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|rowspan="4"|[[David Rowlands (Welsh politician)|David Rowlands]]<br>[[UK Independence Party|UKIP]]<br><small>(later [[Brexit Party|BREX]])
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|''2019''<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-46810071</ref><ref>In 2019 Mark Reckless left the Conservative Group to become Independent.</ref>
|''2019''<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-46810071</ref><ref>In 2019 Mark Reckless left the Conservative Group to become Independent.</ref>
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Revision as of 19:04, 16 June 2020

South Wales East
Senedd electoral region
Created
1999
Current representation
Labour 7 AMs
Conservative 2 AMs
Brexit Party 2 AMs
Plaid Cymru 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
Preserved counties
Gwent
Mid Glamorgan (part)

South Wales East is an electoral region of the Senedd, 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 Member of the Senedd by the first past the post electoral system, and the region as a whole elects four additional or top-up Members of the Senedd, 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.

County boundaries

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.

Electoral region profile

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.

Constituencies

The eight constituencies have the names and boundaries of constituencies of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster):

Constituency 2016 Result Preserved counties
Blaenau Gwent style="width: 3px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Labour/meta/color| Alun Davies
Labour 		Entirely within Gwent
Caerphilly style="width: 3px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Labour/meta/color| Hefin David
Labour 		Entirely within Gwent
Islwyn style="width: 3px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Labour/meta/color| Rhianon Passmore
Labour 		Entirely within Gwent
Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney style="width: 3px" bgcolor=Template:Labour Co-operative/meta/color| Dawn Bowden
Welsh Labour 		Partly Gwent
partly Mid Glamorgan
Monmouth style="width: 3px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/color| Nick Ramsay
Conservative 		Entirely within Gwent
Newport East style="width: 3px" bgcolor=Template:Labour Co-operative/meta/color| John Griffiths
Labour & Co-operative 		Entirely within Gwent
Newport West style="width: 3px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Labour/meta/color| Jayne Bryant
Labour 		Entirely within Gwent
Torfaen style="width: 3px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Labour/meta/color| Lynne Neagle
Labour 		Entirely within Gwent

Assembly members and Members of the Senedd

Constituency AMs and MSs

Term Election Blaenau Gwent Caerphilly Islwyn Merthyr Tydfil
and Rhymney 		Monmouth Newport East Newport West Torfaen
1st 1999 bgcolor="Template:Welsh Labour/meta/color" rowspan="2"| Peter Law
(Lab)
(later Ind) 		bgcolor="Template:Welsh Labour/meta/color" rowspan="7"| Ron Davies
(Lab) 		bgcolor="Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color"| Brian Hancock
(PC) 		bgcolor="Template:Welsh Labour/meta/color" rowspan="7"| Huw Lewis
(Lab) 		bgcolor="Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/color" rowspan="7"| David T C Davies
(Con) 		bgcolor="Template:Welsh Labour/meta/color" rowspan="7"| John Griffiths
(Lab) 		bgcolor="Template:Welsh Labour/meta/color" rowspan="7"| Rosemary Butler
(Lab) 		bgcolor="Template:Welsh Labour/meta/color" rowspan="7"| Lynne Neagle
(Lab)
2nd 2003 Jeffrey Cuthbert
(Lab) 		bgcolor="Template:Welsh Labour/meta/color" rowspan="6"| Irene James
(Lab)
2005[1] bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"|
2006 bgcolor="Template:Blaenau Gwent People's Voice Group/meta/color" rowspan="2"| Trish Law
(PV)
3rd 2007 Nick Ramsay
(Con)
4th 2011 bgcolor="Template:Welsh Labour/meta/color" rowspan="2"| Alun Davies
(Lab) 		Gwyn Price
(Lab)
5th 2016 Hefin David
(Lab) 		Rhianon Passmore
(Lab) 		Dawn Bowden
(Lab) 		Jayne Bryant
(Lab)

Regional list AMs and MSs

N.B. This table is for presentation purposes only

Term Election AM / MS AM / MS AM / MS AM /MS
1st 1999 bgcolor="Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color"| Phil Williams
(PC) 		bgcolor="Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color" rowspan="6"| Jocelyn Davies
(PC) 		bgcolor="Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/color" rowspan="6"| William Graham
(Con) 		bgcolor="Template:Welsh Liberal Democrats/meta/color" rowspan="5"| Mike German
(LD)
2nd 2003 bgcolor="Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/color"| Laura Anne Jones
(Con)
3rd 2007 bgcolor="Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color"| Mohammad Asghar
(PC)
(later Con)
2009 bgcolor="Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/color" rowspan="6"|
2010 Veronica German
(LD)
4th 2011 bgcolor="Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color" rowspan="5"| Lindsay Whittle
(PC)
5th 2016 bgcolor="Template:UK Independence Party/meta/color"| Mark Reckless
(UKIP)
(later Con, Ind, currently BREX) 		bgcolor="Template:UK Independence Party/meta/color" rowspan="2"| David Rowlands
UKIP
(later BREX) 		Steffan Lewis
(PC)
2017[2] bgcolor="Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/color" |
2019[3][4] rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Brexit Party/meta/color"| rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Brexit Party/meta/color"| Delyth Jewell[5]
(PC)
2020[6] Template:Vacant/meta/color| Vacant

2016 Welsh Assembly election additional members

Party Constituency seats List votes (vote %) D'Hondt entitlement Additional members elected Total members elected Deviation from D'Hondt entitlement
style="width: 4px" bgcolor="Template:Welsh Labour/meta/color" | [[Welsh Labour|Template:Welsh Labour/meta/shortname]] 7 74,424 (38.3%) 6 0 7 +1
style="width: 4px" bgcolor="Template:UK Independence Party/meta/color" | [[United Kingdom Independence Party|Template:United Kingdom Independence Party/meta/shortname]] 0 34,524 (17.8%) 2 2 2 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor="Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/color" | [[Welsh Conservative Party|Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/shortname]] 1 33,318 (17.2%) 2 1 2 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor="Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color" | [[Plaid Cymru|Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/shortname]] 0 29,626 (15.3%) 2 1 1 -1
style="width: 4px" bgcolor="Template:Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party/meta/color" | [[Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party|Template:Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party/meta/shortname]] 0 7,870 (4.1%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor="Template:Welsh Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | [[Welsh Liberal Democrats|Template:Welsh Liberal Democrats/meta/shortname]] 0 6,784 (3.5%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor="Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color" | [[Wales Green Party|Template:Wales Green Party/meta/shortname]] 0 4,831 (2.5%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor="Template:Official Monster Raving Loony Party/meta/color" | [[Official Monster Raving Loony Party|Template:Official Monster Raving Loony Party/meta/shortname]] 0 1,115 (0.6%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor="Template:Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition/meta/color" | [[Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition|Template:Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition/meta/shortname]] 0 618 (0.3%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor="Template:Communist Party of Britain/meta/color" | [[Communist Party of Britain|Template:Communist Party of Britain/meta/shortname]] 0 492 (0.2%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor="Template:National Front (UK)/meta/color" | [[National Front (UK)|Template:National Front (UK)/meta/shortname]] 0 429 (0.2%) 0 0 0 0

Regional AMs elected 2016

Party Name
style="width: 4px" bgcolor="Template:UK Independence Party/meta/color" | UKIP Mark Reckless
style="width: 4px" bgcolor="Template:UK Independence Party/meta/color" | UKIP David Rowlands
style="width: 4px" bgcolor="Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/color" | Conservative Mohammad Asghar
style="width: 4px" bgcolor="Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color" | [[Plaid Cymru|Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/shortname]] Steffan Lewis

2011 Welsh Assembly election additional members

Party Constituency Seats List Votes (vote %) D'Hondt Entitlement Additional Members Elected Total Members Elected Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Labour/meta/color| [[Welsh Labour|Template:Welsh Labour/meta/shortname]] 7 82,699 (45.7%) 7 0 7 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/color| [[Welsh Conservative Party|Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/shortname]] 1 35,459 (19.6%) 3 2 3 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color| [[Plaid Cymru|Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/shortname]] 0 21,851 (12.1%) 2 2 2 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Liberal Democrats/meta/color| [[Welsh Liberal Democrats|Template:Welsh Liberal Democrats/meta/shortname]] 0 10,798 (6.0%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:UK Independence Party/meta/color| [[United Kingdom Independence Party|Template:United Kingdom Independence Party/meta/shortname]] 0 9,526 (5.3%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:British National Party/meta/color| [[British National Party|Template:British National Party/meta/shortname]] 0 6,485 (3.6%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color| [[Wales Green Party|Template:Wales Green Party/meta/shortname]] 0 4,857 (2.7%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Socialist Labour Party (UK)/meta/color| [[Socialist Labour Party (UK)|Template:Socialist Labour Party (UK)/meta/shortname]] 0 4,427 (2.4%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Christian Party/meta/color| [[Welsh Christian Party|Template:Welsh Christian Party/meta/shortname]] 0 2,441 (1.3%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:English Democrats Party/meta/color| [[English Democrats Party|Template:English Democrats Party/meta/shortname]] 0 1,904 (1.1%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Communist Party of Britain/meta/color| [[Communist Party of Britain|Template:Communist Party of Britain/meta/shortname]] 0 578 (0.3%) 0 0 0 0

Regional AMs elected 2011

Party Name
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/color| [[Welsh Conservative Party|Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/shortname]] Mohammad Asghar
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/color| [[Welsh Conservative Party|Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/shortname]] William Graham
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color| [[Plaid Cymru|Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/shortname]] Jocelyn Davies
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color| [[Plaid Cymru|Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/shortname]] Lindsay Whittle

2007 Welsh Assembly election additional members [7]

Party Constituency Seats List Votes (vote %) D'Hondt Entitlement Additional Members Elected Total Members Elected Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Labour/meta/color| [[Welsh Labour|Template:Welsh Labour/meta/shortname]] 6 67,998 (35.8%) 6 0 6 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/color| [[Welsh Conservative Party|Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/shortname]] 1 37,935 (20.0%) 3 1 2 −1
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color| [[Plaid Cymru|Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/shortname]] 0 25,915 (13.6%) 2 2 2 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Liberal Democrats/meta/color| [[Welsh Liberal Democrats|Template:Welsh Liberal Democrats/meta/shortname]] 0 20,947 (11.0%) 1 1 1 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:British National Party/meta/color| [[British National Party|Template:British National Party/meta/shortname]] 0 8,940 (4.7%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color| [[Green Party of England and Wales|Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/shortname]] 0 5,414 (2.8%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:United Kingdom Independence Party/meta/color| [[UK Independence Party|Template:United Kingdom Independence Party/meta/shortname]] 0 8,725 (4.6%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color| [[Independent (politician)|Template:Independent (politician)/meta/shortname]] 1 4,876 (2.6%) 0 0 1 +1
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Socialist Labour Party (UK)/meta/color| [[Socialist Labour Party (UK)|Template:Socialist Labour Party (UK)/meta/shortname]] 0 3,694 (1.9%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Christian Party/meta/color| [[Welsh Christian Party|Template:Welsh Christian Party/meta/shortname]] 0 2,498 (1.3%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:English Democrats Party/meta/color| [[English Democrats Party|Template:English Democrats Party/meta/shortname]] 0 1,655 (0.9%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Communist Party of Britain/meta/color| [[Communist Party of Britain|Template:Communist Party of Britain/meta/shortname]] 0 979 (0.5%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Christian Peoples Alliance/meta/color| [[Christian Peoples Alliance|Template:Christian Peoples Alliance/meta/shortname]] 0 489 (0.3%) 0 0 0 0

On 8 December 2009, Plaid Cymru list member for South Wales East defected to the Conservative Party, giving Plaid one AM, and the Conservatives two.[8]

2003 Welsh Assembly additional members [9]

Party Constituency Seats List Votes (vote %) D'Hondt Entitlement Additional Members Elected Total Members Elected Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Labour/meta/color| [[Welsh Labour|Template:Welsh Labour/meta/shortname]] 7 76,522 (45.08%) 7 0 7 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/color| [[Welsh Conservative Party|Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/shortname]] 1 34,231 (20.17%) 3 2 3 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color| [[Plaid Cymru|Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/shortname]] 0 21,384 (12.60%) 1 1 1 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Liberal Democrats/meta/color| [[Welsh Liberal Democrats|Template:Welsh Liberal Democrats/meta/shortname]] 0 17,661 (10.41%) 1 1 1 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:UK Independence Party/meta/color| [[UK Independence Party|Template:United Kingdom Independence Party/meta/shortname]] 0 5,949 (3.50%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color| [[Green Party of England and Wales|Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/shortname]] 0 5,291 (3.12%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Socialist Labour Party (UK)/meta/color| [[Socialist Labour Party (UK)|Template:Socialist Labour Party (UK)/meta/shortname]] 0 3,695 (2.18%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:British National Party/meta/color| [[British National Party|Template:British National Party/meta/shortname]] 0 3,210 (1.89%) 0 0 0 0
Cymru Annibynnol 0 1,226 (0.72%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:ProLife Alliance/meta/color| [[ProLife Alliance|Template:ProLife Alliance/meta/shortname]] 0 562 (0.33%) 0 0 0 0

1999 Welsh Assembly additional members [10]

Party Constituency Seats List Votes (vote %) D'Hondt Entitlement Additional Members Elected Total Members Elected Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Labour/meta/color| [[Welsh Labour|Template:Welsh Labour/meta/shortname]] 6 83,953 (41.45%) 6 0 6 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color| [[Plaid Cymru|Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/shortname]] 1 49,139 (24.26%) 3 2 3 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/color| [[Welsh Conservative Party|Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/shortname]] 1 33,947 (16.76%) 2 1 2 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Liberal Democrats/meta/color| [[Welsh Liberal Democrats|Template:Welsh Liberal Democrats/meta/shortname]] 0 24,757 (12.22%) 1 1 1 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Socialist Labour Party (UK)/meta/color| [[Socialist Labour Party (UK)|Template:Socialist Labour Party (UK)/meta/shortname]] 0 4,879 (2.41%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color| [[Green Party of England and Wales|Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/shortname]] 0 4,055 (2.00%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Socialist Alliance/meta/color| [[Welsh Socialist Alliance|Template:Welsh Socialist Alliance/meta/shortname]] 0 903 (0.45%) 0 0 0 0
style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Natural Law Party/meta/color| [[Natural Law Party|Template:Natural Law Party/meta/shortname]] 0 898 (0.44%) 0 0 0 0

Notes

  1. ^ In 2005 Peter Law left the Labour Party in a row over candidate selection in Blaenau Gwent for that year's UK general election.
  2. ^ In 2017 Mark Reckless left UKIP and was admitted to the Conservative group in the Welsh Assembly, though not to the Conservative Party itself. For purposes of Assembly business, he was treated as a Conservative AM.
  3. ^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-46810071
  4. ^ In 2019 Mark Reckless left the Conservative Group to become Independent.
  5. ^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-46898151
  6. ^ "Welsh Conservative MS Mohammad Asghar has died aged 74". Western Mail. 16 June 2020.
  7. ^ BBC Election results
  8. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/wales_politics/8401427.stm
  9. ^ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ass/constit/wr4.htm
  10. ^ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ass/constit/wr4.htm
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