Welsh Assembly county constituency | |
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Monmouth shown as one of the 40 Welsh Assembly constituencies |
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Created: | 1999 |
Electoral region: | South Wales East |
AM: | Nick Ramsay |
Party: | Conservative |
Monmouth 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 Monmouth Westminster constituency.
The other seven constituencies of the South Wales East electoral region are Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Islwyn, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, 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.
Election | Member | Party | |
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1999-2007 | David Davies | Conservative | |
2007-present | Nick Ramsay | Conservative |
Welsh Assembly election 2011: Monmouth | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Nick Ramsay | 15,087 | 50.3 | -1.8 | |
Labour | Mark Whitcutt[1] | 8,970 | 29.9 | +6.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Janet Ellard | 2,937 | 9.8 | -5.0 | |
Plaid Cymru | Fiona Cross[2] | 2,263 | 7.5 | +0.5 | |
English Democrats | Steve Uncles | 744 | 2.5 | -0.2 | |
Majority | 6,117 | 20.4 | |||
Turnout | 30,001 | 46.1 |
Welsh Assembly election 2007: Monmouth | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Nick Ramsay | 15,389 | 52.0 | -5.5 | |
Labour | Richard Clark | 6,920 | 23.4 | -3.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jacqui Sullivan | 4,359 | 14.7 | +4.0 | |
Plaid Cymru | Jonathan Clark | 2,093 | 7.1 | +2.2 | |
English Democrats | Ed Abrams | 804 | 2.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,469 | 28.6 | |||
Turnout | 29,565 | 46.9 | +2.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Welsh Assembly election 2003: Monmouth | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | David Thomas Charles Davies | 15,989 | 57.5 | ||
Labour | Sian James | 7,479 | 26.9 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Alison Willott | 2,973 | 10.7 | ||
Plaid Cymru | Stephen Thomas | 1,355 | 4.9 | ||
Majority | 8,510 | 30.6 | |||
Turnout | 44.2 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Welsh Assembly election 1999: Monmouth | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | David Thomas Charles Davies | 12,950 | 40.9 | ||
Labour | Cherry Short | 10,238 | 32.3 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Chris Lines | 4,639 | 14.6 | ||
Plaid Cymru | Marc Hubbard | 1,964 | 6.2 | ||
Tourism and Farmers | Anthony Carrington | 1,911 | 6.0 | ||
Majority | 2,712 | ||||
Turnout | 51.1 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |