Newport East (Assembly constituency)

Coordinates: 51°35′35″N 2°55′12″W / 51.593°N 2.920°W / 51.593; -2.920

Newport East

Welsh Assembly county constituency
Newport East shown as one of the 40 Welsh Assembly constituencies
Created:	1999
Electoral region:	South Wales East
AM:	John Griffiths
Party:	Welsh Labour

Newport East 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 same name and boundaries of the Newport East Westminster constituency.

The other seven constituencies of the South Wales East electoral region are Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Islwyn, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Monmouth, 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

Election		Member	Party	Portrait
	1999	John Griffiths	Labour

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Welsh Assembly Election 2016: Newport East^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	John Griffiths	9,229	44.6	−6.2
	UKIP	James Peterson	4,333	20.9	+20.9
	Conservative	Munawar Mughal	3,768	18.2	−4.9
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Halliday	1,481	7.2	−11.9
	Plaid Cymru	Anthony Salkeld	1,386	6.7	-0.3
	Green	Peter Varley	491	2.4	+2.4
Majority			4,896	23.7	-4.0
Turnout			20,688	37.2	+1.7
	Labour hold		Swing	-13.6

Welsh Assembly Election 2011: Newport East^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour Co-op	John Griffiths	9,888	50.8	+18.7
	Conservative	Nick Webb	4,500	23.1	+0.5
	Liberal Democrats	Ed Townsend	3,703	19.0	−8.7
	Plaid Cymru	Chris Paul	1,369	7.0	−1.5
Majority			5,388	27.7	+23.3
Turnout			19,460	35.5	−2.0
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

Elections in the 2000s

Welsh Assembly election 2007: Newport East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour Co-op	John Griffiths	6,395	32.1	−12.5
	Liberal Democrats	Ed Townsend	5,520	27.7	+11.5
	Conservative	Peter Fox	4,512	22.7	−1.7
	Plaid Cymru	Trefor Puw	1,696	8.5	−0.6
	Independent	James Harris	1,354	6.8	N/A
	English Democrat	Michael Blundell	429	2.2	N/A
Majority			875	4.4	−16.0
Turnout			19,906	37.5	+7.1
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

Welsh Assembly election 2003: Newport East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour Co-op	John Griffiths	7,621	44.7	−4.8
	Conservative	Matthew Evans	4,157	24.3	+1.5
	Liberal Democrats	Ed Townsend	2,768	16.2	+2.2
	Plaid Cymru	Mohammad Asghar	1,555	9.1	−4.7
	UKIP	Neal J. Reynolds	987	5.8	N/A
Majority			3,484	20.4	−6.2
Turnout			17,212	30.4	−5.4
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing	−3.2

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