Blaenau Gwent (Senedd constituency)

Not to be confused with Blaenau Gwent (UK Parliament constituency).

Blaenau Gwent

Welsh Assembly county constituency
Blaenau Gwent shown as one of the 40 Welsh Assembly constituencies
Created:	1999
Electoral region:	South Wales East
AM:	Alun Davies
Party:	Welsh Labour Party

Blaenau Gwent 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.

Boundaries

The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Blaenau Gwent Westminster constituency.

The other seven constituencies of the South Wales East electoral region are Caerphilly, Islwyn, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Monmouth, Newport East, Newport West and Torfaen.

Voting

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.

Assembly Members

Period		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Labour Co-operative/meta/color" |	1999	Peter Law	Labour Co-operative
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" |	2005		Independent
style="background-color: Template:Blaenau Gwent People's Voice Group/meta/color" |	2006	Trish Law	Blaenau Gwent People's Voice
style="background-color: Template:Welsh Labour Party/meta/color" |	2011	Alun Davies	Welsh Labour Party

Elections

Assembly Election 2011: Blaenau Gwent

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alun Davies	12,926	64.0	+32.6
	Independent	Jayne Sullivan	3,806	18.8	N/A
	Plaid Cymru	Darren Jones	1,098	5.4	+0.6
	Conservative	Bob Hayward	1,066	5.3	+1.2
	BNP	Brian Urch	948	4.7	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Oliver Blakebrough	367	1.8	−3.9
Majority			9,120	45.1
Turnout			20,211	37.8	−3307
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing

Welsh Assembly election 2007: Blaenau Gwent

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Blaenau Gwent PV	Trish Law	12,722	54.1	N/A
	Labour	Keren Bender	7,365	31.3	−38.9
	Liberal Democrats	Gareth Lewis	1,351	5.7	−5.1
	Plaid Cymru	Natasha Asghar	1,129	4.8	−4.8
	Conservative	Bob Hayward	951	4.0	−1.7
Majority			5,357	22.8
Turnout			23,518	44.5	+7.1
	Independent hold		Swing

Blaenau Gwent by-election, 2006

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Trish Law	13,785	50.3	N/A
	Labour	John Hopkins	9,321	34.0	−36.2
	Liberal Democrats	Steve Bard	2,054	7.5	−3.4
	Plaid Cymru	John Price	1,109	4.0	−5.6
	Conservative	Jonathan Burns	816	3.0	−2.7
	Green	John Matthews	302	1.1	N/A
Majority			4,464	16.3	−43.1
Turnout			27,387	49.6%	+12.2
	Independent gain from Labour		Swing

Welsh Assembly election 2003: Blaenau Gwent

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Peter Law	13,884	70.2	+8.4
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Bard	2,184	10.9	−0.6
	Plaid Cymru	Rhys Ab Ellis	1,889	9.6	−11.6
	Conservative	Barrie O'Keefe	1,131	5.7	+0.2
	UKIP	Roger Thomas	719	3.6	N/A
Majority			11,736	59.4
Turnout			20,022	37.8	−10.7
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

Welsh Assembly election 1999: Blaenau Gwent

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Peter Law	16,069	61.8	N/A
	Plaid Cymru	Phil Williams	5,501	21.1	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Keith Rogers	2,980	11.4	N/A
	Conservative	David Thomas	1,444	5.6	N/A
Majority			10,568
Turnout				48.2
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing