Clwyd South (Assembly constituency)

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Not to be confused with Clwyd South (UK Parliament constituency).
Clwyd South
National Assembly for Wales
county constituency
Clwyd South shown within the
North Wales electoral region and the region shown within Wales
Created: 1999
AM: Karen Sinclair
Party: Labour
Preserved county: Clwyd and Powys

Clwyd South 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.

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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 Clwyd South Westminster constituency. It is mostly within the preserved county of Clwyd and partly within the preserved county of Powys.

For the 2007 Assembly election, however, it became a constituency entirely within Clwyd. Part of its area was transferred to the Montgomeryshire constituency, in Powys. Also, part of its area wastransferred to another Clwyd constituency, Clwyd West. For Westminster purposes, the same boundary changes will become effective at the next United Kingdom general election.

As created in 1999, the North Wales region includes the constituencies of Alyn and Deeside, Caernarfon, Clwyd West, Clwyd South, Conwy, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn. For the 2007 election the region will include Aberconwy, Alyn and Deeside, Arfon, Clwyd South, Clwyd West, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn.

For the period 1999 to 2007, the Clwyd South constituency can be described as constisting of electoral divisions as follows:

  • Within Denbighshire:
    • Corwen, Llandrillo and Llangollen
  • Within Wrexham:
    • Bronington, Brymbo, Bryn Cefn, Cefn, Chirk North, Chirk South, Coedpoeth, Dyffryn Ceiriog/Ceiriog Valley, Esclusham, Gwenfro, Johnstown, Llangollen Rural, Marchwiel, Minera, New Broughton, Overton, Pant, Penycae, Penycae and Ruabon South, Plas Madoc, Ponciau and Ruabon

[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 Karen Sinclair Labour Party

[edit] Constituency Election results

Welsh Assembly Election, 2007: Clwyd South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Karen Sinclair 6,838 35.1 -1.4
Conservative John Bell 5,719 29.3 +10.3
Plaid Cymru Nia Davies 3,894 20.0 -1.0
Liberal Democrat Frank Biggs 1,838 9.4 +0.5
UK Independence David Rowlands 1209 6.2 +3.5
Majority 1,119 5.7 -9.8
Turnout 19,498 37.9 +3.5
Labour hold Swing
Welsh Assembly Election, 2003: Clwyd South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Karen Sinclair 6,814 36.5 -5.6
Plaid Cymru Dyfed Edwards 3,923 21.0 -4.2
Conservative Albert Fox 3,548 19.0 -0.1
Independent Marc Jones 2,210 11.8
Liberal Democrat Derek Burnham 1,666 8.9 -2.2
UK Independence Edwina Theunissen 501 2.7
Majority 2,891 15.5 -1.9
Turnout 18,662 34.4 -6.1
Labour hold Swing
Welsh Assembly Election, 1999: Clwyd South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Karen Sinclair 9,196 42.2
Plaid Cymru Hywel Williams 5,511 25.3
Conservative David R Jones 4,167 19.1
Liberal Democrat Derek Burnham 2,432 11.2
Independent Maurice Jones 508 2.3
Majority 3,685 17.4
Turnout 21,814 40.5
Labour hold Swing n/a

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