Caerphilly (National Assembly for Wales constituency)

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Not to be confused with Caerphilly (UK Parliament constituency).

**Caerphilly**
Welsh Assembly county constituency

Caerphilly shown as one of the 40 Welsh Assembly constituencies
Created:	1999
Electoral region:	South Wales East
AM:	Jeffrey Cuthbert
Party:	Labour
Preserved county:	Gwent

Caerphilly 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 eight constituencies in the South Wales East electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to eight constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

1 Boundaries
2 Voting
3 Assembly Members
4 Results

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Caerphilly Westminster constituency. It is entirely within the preserved county of Gwent.

The other seven constituencies of the region are Blaenau Gwent, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Monmouth, Newport East, Newport West and Torfaen.

[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
	1999 - 2003	Ron Davies	Labour Party
	2003 - present	Jeffrey Cuthbert	Labour Party

[edit] Results

Welsh Assembly election 2007: Caerphilly
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jeff Cuthbert	9,026	34.6	-10.8
	Plaid Cymru	Lindsay Whittle	6,739	25.8	-2.2
	Independent	Ron Davies	5,805	22.2	N/A
	Conservative	Richard Foley	2,954	11.3	+1.2
	Liberal Democrat	Huw Price	1,596	6.1	+1.1
Majority			2,287	8.8
Turnout			26,120	42.1	+5.1
	Labour hold		Swing

Welsh Assembly election 2003: Caerphilly
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jeff Cuthbert	11,893	47.1
	Plaid Cymru	Lindsay Whittle	6,919	27.4
	Conservative	Laura Jones	2,570	10.2
	Liberal Democrat	Rob Roffe	1,281	5.1
	Independent	Anne Blackman	1,204	4.8	N/A
	Independent	Avril Dafydd-Lewis	930	3.7	N/A
	UK Independence	Brenda Vipass	590	2.3	N/A
Majority			4,974	19.6
Turnout				36.8
	Labour hold		Swing

Welsh Assembly election 1999: Caerphilly
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ron Davies	12,602	44.2	N/A
	Plaid Cymru	Robert Gough	9,741	34.2	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	Michael German	3,543	12.4	N/A
	Conservative	Mary Taylor	2,213	7.8	N/A
	United Socialist	Timothy Richards	412	1.5	N/A
Majority			2,861		N/A
Turnout				43.2	N/A
	Labour hold		Swing