Caernarfon (Assembly constituency)

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Caernarfon
Former Welsh Assembly county constituency
CaernarfonConstituency.svg
Caernarfon shown as one of the 40
Welsh Assembly constituencies from 1999 to 2007
Created: 1999
Abolished: 2007
Electoral region: North Wales
Preserved county: Gwynedd

Caernarfon was a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales from 1999 to 2007. It was one of nine constituencies in the North Wales electoral region until the abolition of the seat. The constituency elected one Assembly Member by the first past the post method, while the North Wales region elected four additional members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the area as a whole. [1]

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Boundaries

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

The other eight constituencies of the region were Alyn and Deeside, Clwyd West, Clwyd South, Conwy, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn.

The constituency was abolished at the 2007 election. Part of the constituency then joined the new Arfon constituency, and part the new Dwyfor Meirionnydd constituency, both constituencies entirely within the preserved county of Gwynedd. The Arfon constituency is within the North Wales electoral region. The Dwyfor Meirionnydd constituency is within the Mid and West Wales region.

Assembly members

ElectionMemberParty
1999 Dafydd Wigley Plaid Cymru
2003 Alun Ffred Jones
2007 constituency abolished; see Arfon and Dwyfor Meirionnydd

Elections

Welsh Assembly Election 2003: Caernarfon
PartyCandidateConstituencyRegional [2]
Votes%±%Votes%±%
Plaid Cymru Alun Ffred Jones 11,67555.0−10.810,33548.6-10.1
Labour Martin Eaglestone5,77027.2+4.55,12724.1+0.7
Conservative Goronwy Edwards2,40211.3+2.62,45911.6+1.2
Liberal Democrats Stephen William Churchman1,3926.6+3.81,2385.8+1.4
Cymru Annibynnol7603.6New
Green 5352.5Unknown
UKIP 4332.0New
John Marek Independent Party 2991.4New
Communist 540.3Unknown
ProLife Alliance 330.2New
Majority5,90527.8−15.3
Turnout 21,23945.0−15.7
Plaid Cymru hold Swing −7.7
Welsh Assembly Election 1999: Caernarfon [3]
PartyCandidateConstituencyList
Votes%±%Votes%±%
Plaid Cymru Dafydd Wigley 18,74865.8N/A16,66158.7
Labour Tom Jones6,47522.7N/A6,64823.4
Conservative Bronwen Naish2,4648.7N/A2,95810.4
Liberal Democrats David Shankland7912.8N/A1,2374.4
Green UnknownUnknown
Natural Law UnknownUnknown
Communist UnknownUnknown
Rhuddlan Debt Protest CampaignUnknownUnknown
Socialist Alliance UnknownUnknown
Collective vote of the above list parties8803.1
Majority12,27343.1N/A
Turnout 28,74860.5N/A
Plaid Cymru win (new seat)

2003 Electorate: 47,173
Regional ballots rejected: 259

See also

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References

  1. "How the Assembly is elected". National Assembly for Wales . Retrieved 28 January 2020.
  2. "2007 Assembly Election Results (updated) July 2007(Pages 69, 70 and 78)" (PDF). National Assembly for Wales. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  3. "Election results for Caernarfon – 1999". National Assembly for Wales . Retrieved 28 January 2020.

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