| Welsh Assembly electoral region | |
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| Created 1999 |
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| Current representation | |
| Labour | 6 AMs |
| Conservative | 3 AMs |
| Plaid Cymru | 1 AM |
| Liberal Democrats | 1 AMs |
| Independent | 1 AM |
| Constituencies 1. Blaenau Gwent 2. Caerphilly 3. Islwyn 4. Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney 5. Monmouth 6. Newport East 7. Newport West 8. Torfaen |
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| Preserved counties Gwent Mid Glamorgan (part) |
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South Wales East is an electoral region of the National Assembly for Wales, consisting of eight constituencies. The region elects 12 members, eight directly elected constituency members and four additional members. The electoral region was first used in 1999, when the National Assembly for Wales was created.
Each constituency elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post electoral system, and the region as a whole elects four additional or top-up Assembly Members, to create a degree of proportional representation. The additional member seats are allocated from closed lists by the d'Hondt method, with constituency results being taken into account in the allocation.
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The region covers the whole of the preserved county of Gwent and part of the preserved county of Mid Glamorgan. The rest of Mid Glamorgan is mostly within the South Wales Central electoral region and partly within the South Wales West region.
The region is one of contrasts; it includes the city of Newport, along with the town of Caerphilly. It also takes in the working-class former mining town of Merthyr Tydfil, one of the most deprived towns in the UK, but also rural Monmouthshire, one of the most affluent parts of Wales.
The nine constituencies have the names and boundaries of constituencies of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster):
| Constituency | 2011 Result | Preserved counties | |
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| Blaenau Gwent | Alun Davies Labour |
Entirely within Gwent | |
| Caerphilly | Jeffrey Cuthbert Labour |
Entirely within Gwent | |
| Islwyn | Gwyn Price Labour |
Entirely within Gwent | |
| Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | Huw Lewis Labour & Co-operative |
Partly Gwent partly Mid Glamorgan |
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| Monmouth | Nick Ramsay Conservative |
Entirely within Gwent | |
| Newport East | John Griffiths Labour & Co-operative |
Entirely within Gwent | |
| Newport West | Rosemary Butler Labour |
Entirely within Gwent | |
| Torfaen | Lynne Neagle Labour |
Entirely within Gwent | |
| Party | Constituency Seats | List Votes (vote %) | D'Hondt Entitlement | Additional Members Elected | Total Members Elected | Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 7 | 82,699 (45.7%) | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |
| Conservative | 1 | 35,459 (19.6%) | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | |
| Plaid Cymru | 0 | 21,851 (12.1%) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 0 | 10,798 (6.0%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| UKIP | 0 | 9,526 (5.3%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| BNP | 0 | 6,485 (3.6%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Green | 0 | 4,857 (2.7%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Socialist Labour | 0 | 4,427 (2.4%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Welsh Christian | 0 | 2,441 (1.3%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| English Democrats | 0 | 1,904 (1.1%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Communist | 0 | 578 (0.3%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Party | Constituency Seats | List Votes (vote %) | D'Hondt Entitlement | Additional Members Elected | Total Members Elected | Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 6 | 67,998 (35.8%) | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |
| Conservative | 1 | 37,935 (20.0%) | 3 | 1 | 2 | -1 | |
| Plaid Cymru | 0 | 25,915 (13.6%) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 0 | 20,947 (11.0%) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| BNP | 0 | 8,940 (4.7%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Green | 0 | 5,414 (2.8%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| UKIP | 0 | 8,725 (4.6%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independent | 0 | 4,876 (2.6%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Socialist Labour | 0 | 3,694 (1.9%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Welsh Christian | 0 | 2,498 (1.3%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| English Democrats | 0 | 1,655 (0.9%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Communist | 0 | 979 (0.5%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Christian Peoples | 0 | 489 (0.3%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
On 8th December 2009, Plaid Cymru list member for South Wales East defected to the Conservative Party, giving Plaid one AM, and the Conservatives three.[2]
| Party | Constituency Seats | List Votes (vote %) | D'Hondt Entitlement | Additional Members Elected | Total Members Elected | Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement | |
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| Labour | 7 | 76,522 (45.08%) | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |
| Conservative | 1 | 34,231 (20.17%) | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | |
| Plaid Cymru | 0 | 21,384 (12.60%) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 0 | 17,661 (10.41%) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| UKIP | 0 | 5,949 (3.50%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Green | 0 | 5,291 (3.12%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Socialist Labour | 0 | 3,695 (2.18%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| BNP | 0 | 3,210 (1.89%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cymru Annibynnol | 0 | 1,226 (0.72%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| ProLife Alliance | 0 | 562 (0.33%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Party | Constituency Seats | List Votes (vote %) | D'Hondt Entitlement | Additional Members Elected | Total Members Elected | Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 6 | 83,953 (41.45%) | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |
| Plaid Cymru | 1 | 49,139 (24.26%) | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | |
| Conservative | 1 | 33,947 (16.76%) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 1 | 24,757 (12.22%) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | |
| Socialist Labour | 0 | 4,879 (2.41%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Green | 0 | 4,055 (2.00%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Socialist Alliance | 0 | 903 (0.45%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Natural Law | 0 | 898 (0.44%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
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