Conwy (Assembly constituency)

Last updated August 23, 2023

**Conwy**
Former Welsh Assembly county constituency

Conwy shown as one of the 40 Welsh Assembly constituencies from 1999 to 2007
Created:	1999
Abolished:	2007
Electoral region:	North Wales
Preserved counties:	Clwyd and Gwynedd

Conwy was a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales from 1999 to 2007. It elected one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election. It was also one of nine constituencies in the North Wales electoral region, which elected four additional members, in addition to nine constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.^[1]

Boundaries

The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Conwy Westminster constituency. It was partly within the preserved county of Clwyd and partly within the preserved county of Gwynedd.^[2]

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

The Conwy constituency was replaced for the 2007 Assembly election. Its area became partly within the Arfon constituency, and partly within the Aberconwy constituency. Arfon is entirely within the preserved county of Gwynedd and Aberconwy is entirely within the preserved county of Clwyd. Both of these constituencies are in the North Wales electoral region. For Westminster purposes, the new constituency boundaries became effective from the 2010 United Kingdom general election.^[3]

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.^[4]

Members of the National Assembly for Wales

Election		Member	Party
	1999	Gareth Jones	Plaid Cymru
	2003	Denise Idris Jones	Labour
2007		constituency abolished; see Arfon and Aberconwy

Election Results

Welsh Assembly Election 2003: Conwy
Party		Candidate	Constituency			Regional^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Denise Idris Jones	6,467	30.9	+0.8	6,462	30.9	+0.2
	Plaid Cymru	Gareth Jones	6,395	30.6	0.0	5,283	25.3	-5.1
	Conservative	Guto Bebb	5,152	24.6	+6.1	4,671	22.3	+3.4
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Rees	2,914	13.9	−2.6	2,575	12.3	-3.1
	Green					725	3.5	+0.9
	UKIP					549	2.6	New
	John Marek Independent Party					408	2.0	New
	Cymru Annibynnol					130	0.6	New
	Communist					79	0.4	+0.2
	ProLife Alliance					30	0.1	New
Majority			72	0.3	N/A
Turnout			20,928	38.4	−10.8
	Labour gain from Plaid Cymru		Swing	+0.4

2003 Electorate: 55,291
Regional ballots rejected: 273

Welsh Assembly Election 1999: Conwy^[6]
Party		Candidate	Constituency			Regional
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Gareth Jones	8,285	30.6	N/A	8,306	30.4
	Labour	Cath Sherrington	8,171	30.1	N/A	8,383	30.7
	Conservative	David Jones	5,006	18.5	N/A	5,171	18.9
	Liberal Democrats	Christine Humphreys	4,480	16.5	N/A	4,189	15.4
	Independent	Goronwy Edwards	1,160	4.3	N/A
	Green					715	2.6
	Natural Law					312	1.1
	Socialist Alliance					118	0.4
	Communist					68	0.2
	Rhuddlan Debt Protest Campaign					26	0.1
Majority			114	0.5	N/A
Turnout			27,102	49.2	N/A
	Plaid Cymru win (new seat)

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References

↑ "Elections (Wales)". politics.co.uk. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
↑ Criddle, Byron; Waller, Robert (2007). The Almanac of British Politics. Routledge. p. 258. ISBN 978-0415378239.
↑ Assembly Constituencies and Electoral Regions National Assembly for Wales, Jan. 2007. Accessed 14 April 2020
↑ Altunbas, Yener (2002). Public Choice. Vol. 111, No. 1/2. Springer. pp. 185–193.
↑ The National Assembly for Wales elections 2003. The Electoral Commission. November 2003. pp. 110–115. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
↑ "National Assembly for Wales Elections (Constituency) 1999 - Thursday, 6 May 1999". National Assembly for Wales. Retrieved 14 April 2020.

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[1] "Elections (Wales)". politics.co.uk. Retrieved 14 April 2020.

[2] Criddle, Byron; Waller, Robert (2007). The Almanac of British Politics. Routledge. p. 258. ISBN 978-0415378239.

[3] Assembly Constituencies and Electoral Regions National Assembly for Wales, Jan. 2007. Accessed 14 April 2020

[4] Altunbas, Yener (2002). Public Choice. Vol. 111, No. 1/2. Springer. pp. 185–193.

[5] The National Assembly for Wales elections 2003. The Electoral Commission. November 2003. pp. 110–115. Retrieved 1 August 2021.

[6] "National Assembly for Wales Elections (Constituency) 1999 - Thursday, 6 May 1999". National Assembly for Wales. Retrieved 14 April 2020.

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