| Welsh Assembly county constituency | |
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| Newport East shown as one of the 40 Welsh Assembly constituencies |
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| Created: | 1999 |
| Electoral region: | South Wales East |
| AM: | Rosemary Butler |
| Party: | Labour |
Newport West 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 Newport West Westminster constituency.
The other seven constituencies of the South Wales East electoral region are Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Islwyn, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Monmouth, Newport East 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.
| Welsh Assembly election 2011: Newport West[1] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Rosemary Butler | 12,011 | 52.2 | +11.7 | |
| Conservative | David Williams | 7,791 | 33.9 | -0.7 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Lyndon Binding | 1,626 | 7.1 | -3.3 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Elizabeth Newton | 1,586 | 6.9 | -5 | |
| Majority | 4,220 | 18.3 | +12.4 | ||
| Turnout | 23,014 | 36.8 | -3.3 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | +6.2 | |||
| Welsh Assembly election 2007: Newport West | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Rosemary Butler | 9,582 | 40.5 | -6.4 | |
| Conservative | Matthew Evans | 8,181 | 34.6 | +5.2 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Nigel Flanagan | 2,813 | 11.9 | +2.1 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Brian Hancock | 2,449 | 10.4 | +2.5 | |
| English Democrats | Andrew Constantine | 634 | 2.7 | N/A | |
| Majority | 1,401 | 5.9 | -11.6 | ||
| Turnout | 23,659 | 40.1 | +5.5 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -5.8 | |||
| Welsh Assembly election 2003: Newport West | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Rosemary Butler | 10,053 | 46.9 | -0.7 | |
| Conservative | William Graham | 6,301 | 29.4 | +1.2 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Phylip Hobson | 2,094 | 9.8 | -1.9 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Anthony Salkeld | 1,678 | 7.8 | -4.8 | |
| Socialist Alliance | Andrew Constantine | 198 | 0.9 | N/A | |
| Majority | 3,752 | 17.5 | -1.9 | ||
| Turnout | 21,617 | 34.6 | -7.7 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Welsh Assembly election 1999: Newport West | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Rosemary Butler | 11,538 | 47.6 | N/A | |
| Conservative | William Graham | 6,828 | 28.2 | N/A | |
| Plaid Cymru | Bob Vickery | 3,053 | 12.6 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrats | Veronica Watkins | 2,820 | 11.6 | N/A | |
| Majority | 4,710 | 19.4 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 24,239 | 42.3 | N/A | ||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
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