Arfon (National Assembly for Wales constituency)
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| Welsh Assembly county constituency | |
|---|---|
| To be created: | 2007 |
| Electoral region: | North Wales |
| AM: | Not yet applicable |
| Party: | Not yet applicable |
| Preserved county: | Gwynedd |
Arfon will be a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales, created for the 2007 Assembly election. It will elect one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it wil be 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.
[edit] Boundaries
The constituency will have the boundaries of the Arfon Westminster constituency, entirely within the preserved county of Gwynedd, which will come into use, also, for the next United Kingdom general election. The new constituency merges together areas currently within the Caernarfon constituency and the Conwy constituency. The Caernarfon constituency is entirely within the preserved county of Gwynedd. The Conwy constituency is partly a Gwynedd constituency and partly within the perserved county of Clwyd.
The North Wales region was created for the first Assembly election, in 1999. For the 2007 election, however, it will have new boundaries. It will include the constituencies of Aberconwy, Alyn and Deeside, Arfon, Clwyd South, Clwyd West, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Electoral History 2007 onwards
The constituency of Arfon held it's last election in 1945 before being merged with the Caernarfon Boroughs constituency to create the Caernarfon county constituency. On March 15th 2007, the Press Association released figures calculated by Professors Thrasher and Rallings for the new constituency based on the 2003 Assembly Elections
| National Assembly Election 2003: Arfon | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Plaid Cymru | 9,557 | 49.34% | |||
| Labour | 5,922 | 30.58% | |||
| Conservative | 2,510 | 12.96% | |||
| Liberal Democrats | 1,379 | 7.12% | |||
| Majority | 3,635 | 18.77% | |||
| Turnout | 19,368 | 45.04% | |||
| Plaid Cymru hold | Swing | ||||
