) N/A		Labour win Majority: 1,926 (8.1%)		Andrew Davies	Labour	8,217	34.6	N/A
				Dr Dai Lloyd	Plaid Cymru	6,291	26.5	N/A
				Paul H. Valerio	Conservative	3,643	15.4	N/A
				John Newbury	Liberal Democrats	3,543	14.9	N/A
				David C. Evans	Independent	996	4.2	N/A
				John R. Harris	People's Representative	774	3.3	N/A
				Alec Thraves	Socialist Alliance	263	1.1	N/A

References

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

Coordinates: 51°37′06″N 3°59′11″W / 51.61833°N 3.98639°W