South Wales West (National Assembly for Wales electoral region)

**South Wales West**
Welsh Assembly electoral region

Created 1999
Current representation
Labour	7 AMs
Conservative	2 AMs
Plaid Cymru	1 AM
Liberal Democrats	1 AM
Constituencies 1. Aberavon 2. Bridgend 3. Gower 4. Neath 5. Ogmore 6. Swansea East 7. Swansea West
Preserved counties Mid Glamorgan (part) South Glamorgan (part) West Glamorgan

South Wales West is an electoral region of the National Assembly for Wales, consisting of seven constituencies. The region elects 11 members, seven 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 being taken into account in the allocation.

County boundaries

The region covers the whole of the preserved county of West Glamorgan, part of the preserved county of Mid Glamorgan and part of the preserved county of South Glamorgan. The rest of Mid Glamorgan is divided between the South Wales Central and South Wales East electoral regions. The rest of South Glamorgan is within the South Wales Central region.

Electoral region profile

The region is predominantly urban, taking in Wales' second largest city, Swansea, as well as working-class towns such as Neath and Port Talbot. However there are also rural regions, such as on the Gower peninsula. A higher proportion of the local populace are Welsh speakers than in the neighbouring region, South Wales Central.

Constituencies

The seven constituencies have the names and boundaries of constituencies of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster):

Constituency^{[nb 1]}	Electorate	Majority^{[nb 2]}			Preserved counties
Aberavon	49,891	6,402 (30.7%)	David Rees	Bethan Jenkins	Entirely within West Glamorgan
Bridgend	62,185	5,623 (20.9%)	Carwyn Jones	George Jabbour	Partly Mid Glamorgan, partly South Glamorgan
Gower	62,163	1,829 (6.1%)	Rebecca Evans	Lyndon Jones	Entirely within West Glamorgan
Neath	55,859	2,923 (11.5%)	Jeremy Miles	Alun Lluwellyn	Entirely within West Glamorgan
Ogmore	56,661	9,468 (40.5%)	Huw Irranca-Davies	Tim Thomas	Partly Mid Glamorgan, partly South Glamorgan
Swansea East	58,521	7,452 (36.2%)	Mike Hedges	Clifford Johnson	Entirely within West Glamorgan
Swansea West	56,892	5,080 (22.9%)	Julie James	Craig Lawton	Entirely within West Glamorgan

Assembly members

Constituency AMs

Term	Election
1st	1999	Brian Gibbons (Lab)	Carwyn Jones (Lab)	Edwina Hart (Lab)	Gwenda Thomas (Lab)	Janice Gregory (Lab)	Val Feld (Lab)	Andrew Davies (Lab)
1st	2001						Val Lloyd (Lab)
2nd	2003
3rd	2007
4th	2011	David Rees (Lab)					Mike Hedges (Lab)	Julie James (Lab)
5th	2016	David Rees (Lab)		Rebecca Evans (Lab)	Jeremy Miles (Lab)	Huw Irranca-Davies (Lab)	Mike Hedges (Lab)	Julie James (Lab)

Regional list AMs

N.B. This table is for presentation purposes only

Term	Election
1st	1999	Alun Cairns (Con)	Dai Lloyd (PC)	Janet Davies (PC)	Peter Black (LD)
2nd	2003			Janet Davies (PC)
3rd	2007			Bethan Jenkins (PC)
4th	2011	Suzy Davies (Con)	Byron Davies (Con)
4th	2015^[1]		Altaf Hussain (Con)
5th	2016		Dai Lloyd (PC)		Caroline Jones (UKIP)

2016 Welsh Assembly election additional members

	Constituency Seats	List Votes (vote %)	D'Hondt Entitlement	Additional Members Elected	Total Members Elected	Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement
Labour	7	66,903 (39.5%)	5	0	7	+2
Plaid Cymru	0	29,050 (17.2%)	2	2	2	0
Conservative	0	25,414 (15.0%)	2	1	1	-1
UKIP	0	23.096 (13.7%)	2	1	1	-1
Liberal Democrats	0	10,946 (6.5%)	0	0	0	0

Regional AMs elected 2016

Party		Name
	Plaid Cymru	Bethan Jenkins
	Plaid Cymru	David Lloyd
	Conservative	Suzy Davies
	UKIP	Caroline Jones

2011 Welsh Assembly election additional members

	Constituency Seats	List Votes (vote %)	D'Hondt Entitlement	Additional Members Elected	Total Members Elected	Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement
Labour	7	71,766 (46.5%)	6	0	7	+1
Conservative	0	27,457 (17.8%)	2	2	2	0
Plaid Cymru	0	21,258 (13.8%)	2	1	1	−1
Liberal Democrats	0	10,683 (6.9%)	1	1	1	0
UKIP	0	6,619 (4.3%)	0	0	0	0
Socialist Labour	0	5,057 (3.3%)	0	0	0	0
BNP	0	4,714 (3.1%)	0	0	0	0
Green	0	3,952 (2.6%)	0	0	0	0
Welsh Christian	0	1,602 (1.0%)	0	0	0	0
TUSC	0	809 (0.5%)	0	0	0	0
Communist	0	464 (0.3%)	0	0	0	0

Regional AMs elected 2011

Party		Name
	Conservative	Byron Davies †
	Conservative	Suzy Davies
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Black
	Plaid Cymru	Bethan Jenkins

† Resigned as AM following his election to the UK House of Commons on 7 May 2015; replaced by Altaf Hussain from 19 May 2015.

2007 Welsh Assembly election additional members^[2]

	Constituency Seats	List Votes (vote %)	D'Hondt Entitlement	Additional Members Elected	Total Members Elected	Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement
Labour	7	58,374 (35.8%)	6	0	7	+1
Plaid Cymru	0	28,819 (17.7%)	2	2	2	0
Conservative	0	26,119 (16.1%)	2	1	1	−1
Liberal Democrats	0	20,226 (12.4%)	1	1	1	0
BNP	0	8,993 (5.5%)	0	0	0	0
Green	0	6,130 (3.8%)	0	0	0	0
UKIP	0	5,914 (3.6%)	0	0	0	0
Socialist Labour	0	2,367 (1.5%)	0	0	0	0
Welsh Christian	0	1,685 (1.0%)	0	0	0	0
Independent	0	1,186 (0.7%)	0	0	0	0
Socialist Alternative	0	1,027 (0.6%)	0	0	0	0
Respect	0	713 (0.4%)	0	0	0	0
Ind. Conservative	0	582 (0.4%)	0	0	0	0
Communist	0	546 (0.3%)	0	0	0	0
Christian Peoples	0	393 (0.2%)	0	0	0	0

2003 Welsh Assembly election additional members ^[3]

	Constituency Seats	List Votes (vote %)	D'Hondt Entitlement	Additional Members Elected	Total Members Elected
Labour	7	58,066 (41.61%)	7	0	7
Plaid Cymru	0	24,799 (17.77%)	2	2	2
Conservative	0	20,981 (15.03%)	1	1	1
Liberal Democrats	0	17,746 (12.72%)	1	1	1
Green	0	6,696 (4.80%)	0	0	0
UKIP	0	6,113 (4.38%)	0	0	0
Socialist Labour	0	3,446 (2.47%)	0	0	0
Cymru Annibynnol	0	1,346 (0.96%)	0	0	0
ProLife Alliance	0	355 (0.25%)	0	0	0

1999 Welsh Assembly election additional members ^[3]

	Constituency Seats	List Votes (vote %)	D'Hondt Entitlement	Additional Members Elected	Total Members Elected	Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement
Labour	7	70,625 (41.79%)	5	0	7	+2
Plaid Cymru	0	50,757 (30.04%)	4	2	2	−2
Conservative	0	20,993 (12.42%)	1	1	1	0
Liberal Democrats	0	18,527 (10.96%)	1	1	1	0
Green	0	4,082 (2.42%)	0	0	0	0
People's Representative	0	2,074 (1.23%)	0	0	0	0
Socialist Alliance	0	1,257 (0.74%)	0	0	0	0
Natural Law	0	676 (0.40%)	0	0	0	0

Notes

↑ BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
↑ The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

↑ Following his election to the House of Commons, Byron Davies resigned as an AM in May 2015 and was replaced by Altaf Hussain.
↑ BBC Election results
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[1] BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.

[2] The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

[3] Following his election to the House of Commons, Byron Davies resigned as an AM in May 2015 and was replaced by Altaf Hussain.

[4] BBC Election results

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Electoral regions and Constituencies of the National Assembly for Wales
Mid and West Wales	Brecon and Radnorshire Carmarthen East and Dinefwr Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire Ceredigion Dwyfor Meirionnydd Llanelli Montgomeryshire Preseli Pembrokeshire
North Wales	Aberconwy Alyn and Deeside Arfon Clwyd South Clwyd West Delyn Vale of Clwyd Wrexham Ynys Môn
South Wales Central	Cardiff Central Cardiff North Cardiff South and Penarth Cardiff West Cynon Valley Pontypridd Rhondda Vale of Glamorgan
South Wales East	Blaenau Gwent Caerphilly Islwyn Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney Monmouth Newport East Newport West Torfaen
South Wales West	Aberavon Bridgend Gower Neath Ogmore Swansea East Swansea West