South Wales Central (Senedd Cymru electoral region)

South Wales Central is an electoral region of the Senedd, 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.

**South Wales Central**
Senedd electoral region

South Wales Central shown within Wales
Created 1999
Current representation
Labour	7 MSs
Conservative	2 MSs
Plaid Cymru	1 MS
Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party	1 MS
Welsh National Party	1 MS
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
Preserved counties Mid Glamorgan (part) South Glamorgan (part)

Each constituency elects one Member of the Senedd 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):

Constituency		Preserved counties
Cardiff Central	Jenny Rathbone Labour	Entirely within South Glamorgan
Cardiff North	Julie Morgan Labour	Entirely within South Glamorgan
Cardiff South and Penarth	Vaughan Gething Labour	Entirely within South Glamorgan
Cardiff West	Mark Drakeford Labour	Entirely within South Glamorgan
Cynon Valley	Vikki Howells Labour & Co-operative	Entirely within Mid Glamorgan
Pontypridd	Mick Antoniw Labour	Partly Mid Glamorgan, partly South Glamorgan
Rhondda	Leanne Wood Plaid Cymru	Entirely within Mid Glamorgan
Vale of Glamorgan	Jane Hutt Labour	Partly Mid Glamorgan, partly South Glamorgan

Assembly members and Members of the Senedd

Constituency AMs

Term	Election
1st	1999	Jenny Randerson (LD)	Sue Essex (Lab)	Lorraine Barrett (Lab)	Rhodri Morgan (Lab)	Christine Chapman (Lab)	Jane Davidson (Lab)	Geraint Davies (PC)	Jane Hutt (Lab)
2nd	2003		Sue Essex (Lab)					Leighton Andrews (Lab)
3rd	2007		Jonathan Morgan (Con)
4th	2011	Jenny Rathbone (Lab)	Julie Morgan (Lab)	Vaughan Gething (Lab)	Mark Drakeford (Lab)		Mick Antoniw (Lab)
5th	2016	Jenny Rathbone (Lab)	Julie Morgan (Lab)	Vaughan Gething (Lab)	Mark Drakeford (Lab)	Vikki Howells (Lab)	Mick Antoniw (Lab)	Leanne Wood (PC)

Regional list AMs and MSs

N.B. This table is for presentation purposes only

Term	Election
1st	1999	Jonathan Morgan (Con)	David Melding (Con)	Owen John Thomas (PC)	Pauline Jarman (PC)
2nd	2003	Jonathan Morgan (Con)		Owen John Thomas (PC)	Leanne Wood (PC)
3rd	2007	Andrew R. T. Davies (Con)		Chris Franks (PC)
4th	2011			Eluned Parrott (LD)
5th	2016			Gareth Bennett (UKIP) later Independent then AWAP	Neil McEvoy (PC) later Independent then WNP
	2018
	2018
	2020

2016 Welsh Assembly election additional members

	Constituency Seats	List Votes (vote %) [1]	D'Hondt Entitlement	Additional Members Elected	Total Members Elected	Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement
Labour	7	78,366 (34%)	5	0	7	+2
Plaid Cymru	1	48,357 (21%)	3	1	2	-1
Conservative	0	42,185 (18%)	3	2	2	-1
UKIP	0	23,958 (10%)	1	1	1	0
Liberal Democrats	0	14,875 (6%)	0	0	0	0
Abolish the Welsh Assembly	0	9,163 (4%)	0	0	0	0
Green	0	7,949 (3%)	0	0	0	0
Women's Equality	0	2,807 (1%)	0	0	0	0
Monster Raving Loony	0	1,096 (0%)	0	0	0	0
TUSC	0	736 (0%)	0	0	0	0
Communist	0	520 (0%)	0	0	0	0
Freedom to Choose	0	470 (0.2%)	0	0	0	0

Regional AMs Elected 2016

Party		Name
	Conservative	Andrew R. T. Davies
	Conservative	David Melding
	Plaid Cymru	Neil McEvoy
	UKIP	Gareth Bennett

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	8	85,445 (41.0%)	6	0	8	+2
Conservative	0	45,751 (22.0%)	3	2	2	−1
Plaid Cymru	0	28,606 (13.7%)	2	1	1	−1
Liberal Democrats	0	16,514 (7.9%)	1	1	1	0
Green	0	10,774 (5.2%)	0	0	0	0
UKIP	0	8,292 (4.0%)	0	0	0	0
Socialist Labour	0	4,690 (2.3%)	0	0	0	0
BNP	0	3,805 (1.8%)	0	0	0	0
Welsh Christian	0	1,873 (0.9%)	0	0	0	0
Monster Raving Loony	0	1,237 (0.6%)	0	0	0	0
TUSC	0	830 (0.4%)	0	0	0	0
Communist	0	516 (0.2%)	0	0	0	0

Regional AMs elected 2011

Party		Name
	Conservative	Andrew R. T. Davies
	Conservative	David Melding
	Liberal Democrats	Eluned Parrott †
	Plaid Cymru	Leanne Wood

† Replaced John Dixon, who was disqualified for being a member of a public body to which AMs cannot belong.[2]

2007 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	6	70,799 (34.0%)	5	0	6	+1
Conservative	1	45,127 (21.7%)	3	2	3	0
Plaid Cymru	0	32,207 (15.5%)	2	2	2	0
Liberal Democrats	1	29,626 (14.0%)	2	0	1	−1
BNP	0	7,889 (3.8%)	0	0	0	0
Green	0	7,831 (3.8%)	0	0	0	0
UKIP	0	7,645 (3.7%)	0	0	0	0
Welsh Christian	0	1,987 (1.0%)	0	0	0	0
Socialist Labour	0	1,744 (0.8%)	0	0	0	0
Respect	0	1,079 (0.5%)	0	0	0	0
Socialist Alternative	0	838 (0.4%)	0	0	0	0
Communist	0	817 (0.4%)	0	0	0	0
Christian Peoples Alliance	0	757 (0.4%)	0	0	0	0
Socialist Equality	0	292 (0.1%)	0	0	0	0

2003 Welsh Assembly election additional members[4]

	Constituency Seats	List Votes (vote %)	D'Hondt Entitlement	Additional Members Elected	Total Members Elected
Labour	7	74,369 (41.08%)	7	0	7
Conservative	0	33,404 (18.45%)	2	2	2
Plaid Cymru	0	27,956 (15.44%)	2	2	2
Liberal Democrats	1	24,926 (13.77%)	1	0	1
UKIP	0	6,920 (3.82.%)	0	0	0
Green	0	6,047 (3.34%)	0	0	0
Socialist Labour	0	3,217 (1.78%)	0	0	0
New Millennium Bean Party	0	1,027 (0.57%)	0	0	0
Cymru Annibynnol	0	1,018 (0.56%)	0	0	0
Vote 2 Stop the War	0	1,013 (0.56%)	0	0	0
Communist	0	577 (0.32%)	0	0	0
ProLife Alliance	0	573 (0.32%)	0	0	0

1999 Welsh Assembly election additional members[5]

	Constituency Seats	List Votes (vote %)	D'Hondt Entitlement	Additional Members Elected	Total Members Elected	Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement
Labour	6	79,564 (36.92%)	5	0	6	+1
Plaid Cymru	1	58,080 (26.95%)	3	2	3	0
Conservative	0	34,944 (16.22%)	2	2	2	0
Liberal Democrats	1	30,911 (14.35%)	2	0	1	−1
Green	0	5,336 (2.48%)	0	0	0	0
Socialist Labour	0	2,822 (1.31%)	0	0	0	0
Independent- Matt	0	1,524 (0.71%)	0	0	0	0
Natural Law	0	665 (0.31%)	0	0	0	0
Communist	0	652 (0.30%)	0	0	0	0
Socialist Alliance	0	602 (0.28%)	0	0	0	0
Independent- Phillips	0	378 (0.18%)	0	0	0	0

Notes

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[1] ttps://cardiff.moderngov.co.uk/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?ID=64&RPID=0

[2] BBC News: No return to Welsh assembly for Lib Dems' John Dixon

[3] BBC Election results

[4] ttp://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ass/constit/wr3.htm

[5] ttp://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ass/constit/wr3.htm

Electoral regions and constituencies of Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament
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