Dwyfor Meirionnydd (National Assembly for Wales constituency)
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| Welsh Assembly county constituency | |
|---|---|
| To be created: | 2007 |
| Electoral region: | Mid and West Wales |
| AM: | Not yet applicable |
| Party: | Not yet applicable |
| Preserved county: | Gwynedd |
Dwyfor Meirionnydd 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 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.
[edit] Boundaries
The constituency will have the boundaries of the Dwyfor Meirionnydd Westminster constituency, which will come into use for the next United Kingdom general election, created by merging into one constituency areas which are currently within the Caernarfon and Meirionnydd Nant Conwy constituencies.
Caernarfon is a Gwynedd constituency, entirely within the preserved county of Gwynedd, and one of nine constituencies in the North Wales region. Meirionnydd Nant Conwy is 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 will be 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, will be within the North Wales electoral region.
The Mid and West Wales region will consist of the constituencies of Brecon and Radnorshire, Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion, Dwyfor Meirionnydd, Llanelli, Montgomeryshire and Preseli Pembrokeshire.
[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.
