Cardiff West (Assembly constituency)

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Not to be confused with Cardiff West (UK Parliament constituency).
Cardiff West
National Assembly for Wales
borough constituency
Cardiff West shown within the
South Wales Central electoral region and the region shown within Wales
Created: 1999
AM: Rhodri Morgan
Party: Wales Labour Party
Preserved county: South Glamorgan

Cardiff West 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 Central 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.

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[edit] Boundaries

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

The other seven constituencies of the region are Cardiff Central, Cardiff North, Cardiff South and Penarth, Cynon Valley, Pontypridd, Rhondda and Vale of Glamorgan.

[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 - present Rhodri Morgan Labour Party

[edit] Elections

Assembly Election 2007: Cardiff West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Rhodri Morgan 10,390 38.6 -10.4
Conservative Craig Williams 6,692 24.9 +7.1
Plaid Cymru Neil McEvoy 5,719 21.3 +5.8
Liberal Democrat Alison Goldsworthy 4,088 15.2 +1.6
Majority 3,698 13.8 -17.5
Turnout 26,889 41.6
Labour hold Swing
Assembly Election 2003: Cardiff West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Rhodri Morgan 10,420 50.3 -11.3
Conservative Heather Douglas 3,583 17.3 +2.5
Liberal Democrat Jaqueline-Anne Gasson 2,914 14.1 +5.2
Plaid Cymru Eluned Bush 2,859 13.8 -0.8
UK Independence Frank Hughes 929 4.5 +4.5
Majority 6,837 33.0 -13.8
Turnout 21,413 35.4 -5.1
Labour hold Swing
Assembly Election 1999: Cardiff West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Rhodri Morgan 14,305 61.6
Conservative Myr Boult 3,446 14.8
Plaid Cymru Eluned Bush 3,402 14.7
Liberal Democrat Dewi Garrow-Smith 2,063 8.9
Majority 10,859 46.8
Turnout 23,216 40.3
Labour hold Swing
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