Gower (National Assembly for Wales constituency)

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Gower

Welsh Assembly county constituency
Gower shown as one of the 40 Welsh Assembly constituencies
Created:	1999
Electoral region:	South Wales West
AM:	Edwina Hart
Party:	Labour
Preserved county:	West Glamorgan

Gower 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 seven constituencies in the South Wales West electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to seven 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 was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Gower Westminster constituency. It is entirely within the preserved county of West Glamorgan.

The other six constituencies of the region are Aberavon, Bridgend, Neath, Ogmore, Swansea East and Swansea West.

[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	Edwina Hart	Labour Party

[edit] Elections

Assembly Election 2007: Gower
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Edwina Hart	9,406	34.2	-9.4
	Conservative	Byron Davies	8,214	29.8	+10.2
	Plaid Cymru	Darren Price	5,106	18.5	+3.8
	Liberal Democrat	Nick Tregoning	2,924	10.6	-1.1
	UK Independence	Alex Lewis	1,895	6.9	+2.8
Majority			1,192	4.3
Turnout			27,545	44.8	+5.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Assembly Election 2003: Gower
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Edwina Hart	10,334	43.6	+8.2
	Conservative	Stephen James	4,646	19.6	+5.5
	Plaid Cymru	Sian Caiach	3,502	14.8	-9.2
	Liberal Democrat	Nicholas Tregoning	2,775	11.7	-0.1
	UK Independence	Richard Lewis	2,444	10.3	+10.3
Majority			5,688	24.0	+12.6
Turnout			24,143	39.9	-7.7
	Labour hold		Swing

Assembly Election 1999: Gower
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Edwina Hart	9,813	35.4
	Plaid Cymru	Dyfan Rhys Jones	6,653	24.0
	Conservative	Aled Jones	3,912	14.1
	Liberal Democrat	Howard Evans	3,260	11.8
	Independent	Richard Lewis	2,307	8.3
	Independent	Ioan Richard	1,755	6.3
Majority			3,160	11.4
Turnout			27,700	47.5
	Labour hold		Swing