Dwyfor Meirionnydd (Senedd constituency)

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Dwyfor Meirionnydd
Senedd county constituency
for the Senedd
Dwyfor Meirionnydd (Assembly constituency).svg
Mid and West Wales (National Assembly for Wales electoral region).svg
Dwyfor Meirionnydd shown within the Mid and West Wales electoral region and the region shown within Wales
Current Senedd county constituency
Created 2007
Party Plaid Cymru
MS Mabon ap Gwynfor
Preserved county Gwynedd
Created from Caernarfon and Meirionnydd Nant Conwy

Dwyfor Meirionnydd is a constituency of the Senedd, first created for the former Assembly's 2007 election. It elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of eight constituencies in the Mid and West 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

Dwyfor Meirionnydd (Senedd constituency)
Map of current boundaries

The constituency shares the boundaries of the Dwyfor Meirionnydd Westminster constituency, which came into use for the 2010 United Kingdom general election, created by merging into one constituency areas which were previously within the Caernarfon and Meirionnydd Nant Conwy constituencies.

Caernarfon was a Gwynedd constituency, entirely within the preserved county of Gwynedd, and one of nine constituencies in the North Wales region. Meirionnydd Nant Conwy was partly a Gwynedd constituency and partly a Clwyd constituency, partly within the preserved county of Gwynedd and partly within the preserved county of Clwyd, and one of eight constituencies in the Mid and West Wales electoral region.

Dwyfor Meirionnydd is a Gwynedd constituency, one of three constituencies entirely within the preserved county of Gwynedd, and one of eight constituencies in the Mid and West Wales electoral region. The other Gwynedd constituencies, however, Arfon and Ynys Môn, are within the North Wales electoral region.

The Mid and West Wales region consists of the constituencies of Brecon and Radnorshire, Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion, Dwyfor Meirionnydd, Llanelli, Montgomeryshire and Preseli Pembrokeshire.

Voting

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.

Members of the Senedd

The seat had been represented since its creation in 2007 by Dafydd Elis-Thomas of Plaid Cymru, the Assembly's former Presiding Officer. He previously represented the former constituency of Meirionnydd Nant Conwy from 1999 to 2007, and was the Westminster MP for the area from 1974 to 1992. He was succeeded by Mabon ap Gwynfor of Plaid Cymru.

PeriodMemberPartyPortrait
2007 Dafydd Elis-Thomas Plaid Cymru Dafydd Elis-Thomas 2011.jpg
2016 [1] Independent
2021 Mabon ap Gwynfor Plaid Cymru Mabon-ap-gwynfor.jpg

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

2021 Senedd election: Dwyfor Meirionnydd [2]
PartyCandidateConstituencyRegional [3]
Votes%±%Votes%±%
Plaid Cymru Mabon ap Gwynfor [a] 11,49048.3+1.010,97545.5+1.0
Conservative Charlie Evans4,39418.5+2.94,43318.4+1.8
Labour Cian Ireland3,70215.6+3.54,79419.9+6.2
Propel Peter Read1,3145.5New8213.4New
Llais GwyneddGlyn Daniels1,1364.8New
Liberal Democrats Stephen Churchman9163.9-0.65652.3-1.3
Reform UK Louise Hughes7103.0New1290.5New
Freedom Alliance (UK)Michelle Murray1520.6New1290.5New
Green 9934.1+0.3
Abolish 4681.9-1.8
UKIP 2381.0-10.4
Gwlad 2180.9New
Christian 1690.7New
Communist 620.3+0.1
TUSC 140.1New
Majority7,09629.8−1.9
Turnout 23,81447.01 [4] +0.31
Plaid Cymru hold Swing -0.95
Notes
  1. Incumbent member for this constituency

Elections in the 2010s

Welsh Assembly Election 2016: Dwyfor Meirionnydd
PartyCandidateConstituencyRegional [5]
Votes%±%Votes%±%
Plaid Cymru Dafydd Elis-Thomas 9,56647.3+0.78,94944.5-1.1
Conservative Neil Fairlamb3,16015.6-4.83,33216.6-5.9
Labour Ian MacIntyre2,44312.1-0.52,75913.7-1.0
UKIP Frank Wykes2,14910.6New2,29911.4+7.6
Independent Louise Hughes1,2596.2New
Liberal Democrats Stephen Churchman9164.5-0.37303.6-1.1
Green Alice Hooker-Stroud7433.7New7723.8-0.6
Abolish 7453.7New
Monster Raving Loony 940.5New
Welsh Christian 1120.6-0.2
Association of Welsh Independents1570.8New
People First (Wales)1210.6New
Communist 450.2-0.1
Majority6,40631.7+5.5
Turnout 20,23646.7+0.4
Plaid Cymru hold Swing +2.75
Welsh Assembly Election 2011: Dwyfor Meirionnydd
PartyCandidateConstituency [6] Regional [7]
Votes%±%Votes%±%
Plaid Cymru Dafydd Elis-Thomas 9,65646.6-13.19,46545.6-4.1
Conservative Simon Baynes 4,23920.4+0.84,66522.5+3.8
Llais Gwynedd Louise Hughes3,22515.5New
Labour Martyn Singleton2,62312.6+0.23,05914.7+1.4
Liberal Democrats Stephen Churchman1,0004.8-3.59814.7+0.6
Green 9204.4+0.3
UKIP 7993.8+1.1
Socialist Labour 3691.8+0.4
BNP 2771.3-1.2
Welsh Christian 1670.8+0.4
Communist 610.30.0
Majority5,41726.2−13.9
Turnout 20,74346.3−1.1
Plaid Cymru hold Swing -7.0

Regional ballots rejected: 132 [8]

Elections in the 2000s

Welsh Assembly Election 2007: Dwyfor Meirionnydd [n 1]
PartyCandidateConstituency [9] Regional [10]
Votes%±%Votes%±%
Plaid Cymru Dafydd Elis-Thomas 13,20159.7+2.310,96049.7N/A
Conservative Mike Wood4,33319.6+5.54,09718.7N/A
Labour David Phillips2,74912.4-9.12,94313.3N/A
Liberal Democrats Stephen Churchman1,8398.3+1.31,1595.3N/A
Green 9144.1N/A
UKIP 5972.7N/A
BNP 5452.5N/A
Socialist Labour 3051.4N/A
Gwynoro Jones - Independent1790.8N/A
Welsh Christian 950.4N/A
Communist 770.3N/A
Veritas 690.3N/A
Caroline Evans - Independent580.3N/A
CPA 540.2N/A
Majority8,86840.1
Turnout 22,12247.4+3.4
Plaid Cymru win (new seat)

2003 Electorate: 57,428
Regional ballots rejected: 227

Notes

  1. (Due to boundary changes it is only possible to compare election results from 2003 and 2007 by creating notional figures. These notional results, compiled by professors Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher of Plymouth University, take the figures from the 2003 election and apply them to the new boundaries which are being used for the first time on 3 May 2007. Notional results for this seat with regards to the list seat were not calculated.)

Due to boundary changes it is only possible to compare election results from 2003 and 2007 by creating notional figures. These notional results, compiled by professors Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher of Plymouth University, take the figures from the 2003 election and apply them to the new boundaries which are being used for the first time on 3 May 2007. Notional results for this seat with regards to the list seat were not calculated.

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