South Wales Central (Senedd electoral region)
| Welsh Assembly electoral region | |
|---|---|
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| Created 1999 | |
| Constituencies 1. Cardiff Central 2. Cardiff North 3. Cardiff South and Penarth 4. Cardiff West 5. Cynon Valley 6. Pontypridd 7. Rhondda 8. Vale of Glamorgan | |
| Current representation | |
| Labour | 6 AMs |
| Conservative | 3 AMs |
| Plaid Cymru | 2 AMs |
| Welsh Liberal Democrats | 1 AM |
| Preserved counties Mid Glamorgan (part) South Glamorgan (part) | |
South Wales Central 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 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 reckoned as pre elected list members.
County boundaries
The region covers much of the preserved county of Mid Glamorgan and much of the preserved county of South Glamorgan. The rest of Mid Glamorgan is partly within the South Wales East electoral region and partly within the South Wales West. The rest of South Glamorgan is within the South Wales West electoral region.
Electoral region profile
The region is predominantly urban, taking in Wales' capital and largest city, Cardiff, as well as the working-class former mining town of Pontypridd, the seaside resort of Barry, and parts of the formerly industrial and still heavily populated South Wales Valleys. However, the region also includes rural areas in the western part of the Vale of Glamorgan.
Constituencies
The eight constituencies have the names and boundaries of constituencies of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster):
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]] | Andrew R. T. Davies |
| style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/color| | [[Welsh Conservative Party|Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/shortname]] | David Melding |
| style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Liberal Democrats/meta/color| | [[Welsh Liberal Democrats|Template:Welsh Liberal Democrats/meta/shortname]] | Eluned Parrott † |
| style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color| | [[Plaid Cymru|Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/shortname]] | Leanne Wood |
† Replaced John Dixon, who was disqualified for being a member of a public body to which AMs cannot belong.[1]
| 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 | 74,369 (41.08%) | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/color| | [[Welsh Conservative Party|Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/shortname]] | 0 | 33,404 (18.45%) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color| | [[Plaid Cymru|Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/shortname]] | 0 | 27,956 (15.44%) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Liberal Democrats/meta/color| | [[Welsh Liberal Democrats|Template:Welsh Liberal Democrats/meta/shortname]] | 1 | 24,926 (13.77%) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:United Kingdom Independence Party/meta/color| | [[United Kingdom Independence Party|Template:United Kingdom Independence Party/meta/shortname]] | 0 | 6,920 (3.82.%) | 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 | 6,047 (3.34%) | 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 | 3,217 (1.78%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| New Millennium Bean Party | 0 | 1,027 (0.57%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cymru Annibynnol | 0 | 1,018 (0.56%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Vote 2 Stop the War | 0 | 1,013 (0.56%) | 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 | 577 (0.32%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:ProLife Alliance/meta/color| | [[ProLife Alliance|Template:ProLife Alliance/meta/shortname]] | 0 | 573 (0.32%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 79,564 (36.92%) | 5 | 0 | 6 | +1 |
| style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color| | [[Plaid Cymru|Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/shortname]] | 1 | 58,080 (26.95%) | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/color| | [[Welsh Conservative Party|Template:Welsh Conservative Party/meta/shortname]] | 0 | 34,944 (16.22%) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Liberal Democrats/meta/color| | [[Welsh Liberal Democrats|Template:Welsh Liberal Democrats/meta/shortname]] | 1 | 30,911 (14.35%) | 2 | 0 | 1 | −1 |
| 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 | 5,336 (2.48%) | 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 | 2,822 (1.31%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color| | Independent- Matt | 0 | 1,524 (0.71%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Natural Law Party/meta/color| | [[Natural Law Party|Template:Natural Law Party/meta/shortname]] | 0 | 665 (0.31%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Communist Party of Great Britain/meta/color| | [[Communist Party of Britain|Template:Communist Party of Britain/meta/shortname]] | 0 | 652 (0.30%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Welsh Socialist Alliance/meta/color| | [[Welsh Socialist Alliance|Template:Welsh Socialist Alliance/meta/shortname]] | 0 | 602 (0.28%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| style="width: 4px" bgcolor=Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color| | Independent- Phillips | 0 | 378 (0.18%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |