Cardiff West (Senedd constituency)
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Cardiff West (Welsh: Gorllewin Caerdydd) 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 Central 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 Cardiff West Westminster constituency. It is entirely within the preserved county of South Glamorgan.
The other seven constituencies of the region are Cardiff Central, Cardiff North, Cardiff South and Penarth, Cynon Valley, Pontypridd, Rhondda and Vale of Glamorgan.
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
The current AM is Rhodri Morgan, the former First Minister.
Period | Member | Party | |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1999 - present | Rhodri Morgan | Labour Party |
Elections
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rhodri Morgan | 10,390 | 38.6 | −10.4 | |
Conservative | Craig Williams | 6,692 | 24.9 | +7.1 | |
Plaid Cymru | Neil McEvoy | 5,719 | 21.3 | +5.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alison Goldsworthy | 4,088 | 15.2 | +1.6 | |
Majority | 3,698 | 13.8 | −17.5 | ||
Turnout | 26,889 | 41.6 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rhodri Morgan | 10,420 | 50.3 | −11.3 | |
Conservative | Heather Douglas | 3,583 | 17.3 | +2.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jaqueline-Anne Gasson | 2,914 | 14.1 | +5.2 | |
Plaid Cymru | Eluned Bush | 2,859 | 13.8 | −0.8 | |
UKIP | Frank Hughes | 929 | 4.5 | +4.5 | |
Majority | 6,837 | 33.0 | −13.8 | ||
Turnout | 21,413 | 35.4 | −5.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rhodri Morgan | 14,305 | 61.6 | ||
Conservative | Myr Boult | 3,446 | 14.8 | ||
Plaid Cymru | Eluned Bush | 3,402 | 14.7 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Dewi Garrow-Smith | 2,063 | 8.9 | ||
Majority | 10,859 | 46.8 | |||
Turnout | 23,216 | 40.3 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |