Clwyd West (Senedd constituency)

Not to be confused with Clwyd West (UK Parliament constituency).

Clwyd West
National Assembly for Wales county constituency
Clwyd West shown within the North Wales electoral region and the region shown within Wales
Current National Assembly for Wales county constituency
Created	1999
Party	Conservative
AM	Darren Millar
Preserved county	Clwyd

Clwyd West (Welsh: Gorllewin Clwyd) is a constituency of the Senedd. It elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of nine constituencies in the North Wales electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to nine 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 Clwyd West Westminster constituency. It is entirely within the preserved county of Clwyd. For the 2007 Assembly election part of Clwyd West was transferred to the Vale of Clwyd constituency, and Clwyd West now includes an area currently within the Clwyd South constituency. For Westminster purposes, the same boundary changes became effective for the 2010 United Kingdom general election.

As created in 1999, the North Wales region included the constituencies of Alyn and Deeside, Caernarfon, Clwyd West, Clwyd South, Conwy, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn. After the 2007 Assembly election the region now includes Aberconwy, Alyn and Deeside, Arfon, Clwyd South, Clwyd West, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn.

Voting

In general elections for the Senedd, each voter has two votes. The first vote may be used to vote for a candidate to become the Member of the Senedd 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 and Members of the Senedd

Election		Member	Party	Portrait
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1999	Alun Pugh	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	2007	Darren Millar	Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Welsh Assembly Election 2016: Clwyd West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Darren Millar	10,831	41.3	−2.0
	Plaid Cymru	Llyr Gruffydd	5,768	22.0	−1.0
	Labour	Jo Thomas	5,246	20.0	−6.4
	UKIP	David Edwards	2,985	11.4	+11.4
	Liberal Democrats	Victor Babu	831	3.2	−4.2
	Green	Julian Mahy	565	2.2	+2.2
Majority			5,063	19.3	+2.4
Turnout				45.5	+2.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

Welsh Assembly Election 2011: Clwyd West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Darren Millar	10,890	43.3	+9.3
	Labour	Crispin Jones	6,642	26.4	−1.5
	Plaid Cymru	Eifion Lloyd Jones	5,775	23.0	−4.4
	Liberal Democrats	Brian Cossey	1,846	7.3	+0.8
Majority			4,248	16.9	+10.8
Turnout			25,153	43.2	−2.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	+3.9

Elections in the 2000s

Welsh Assembly Election 2007: Clwyd West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Darren Millar	8,905	34.0	+1.3
	Labour	Alun Pugh	7,309	27.9	−6.9
	Plaid Cymru	Philip Edwards	7,162	27.3	+5.9
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Croft	1,705	6.5	−1.4
	UKIP	Warwick Nicholson	1,124	4.3	+3.0
Majority			1,596	6.1
Turnout			26,205	45.7	+5.4
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+4.1

Welsh Assembly Election 2003: Clwyd West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alun Pugh	7,693	34.8	+3.8
	Conservative	Brynle Williams	7,257	32.8	+4.8
	Plaid Cymru	Janet Ryder	4,715	21.3	−6.0
	Liberal Democrats	Eleanor Burnham	1,743	7.9	−5.8
	UKIP	Peter Murray	715	3.2	N/A
Majority			436	2.0	−1.0
Turnout			22,123	40.6	−6.5
	Labour hold		Swing	−0.5

Elections in the 1990s

Welsh Assembly Election 1999: Clwyd West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alun Pugh	7,824	31.0	N/A
	Conservative	Rod Richards	7,064	28.0	N/A
	Plaid Cymru	Eilian S. Williams	6,886	27.3	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Robina L. Feeley	3,462	13.7	N/A
Majority			760	3.0	N/A
Turnout			25,236	46.9	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)