North Wales (Senedd electoral region) explained

**North Wales**
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North Wales shown within Wales
Senedd electoral region

Created 1999
Current representation
	5 MSs
	5 MSs
	3 MSs
Constituencies 1. Aberconwy 2. Alyn and Deeside 3. Arfon 4. Clwyd South 5. Clwyd West 6. Delyn 7. Vale of Clwyd 8. Wrexham 9. Ynys Môn
Preserved counties Clwyd Gwynedd (part)

North Wales is an electoral region of the Senedd, consisting of nine constituencies. The region elects thirteen members, nine directly elected constituency members and four additional members. The electoral region was first used in the 1999 Welsh Assembly election, when the National Assembly for Wales was created.

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 Members of the Senedd, 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 and Westminster boundaries

As created in 1999, the region covered most of the preserved county of Clwyd, part of the preserved county of Gwynedd, and part of the preserved county of Powys. Other parts of these preserved counties were within the Mid and West Wales electoral region. For the 2007 Welsh Assembly election, however, boundaries changed, and the region now covers all of the preserved county of Clwyd and part of the preserved county of Gwynedd. The rest of Gwynedd is in the Mid and West Wales region.

The Senedd constituencies have the names of constituencies of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster). For Westminster election purposes, however, there are no electoral regions, and constituency boundary changes became effective for the 2010 United Kingdom general election.

Electoral region profile

The region is a mix of rural and urban areas, with the population higher in the east, where can be found the region's largest town, Wrexham, and the working-class conurbations of Deeside. The western areas, including the Isle of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), are largely rural. Although Anglesey and Gwynedd are home to large numbers of Welsh speakers, the language is not widely spoken in the north-east.

Constituencies

Constituency		Preserved county
Aberconwy	Janet Finch-Saunders Conservative	Entirely within Clwyd
Alyn and Deeside	Jack Sargeant Labour	Entirely within Clwyd
Arfon	Siân Gwenllian Plaid Cymru	Entirely within Gwynedd
Clwyd South	Ken Skates Labour	Entirely within Clwyd
Clwyd West	Darren Millar Conservative
Delyn	Hannah Blythyn Labour
Vale of Clwyd	Gareth Davies Conservative
Wrexham	Lesley Griffiths Labour
Ynys Môn	Rhun ap Iorwerth Plaid Cymru	Entirely within Gwynedd

Former constituencies

Constituency	Preserved counties
1. Alyn and Deeside	Entirely within Clwyd
2. Caernarfon	Entirely within Gwynedd
3. Clwyd South	Partly Clwyd, partly Powys
4. Clwyd West	Entirely within Clwyd
5. Conwy	Partly Clwyd, partly Gwynedd
6. Delyn	Entirely within Clwyd
7. Vale of Clwyd
8. Wrexham
9. Ynys Môn	Entirely within Gwynedd

Assembly members and Members of the Senedd

Constituency AMs and MSs

Term	Election	Conwy		Alyn and Deeside		Caernarfon		Clwyd South		Clwyd West		Delyn		Vale of Clwyd		Wrexham		Ynys Môn
1st	1999		Gareth Jones (PC)		Tom Middlehurst (Lab)		Dafydd Wigley (PC)		Karen Sinclair (Lab)		Alun Pugh (Lab)		Alison Halford (Lab)		Ann Jones (Lab)		John Marek (Lab) (later JMIP then Forward Wales)		Ieuan Wyn Jones (PC)
2nd	2003		Denise Idris Jones (Lab)		Carl Sargeant (Lab)		Alun Ffred Jones (PC)		Karen Sinclair (Lab)		Alun Pugh (Lab)		Sandy Mewies (Lab)		Ann Jones (Lab)		John Marek (Lab) (later JMIP then Forward Wales)		Ieuan Wyn Jones (PC)
Term	Election	Aberconwy		Alyn and Deeside		Arfon		Clwyd South		Clwyd West		Delyn		Vale of Clwyd		Wrexham		Ynys Môn
3rd	2007		Gareth Jones (PC)		Carl Sargeant (Lab)		Alun Ffred Jones (PC)		Karen Sinclair (Lab)		Darren Millar (Con)		Sandy Mewies (Lab)		Ann Jones (Lab)		Lesley Griffiths (Lab)		Ieuan Wyn Jones (PC)
4th	2011		Janet Finch-Saunders (Con)						Ken Skates (Lab)										Ieuan Wyn Jones (PC)
4th	2013																		Rhun ap Iorwerth (PC)
5th	2016						Siân Gwenllian (PC)						Hannah Blythyn (Lab)
5th	2018				Jack Sargeant (Lab)
6th	2021				Jack Sargeant (Lab)										Gareth Davies (Con)

Regional list AMs and MSs

N.B. This table is for presentation purposes only

Term	Election
1st	1999	Rod Richards (Con)	Peter Rogers (Con)	Christine Humphreys (LD)	Janet Ryder (PC)
	2001	Rod Richards (Con)		Eleanor Burnham (LD)
	2002	David Jones (Con)
2nd	2003	Mark Isherwood (Con)	Brynle Williams (Con)
3rd	2007		Brynle Williams (Con)
4th	2011		Antoinette Sandbach (Con)	Aled Roberts (LD)	Llyr Gruffydd (PC)
4th	2015		Janet Haworth (Con)	Aled Roberts (LD)
5th	2016		Nathan Gill (UKIP) (later Independent)	Michelle Brown (UKIP), later Independent
	2016		Nathan Gill (UKIP) (later Independent)
	2017		Mandy Jones (Independent) (later BREX)
	2019		Mandy Jones (Independent) (later BREX)
6th	2021		Sam Rowlands (Con)	Carolyn Thomas (Lab)

2021 Senedd election

See main article: 2021 Senedd election.

2021 Senedd election additional members

	Constituency seats	List votes (vote %)	D'Hondt entitlement	Additional members elected	Total members elected
	4	73,120 (32%)	5	1	5
	3	67,544 (30%)	5	2	5
	2	53,950 (24%)	3	1	3
	0	7,960 (4%)	0	0	0
	0	7,160 (3%)	0	0	0
	0	6,586 (3%)	0	0	0
	0	3,573 (2%)	0	0	0
	0	2,374 (1%)	0	0	0
Gwlad	0	1,228 (1%)	0	0	0
Freedom Alliance	0	1,186 (1%)	0	0	0
	0	557 (0%)	0	0	0
Propel	0	415 (0%)	0	0	0
	0	382 (0%)	0	0	0
	0	164 (0%)	0	0	0

(The fourth regional seat was allocated to the Conservatives rather than to Plaid Cymru by a margin of only 21 votes).

Regional MSs elected in 2021

Party		Name
		Llyr Huws Gruffydd
		Mark Isherwood

		Sam Rowlands

2016 Welsh Assembly election additional members

2016 National Assembly for Wales election North Wales
Party		Constituency seats	List votes (vote %)	D'Hondt entitlement	Additional members elected	Total members elected	Deviation from D'Hondt entitlement
		5	57,528 (28.1%)	4	0	5	+1
		2	47,701 (23.3%)	4	1	3	-1
		2	45,468 (22.2%)	3	1	3	0
		0	25,518 (12.5%)	2	2	2	0
		0	9,409 (4.6%)	0	0	0	0
		0	9,345 (4.6%)	0	0	0	0
		0	4,789 (2.3%)	0	0	0	0
	Association of Welsh Local Independents	0	1,865 (0.9%)	0	0	0	0
		0	1,355 (0.7%)	0	0	0	0
	Independent - Mark Young	0	926 (0.5%)	0	0	0	0
	Welsh Communist Party	0	586 (0.3%)	0	0	0	0

Regional AMs elected in 2016

Party		Name
		Mark Isherwood

		Nathan Gill
		Llyr Huws Gruffydd

2011 Welsh Assembly election additional members

2011 National Assembly for Wales election North Wales
Party	Constituency seats	List votes (vote %)	D'Hondt entitlement	Additional members elected	Total members elected	Deviation from D'Hondt entitlement
	5	62,677 (32.2%)	5	0	5	0
	2	52,201 (26.8%)	4	2	4	0
	2	41,701 (21.4%)	3	1	3	0
	0	11,507 (5.9%)	1	1	1	0
	0	9,608 (4.9%)	0	0	0	0
	0	4,895 (2.5%)	0	0	0	0
	0	4,785 (2.5%)	0	0	0	0
	0	4,406 (2.3%)	0	0	0	0
	0	1,401 (0.7%)	0	0	0	0
	0	1,094 (0.6%)	0	0	0	0
	0	523 (0.3%)	0	0	0	0

Regional AMs elected 2011

Party		Name
		Mark Isherwood
		Antoinette Sandbach †
		Aled Roberts
		Llyr Huws Gruffydd

† Resigned as AM following her election to the UK House of Commons on 7 May 2015; replaced by Janet Haworth from 27 May 2015.

2007 Welsh Assembly election additional members

2007 National Assembly for Wales election North Wales^[1]
Party	Constituency seats	List votes (vote %)	D'Hondt entitlement	Additional members elected	Total members elected	Deviation from D'Hondt entitlement
	5	51,831 (26.4%)	4	0	5	+1
	3	50,558 (25.7%)	4	1	4	0
	1	50,266 (25.6%)	4	2	3	−1
	0	15,275 (7.8%)	1	1	1	0
	0	9,986 (5.1%)	0	0	0	0
	0	8,015 (4.1%)	0	0	0	0
	0	5,660 (2.9%)	0	0	0	0
	0	2,209 (1.1%)	0	0	0	0
	0	1,300 (0.7%)	0	0	0	0
	0	700 (0.4%)	0	0	0	0
	0	642 (0.3%)	0	0	0	0

2003 Welsh Assembly election additional members

2003 National Assembly for Wales election North Wales^[2]
Party		Constituency seats	List votes (vote %)	D'Hondt entitlement	Additional members elected	Total members elected	Deviation from D'Hondt entitlement
		6	55,250 (31.6%)	5	0	6	+1
		2	41,640 (23.8%)	3	1	3	0
		0	38,543 (22.0%)	3	2	2	-1
		0	17,503 (10.0%)	1	1	1	0
		1	11,008 (6.3%)	1	0	1	0
		0	4,500 (2.6%)	0	0	0	0
		0	4,200 (2.4%)	0	0	0	0
	Cymru Annibynnol	0	1,552 (0.9%)	0	0	0	0
		0	522 (0.3%)	0	0	0	0
		0	310 (0.2%)	0	0	0	0

1999 Welsh Assembly election additional members

1999 National Assembly for Wales election North Wales region
Party		Constituency seats	List votes (vote %)	D'Hondt entitlement	Additional members elected	Total members elected	Deviation from D'Hondt entitlement
		6	73,673 (34.2%)	5	0	6	+1
		3	69,518 (32.3%)	5	1	4	-1
		0	41,700 (19.4%)	2	2	2	0
		0	22,130 (10.3%)	1	1	1	0
		0	4,667 (2.2%)	0	0	0	0
	Rhuddlan Debt Protest Campaign	0	1,353 (0.6%)	0	0	0	0
		0	828 (0.4%)	0	0	0	0
		0	917 (0.4%)	0	0	0	0
		0	714 (0.3%)	0	0	0	0

Notes and References

Web site: results BBC Election . 2007-07-29 . 2012-11-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121111165105/http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/bsp/hi/vote2007/maps/wales_regions/html/wales_regions_map.stm . live .
Web site: Archived copy . 2011-02-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110724020452/http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ass/constit/wr2.htm . 2011-07-24 . dead .