Cynon Valley Cwm Cynon | |
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Senedd county constituency for the Senedd | |
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![]() Cynon Valley shown within the South Wales Central electoral region and the region shown within Wales | |
Current Senedd county constituency | |
Created | 1999 |
Party | Welsh Labour |
MS | Vikki Howells |
Preserved county | Mid Glamorgan |
Cynon Valley (Welsh : Cwm Cynon) is a constituency of the Senedd. It elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. It is also one of eight constituencies in the South Wales Central electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to eight constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Cynon Valley Westminster constituency. It is entirely within the preserved county of Mid Glamorgan.
The other seven constituencies of the region are Cardiff Central, Cardiff North, Cardiff South and Penarth, Cardiff West, Pontypridd, Rhondda and Vale of Glamorgan.
In general 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.
Election | Member | Party | Portrait | |
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1999 | Christine Chapman | Labour Co-operative | ![]() | |
2016 | Vikki Howells | Labour | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Labour | Vikki Howells [lower-alpha 1] | 11,427 | 55.3 | +4.2 | 10,279 | 50.1 | +7.0 | |
Plaid Cymru | Geraint Benney | 3,959 | 19.3 | -0.6 | 3,935 | 19.2 | -4.7 | |
Conservative | Mia Rees | 2,795 | 13.6 | +7.5 | 3,220 | 15.7 | +9.3 | |
Propel | Vicky Jenkins | 713 | 3.5 | New | 325 | 1.6 | New | |
Abolish | Martyn Ford | 648 | 3.2 | New | 660 | 3.2 | -0.3 | |
Reform UK | Peter Hopkins | 356 | 1.7 | New | 284 | 1.4 | New | |
Liberal Democrats | Gerald Francis | 335 | 1.6 | -0.1 | 324 | 1.6 | -0.4 | |
Independent | Gareth Bennett | 278 | 1.4 | New | ||||
Green | 625 | 3.0 | +0.8 | |||||
UKIP | 352 | 1.7 | -14.5 | |||||
Gwlad | 153 | 0.7 | New | |||||
No More Lockdowns | 121 | 0.6 | New | |||||
Workers Party | 64 | 0.3 | New | |||||
TUSC | 56 | 0.3 | -0.1 | |||||
Communist | 53 | 0.3 | -0.1 | |||||
Independent Alan Coulthard | 50 | 0.2 | New | |||||
Majority | 7,468 | 36.0 | +4.8 | |||||
Turnout | 20,511 | 39.05 [2] | +0.8 | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | |||||||
Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional [3] [4] | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Labour | Vikki Howells | 9,830 | 51.1 | -10.9 | 8,295 | 43.1 | -10.3 | |
Plaid Cymru | Cerith Griffiths | 3,836 | 19.9 | -7.3 | 4,601 | 23.9 | -0.6 | |
UKIP | Liz Wilks | 3,460 | 18.0 | New | 3,120 | 16.2 | ||
Conservative | Lyn Hudson | 1,177 | 6.1 | -2.1 | 1,227 | 6.4 | -1.2 | |
Green | John Matthews | 598 | 3.1 | New | 426 | 2.2 | -1.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Michael Wallace | 335 | 1.7 | -0.9 | 385 | 2.0 | -0.8 | |
Abolish | 670 | 3.5 | New | |||||
Women's Equality | 149 | 0.8 | New | |||||
Monster Raving Loony | 102 | 0.5 | -0.1 | |||||
TUSC | 79 | 0.4 | -0.1 | |||||
Communist | 70 | 0.4 | +0.1 | |||||
Freedom to Choose / Vapers in Power | 56 | 0.3 | New | |||||
Independent (Jonathan Bishop) [5] | 51 | 0.3 | New | |||||
Majority | 5,994 | 31.2 | -3.6 | |||||
Turnout | 19,236 | 38.2 | +2.3 | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | |||||||
Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional [6] | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Labour Co-op | Christine Chapman | 11,626 | 62.0 | +5.3 | 9,730 | |||
Plaid Cymru | Dafydd Trystan Davies | 5,111 | 27.2 | -0.6 | 4,254 | |||
Conservative | Daniel Saxton | 1,531 | 8.2 | -2.2 | 1,378 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Ian Walton | 492 | 2.6 | -2.5 | 507 | |||
UKIP | 73 | - | ||||||
Socialist Labour | 781 | |||||||
Green | 609 | |||||||
BNP | 409 | - | ||||||
Welsh Christian | 228 | |||||||
Monster Raving Loony | 104 | New | ||||||
TUSC | 96 | New | ||||||
Communist | 57 | - | ||||||
Majority | 6,515 | 34.8 | +5.9 | |||||
Turnout | 18,760 | 35.9 | -2.5 | |||||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | +3.0 | ||||||
Note: The Electoral Commission record the UKIP regional vote here as 73. That figure would be by far the lowest in Wales and not in keeping with historic figures here or equivalent figures elsewhere in the South Wales Valleys, South Wales Central and Wales at this election.
Regional ballots rejected at the count: 118< [7]
Party | Candidate | Constituency [8] | Regional [9] | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Labour Co-op | Christine Chapman | 11,058 | 56.7 | -8.3 | 10,036 | 50.6 | -5.4 | |
Plaid Cymru | Liz A. Walters | 5,435 | 27.8 | +6.5 | 4,214 | 21.3 | +0.5 | |
Conservative | Neill S.M. John | 2,024 | 10.4 | +3.8 | 1,401 | 7.1 | -0.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Margaret H. Phelps | 1,000 | 5.1 | -2.5 | 1,232 | 6.2 | +0.2 | |
BNP | 912 | 4.6 | New | |||||
UKIP | 769 | 3.9 | ±0.0 | |||||
Green | 528 | 2.7 | -0.3 | |||||
Welsh Christian | 211 | 1.1 | New | |||||
Socialist Labour | 200 | 1.0 | -2.1 | |||||
Communist | 89 | 0.4 | +0.3 | |||||
Socialist Alternative | 84 | 0.4 | New | |||||
Respect | 68 | 0.3 | New | |||||
CPA | 39 | 0.2 | New | |||||
Socialist Equality | 36 | 0.2 | New | |||||
Majority | 5,623 | 28.9 | −13.9 | |||||
Turnout | 19,517 | 38.4 | +1.2 | |||||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | −7.2 | ||||||
Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional [10] | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Labour Co-op | Christine Chapman | 10,841 | 65.0 | +19.4 | 9,329 | 56.1 | +14.1 | |
Plaid Cymru | David A. Walters | 3,724 | 22.3 | −20.2 | 3,454 | 20.8 | -23.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Rob O. Humphreys | 1,120 | 6.7 | −0.4 | 1,238 | 7.4 | +0.3 | |
Conservative | Daniel C.B. Thomas | 984 | 5.9 | +1.1 | 1,001 | 6.0 | +1.4 | |
Socialist Labour | 522 | 3.1 | Unknown | |||||
Green | 392 | 2.4 | Unknown | |||||
UKIP | 314 | 1.9 | New | |||||
Cymru Annibynnol | 123 | 0.7 | New | |||||
New Millennium Bean Partyn | 86 | 0.5 | New | |||||
Communist | 75 | 0.5 | Unknown | |||||
Vote No 2 Stop the War | 71 | 0.4 | New | |||||
ProLife Alliance | 31 | 0.2 | New | |||||
Majority | 7,117 | 42.7 | +39.6 | |||||
Turnout | 16,669 | 37.5 | −8.1 | |||||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | +19.8 | ||||||
2003 Electorate: 44,473
Regional ballots rejected: 345
Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Labour Co-op | Christine Chapman | 9,883 | 45.6 | N/A | 9,000 | 42.0 | N/A | |
Plaid Cymru | Phil Richards | 9,206 | 42.5 | N/A | 9,385 | 43.8 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Alison L. Willott | 1,531 | 7.1 | N/A | 1,513 | 7.1 | N/A | |
Conservative | Edmund R. Hayward | 1,046 | 4.8 | N/A | 997 | 4.6 | N/A | |
Others | 554 | 2.6 | N/A | |||||
Majority | 932 | 3.1 | N/A | |||||
Turnout | 21,666 | 45.6 | N/A | |||||
Labour Co-op win (new seat) |
1999 Electorate: 47,508
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