| Llanelli National Assembly for Wales county constituency |
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| Llanelli shown within the Mid and West Wales electoral region and the region shown within Wales |
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| Created: | 1999 |
| AM: | Keith Davies |
| Party: | Labour |
| Preserved county: | Dyfed |
Llanelli 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 Mid and West Wales 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 Llanelli Westminster constituency. It is a Dyfed constituency, one of five constituencies covering, and entirely within, the preserved county of Dyfed.
The other four Dyfed constituencies are Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Preseli Pembrokeshire. They are all within the Mid and West Wales electoral region.
The region consists of the eight constituencies of Brecon and Radnorshire, Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion, Llanelli, Meirionnydd Nant Conwy, Montgomeryshire and Preseli Pembrokeshire.
Boundaries changed for the 2007 Assembly election. Llanelli remained one of five Dyfed constituencies and one of eight constituencies in the Mid and West Wales region. However, boundaries within Dyfed changed, to realign them with local government ward boundaries and to reduce disparities in the sizes of constituency electorates, and the boundaries of the region changed, to align them with the boundaries of preserved counties.
The other four Dyfed constituencies were, again, Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Preseli Pembrokeshire, all within the Mid and West Wales electoral region.
The region consisted of the constituencies of Brecon and Radnorshire, Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion, Dwyfor Meirionnydd, Llanelli, Montgomeryshire and Preseli Pembrokeshire.
For Westminster purposes, the same new constituency boundaries will become effective for the 2010 United Kingdom general election.
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.
It is a marginal seat between Plaid and the Labour Party and has never been held by the same party for more than one term with Plaid and Labour alternating
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1999 | Helen Mary Jones | Plaid Cymru | |
| 2003 | Catherine Thomas | Labour | |
| 2007 | Helen Mary Jones | Plaid Cymru | |
| 2011 | Keith Davies | Labour | |
| Assembly election 2011: Llanelli | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Keith Davies | 10,359 | 39.7 | +3.7 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Helen Mary Jones | 10,279 | 39.4 | -10.7 | |
| Conservative | Andrew Morgan | 2,880 | 11 | +1.1 | |
| Putting Llanelli First | Siân Caiach | 2,004 | 7.7 | +7.7 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Cheryl Philpott | 548 | 2.1 | -1.7 | |
| Majority | 80 | 0.3 | |||
| Turnout | 26,070 | 44.6 | |||
| Labour gain from Plaid Cymru | Swing | +7.2 | |||
| Assembly Election 2007: Llanelli | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Plaid Cymru | Helen Mary Jones | 13,839 | 50.1 | +7.4 | |
| Labour | Catherine Thomas | 9,955 | 36.1 | -6.7 | |
| Conservative | Andrew Morgan | 2,757 | 10.0 | +2.6 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Jeremy Townsend | 1,051 | 3.8 | -3.3 | |
| Majority | 3,884 | 14.1 | |||
| Turnout | 27,602 | 49.2 | +8.9 | ||
| Plaid Cymru gain from Labour | Swing | 7.1 | |||
| Assembly Election 2003: Llanelli | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Catherine Thomas | 9,916 | 42.8 | +3.1 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Helen Mary Jones | 9,895 | 42.8 | +0.5 | |
| Conservative | Gareth Jones | 1,712 | 7.4 | +4.2 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Ken Rees | 1,644 | 6.1 | -3.2 | |
| Majority | 21 | 0.09 | |||
| Turnout | 23,167 | ||||
| Labour gain from Plaid Cymru | Swing | 1.26 | |||
| Assembly Election 1999: Llanelli | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Plaid Cymru | Helen Mary Jones | 11,973 | 42.1 | N/A | |
| Labour | Ann Garrard | 11,285 | 39.7 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrats | Tim Dumper | 2,920 | 10.3 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Barrie Harding | 1,864 | 6.6 | N/A | |
| Independent | Anthony Popham | 345 | 1.3 | N/A | |
| Majority | 688 | 2.4 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 28,387 | 48.9 | N/A | ||
| Plaid Cymru win (new seat) | |||||
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