Caerphilly (Senedd Cymru constituency)
Caerphilly (Welsh: Caerffili) 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 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.
Caerphilly | |
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Senedd county constituency | |
Caerphilly shown as one of the 40 Senedd constituencies | |
Current Senedd county constituency | |
Created | 1999 |
Party | Labour |
MS | Hefin David |
Electoral region | South Wales East |
Boundaries
The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Caerphilly Westminster constituency.
The other seven constituencies of the South Wales East electoral region are Blaenau Gwent, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Monmouth, Newport East, Newport West and Torfaen.
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 | |
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1999 | Ron Davies | Labour | ||
2003 | Jeffrey Cuthbert | Labour | ||
2016 | Hefin David | Labour |
Results
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Hefin David | 9,584 | 35.3 | −13.6 | |
Plaid Cymru | Lindsay Whittle | 8,009 | 29.5 | −0.2 | |
UKIP | Sam Gould | 5,954 | 22.0 | +22.0 | |
Conservative | Jane Pratt | 2,412 | 8.9 | −4.3 | |
Green | Andrew Creak | 770 | 2.8 | +2.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Aladdin Ayesh | 386 | 1.4 | -2.7 | |
Majority | 1,575 | 5.8 | -13.5 | ||
Turnout | 43.3 | +1.8 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jeffrey Cuthbert | 12,521 | 49.0 | +14.4 | |
Plaid Cymru | Ronald Davies | 7,597 | 29.7 | +3.9 | |
Conservative | Owen Meredith | 3,368 | 13.2 | +1.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Kay David | 1,062 | 4.2 | −2.0 | |
BNP | Anthony King | 1,022 | 4.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,924 | 19.3 | +10.5 | ||
Turnout | 25,570 | 41.5 | −0.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +5.2 |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jeffrey Cuthbert | 9,026 | 34.6 | −10.8 | |
Plaid Cymru | Lindsay Whittle | 6,739 | 25.8 | −2.2 | |
Independent | Ronald Davies | 5,806 | 22.2 | +22.2 | |
Conservative | Richard Foley | 2,954 | 11.3 | +1.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Huw Price | 1,596 | 6.1 | +1.1 | |
Majority | 2,287 | 8.8 | −10.8 | ||
Turnout | 26,120 | 42.1 | +5.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −4.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jeffrey Cuthbert | 11,893 | 47.1 | +2.9 | |
Plaid Cymru | Lindsay Whittle | 6,919 | 27.4 | −6.8 | |
Conservative | Laura Anne Jones | 2,570 | 10.2 | +2.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Rob W. Roffe | 1,281 | 5.1 | −7.3 | |
Independent | Anne Blackman | 1,204 | 4.8 | N/A | |
Independent | Avril A. Dafydd-Lewis | 930 | 3.7 | N/A | |
UKIP | Brenda M. Vipass | 590 | 2.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,974 | 19.6 | +9.6 | ||
Turnout | 25,387 | 36.8 | −6.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +4.9 |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ronald Davies | 12,602 | 44.2 | N/A | |
Plaid Cymru | Robert W. Gough | 9,741 | 34.2 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Mike German | 3,543 | 12.4 | N/A | |
Conservative | Mary Taylor | 2,213 | 7.8 | N/A | |
Socialist Alliance | Timothy Richards | 412 | 1.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,861 | 10.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 28,511 | 43.2 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) |
Notes
- http://www.caerphilly.gov.uk/CaerphillyDocs/Elections/NAW-Notice-of-poll-and-situation-of-polling-st-(1).aspx. Missing or empty
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(help) - @CaerphillyObsvr (6 May 2016). "Caerphilly Lab Hold with 9,584; Plaid 8,009; UKIP 5,954; Cons 2412; Green 770; Lib Dem 386" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- "Wales elections > Caerphilly". BBC News. 6 May 2011. Retrieved 8 March 2011.