Caernarfon (National Assembly for Wales constituency)
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| Caernarfon shown as one of the 40 Welsh Assembly constituencies |
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| Created: | 1999 |
| Electoral region: | North Wales |
| AM: | Alun Ffred Jones |
| Party: | Plaid Cymru |
| Preserved county: | Gwynedd |
Caernarfon is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is 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 was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Caernarfon Westminster constituency. It is entirely within the preserved county of Gwynedd.
The other eight constituencies of the region are Alyn and Deeside, Clwyd West, Clwyd South, Conwy, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn.
The constituency will be replaced for the 2007 election. Partly the area will be within the Arfon constituency, and partly within the Dwyfor Meirionnydd constituency, both constituencies entirely within the preserved county of Gwynedd. The Arfon constituency will be within the North Wales electoral region. The Dwyfor Meirionnydd constituency will be within the Mid and West Wales electoral region.
[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.
