Vale_of_Clwyd_(National_Assembly_for_Wales_constituency)

Vale of Clwyd (Senedd constituency)

Vale of Clwyd (Senedd constituency)

Constituency of the Senedd


The Vale of Clwyd (Welsh: Dyffryn Clwyd) is a constituency of the Senedd. It elects one Member of the Senedd 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.

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Boundaries

Map of current boundaries

The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Vale of Clwyd Westminster constituency. It is entirely within the preserved county of Clwyd. From the 2007 Assembly election, the constituency has included an area currently within the Clwyd West constituency. For Westminster purposes, the same boundary change became effective for the 2010 United Kingdom general election.

When created in 1999, the North Wales region included the constituencies of Alyn and Deeside, Caernarfon, Clwyd South, Clwyd West, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn.

Since the 2007 Assembly election, the region includes Aberconwy, Alyn and Deeside, Arfon, Clwyd South, Conwy, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn.

Voting

In elections for the Senedd, each voter has two votes. The first vote may be used to vote for a candidate to become the Member of the Senedd 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.

Members of the Senedd

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Elections

Elections in the 2020s

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Elections in the 2010s

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Regional ballots rejected: 186[8]

Elections in the 2000s

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2003 Electorate: 49,319
Regional ballots rejected: 534

Elections in the 1990s

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See also


References

  1. Vale of Clwyd Statement of Persons Nominated
  2. "Vale of Clwyd - Welsh Parliament constituency". BBC News.
  3. Regional Declaration of Results (North Wales). Retrieved 2021/05/09.
  4. "Results and turnout at the 2016 National Assembly for Wales election". Electoral Commission. 9 August 2019. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
  5. "Wales elections > Vale of Clwyd". BBC News. 6 May 2011. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  6. "Results and turnout at the 2011 National Assembly for Wales Election". Electoral Commission. 9 August 2019. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  7. "Results and turnout at the 2011 National Assembly for Wales election". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  8. The National Assembly for Wales elections 2003. The Electoral Commission. November 2003. pp. 110–115. Retrieved 1 August 2021.

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