| Welsh Assembly county constituency | |
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| Caerphilly shown as one of the 40 Welsh Assembly constituencies |
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| Created: | 1999 |
| Electoral region: | South Wales East |
| AM: | Jeffrey Cuthbert |
| Party: | Labour |
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.
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The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Caerphilly Westminster constituency.
The other seven constituencies of the South Wales East electoral region are Blaenau Gwent, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Monmouth, Newport East, Newport West and Torfaen.
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.
| Period | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 - 2003 | Ron Davies | Labour Party | |
| 2003 - present | Jeffrey Cuthbert | Labour Party | |
| Assembly Election 2011: Caerphilly[1] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Jeff Cuthbert | 12,521 | 49.0 | +14.4 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Ron Davies | 7,597 | 29.7 | +3.9 | |
| Conservative | Owen Meredith | 3,368 | 13.2 | +1.9 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Kay David | 1,062 | 4.2 | -2 | |
| BNP | Anthony King | 1,022 | 4.0 | N/A | |
| Majority | 4,924 | 19.3 | |||
| Turnout | 25,570 | 41.5 | -0.6 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | +5.2 | |||
| 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 Democrats | 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 Democrats | Rob Roffe | 1,281 | 5.1 | ||
| Independent | Anne Blackman | 1,204 | 4.8 | N/A | |
| Independent | Avril Dafydd-Lewis | 930 | 3.7 | N/A | |
| UKIP | 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 Democrats | 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 | ||||