Cardiff South and Penarth (Assembly constituency)

Not to be confused with Cardiff South and Penarth (UK Parliament constituency).

For the geographical area, see Cardiff South (disambiguation).

Cardiff South and Penarth National Assembly for Wales borough constituency
Cardiff South and Penarth shown within the South Wales Central electoral region and the region shown within Wales
Created:	1999
AM:	Vaughan Gething
Party:	Labour
Preserved county:	South Glamorgan

Cardiff South and Penarth (Welsh: De Caerdydd a Phenarth) is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post electoral system. It is typically a safe Labour seat.

Constituency Profile & Voting

The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Cardiff South and Penarth Westminster constituency. It is entirely within the preserved county of South Glamorgan. The only major boundary changes that have occurred in recent years is the inclusion of the ward of Sully into the constituency for the Welsh Assembly Election 2007.

Cardiff South and Penarth is part of the South Wales Central region. As one of the eight constituencies in South Wales Central, it, along with the other constituencies in the region, elect four additional members. The other seven constituencies of the region are Cardiff Central, Cardiff North, Cardiff West, Cynon Valley, Pontypridd, Rhondda and Vale of Glamorgan.

The use of the Additional Member System means that each voter has two votes. The first vote is for a candidate to become the Assembly Member for the voter's constituency, elected under the first past the post system. The second vote is used to vote for a regional closed party list of candidates. Additional member's seats are allocated from the lists by the d'Hondt method, to create a more proportional outcome in both the region and Welsh Assembly.

Assembly Members

Period		Member	Party
	1999 - 2011	Lorraine Barrett	Labour Co-operative
	2011 - Present	Vaughan Gething	Labour

Elections

Assembly Election 2011: Cardiff South and Penarth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Vaughan Gething	13,814	50.3	+12.5
	Conservative	Ben Gray	7,555	27.5	0
	Plaid Cymru	Liz Musa	3,324	12.1	-2.2
	Liberal Democrats	Sian Anne Cliff	2,786	10.1	-10.2
Majority			6,259	22.8	+12.5
Turnout			27,479	37.3	-0.2
	Labour hold		Swing	+6.2

Assembly Election 2007: Cardiff South and Penarth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Lorraine Barrett	10,106	37.8	-6.8
	Conservative	Karen Robson	7,352	27.5	+3.3
	Liberal Democrats	Dominic Hannigan	5,445	20.4	+4.7
	Plaid Cymru	Jason Toby	3,825	14.3	+1.7
Majority			2,754	10.3	-10.1
Turnout			26,728	37.5	+6.8
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing	-4.2

Assembly Election 2003: Cardiff South and Penarth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Lorraine Barrett	8,978	44.6	-3.4
	Conservative	Dianne Rees	4,864	24.2	+5.7
	Liberal Democrats	Rodney Berman	3,154	15.7	+3.2
	Plaid Cymru	Richard Grigg	2,538	12.6	-4.5
	Socialist Alternative	David Bartlett	585	2.9	+1.4
Majority			4,114	20.4	-9.1
Turnout			20,119	30.7	-7.1
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

Assembly Election 1999: Cardiff South and Penarth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Lorraine Barrett	11,057	48.0
	Conservative	Mary Davies	4,254	18.5
	Plaid Cymru	John Rowlands	3,931	17.1
	Liberal Democrats	Jane Maw-Cornish	2,890	12.5
	Socialist Alliance	David Bartlett	355	1.5
	Independent Labour	John Foreman	339	1.5
	Celtic Alliance	Tom Davies	210	0.9
Majority			6,803	29.5
Turnout			23,036	37.8
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing