Arfon (Assembly constituency)

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Arfon National Assembly for Wales county constituency
Arfon shown within the North Wales electoral region and the region shown within Wales
Created:	2007
AM:	Alun Ffred Jones
Party:	Plaid Cymru
Preserved county:	Gwynedd

Arfon is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales, created for the 2007 Assembly election. 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.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Voting 3 Assembly Members 4 Elections

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency has 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 merged together areas currently within the Caernarfon constituency and the Conwy constituency. The Caernarfon constituency was entirely within the preserved county of Gwynedd. The Conwy constituency was partly a Gwynedd constituency and partly within the preserved county of Clwyd.

The North Wales region was created for the first Assembly election, in 1999. For the 2007 election, however, it had new boundaries. It includes 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] Assembly Members

Period		Member	Party
	2007 to present	Alun Ffred Jones	Plaid Cymru

[edit] Elections

Assembly Election 2007: Arfon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Alun Ffred Jones	10,260	52.4
	Labour	Martin Eaglestone	5,242	26.8
	Conservative	Gerry Frobisher	1,858	9.5
	Liberal Democrat	Mel ab Owain	1,424	7.3
	UK Independence	Elwyn Williams	789	4.0
Majority			5,018	25.6
Turnout			19,573	49.1
	Plaid Cymru hold		Swing

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