South Wales Central (Senedd electoral region) explained

South Wales Central
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Senedd electoral region
South Wales Central shown within Wales
Created 1999
Current representation
Labour	8 MSs
Conservative	2 MSs
Plaid Cymru	2 MSs
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)

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 National Assembly for Wales was created.

Each constituency elects one Member of the Senedd (MSs) by the first past the post electoral system, and the region as a whole elects four additional or top-up MSs, 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 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	2021 result		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		Elizabeth Williams Labour	Entirely within Mid Glamorgan
Vale of Glamorgan		Jane Hutt Labour	Partly Mid Glamorgan, partly South Glamorgan

Assembly members and Members of the Senedd

Constituency MSs

Term	Election	Cardiff Central		Cardiff North		Cardiff South and Penarth		Cardiff West		Cynon Valley		Pontypridd		Rhondda		Vale of Glamorgan
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														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										Vikki Howells (Lab)				Leanne Wood (PC)
6th	2021														Buffy Williams (Lab)

Regional list AMs and MSs

N.B. This table is for presentation purposes only

Term	Election	AM / MS		AM / MS		AM / MS		AM / MS
1st	1999		Jonathan Morgan (Con)		David Melding (Con)		Owen John Thomas (PC)		Pauline Jarman (PC)
2nd	2003								Leanne Wood (PC)
3rd	2007		Andrew RT Davies (Con)				Chris Franks (PC)
4th	2011						Eluned Parrott (LD)
5th	2016						Gareth Bennett (UKIP) later then Abolish		Neil McEvoy (PC) later then Propel
	2018
	2020
6th	2021				Joel James (Con)		Rhys ab Owen (PC)		Heledd Fychan (PC)

2021 Senedd election^[1]

See main article: 2021 Senedd election.

2021 Senedd election additional members

Party		Constituency seats	List votes (vote %)	D'Hondt entitlement	Additional members elected	Total members elected	Deviation from D'Hondt entitlement
		8	102,611 (40%)	6	0	8	+2
		0	56,662 (22%)	3	2	2	-1
		0	46,478 (18%)	3	2	2	-1
		0	14,478 (6%)	0	0	0	0
		0	11,821 (5%)	0	0	0	0
		0	8,396 (3%)	0	0	0	0
	Propel	0	5,552 (2%)	0	0	0	0
		0	3,127 (1%)	0	0	0	0
		0	2,244 (1%)	0	0	0	0
	No More Lockdowns	0	1.298 (1%)	0	0	0	0
	Gwlad	0	1,098 (0%)	0	0	0	0
		0	602 (0%)	0	0	0	0
	Independent (Alan Coulthard)	0	580 (0%)	0	0	0	0
		0	519 (0%)	0	0	0	0
		0	411 (0%)	0	0	0	0

Regional MSs elected in 2021

Party		Name
		Andrew RT Davies
			Rhys ab Owen
		Joel James
		Heledd Fychan

2016 Welsh Assembly election additional members

Party		Constituency seats	List votes (vote %)^[2]	D'Hondt entitlement	Additional members elected	Total members elected	Deviation from D'Hondt entitlement
		7	78,366 (34%)	5	0	7	+2
		1	48,357 (21%)	3	1	2	-1
		0	42,185 (18%)	3	2	2	-1
		0	23,958 (10%)	1	1	1	0
		0	14,875 (6%)	0	0	0	0
		0	9,163 (4%)	0	0	0	0
		0	7,949 (3%)	0	0	0	0
		0	2,807 (1%)	0	0	0	0
		0	1,096 (0%)	0	0	0	0
		0	736 (0%)	0	0	0	0
		0	520 (0%)	0	0	0	0
	Freedom to Choose	0	470 (0.2%)	0	0	0	0

Regional AMs elected in 2016

Party		Name
		Andrew RT Davies
		David Melding
		Neil McEvoy
		Gareth Bennett

2011 Welsh Assembly election additional members

Party		Constituency seats	List votes (vote %)	D'Hondt entitlement	Additional members elected	Total members elected	Deviation from D'Hondt entitlement
		8	85,445 (41.0%)	6	0	8	+2
		0	45,751 (22.0%)	3	2	2	−1
		0	28,606 (13.7%)	2	1	1	−1
		0	16,514 (7.9%)	1	1	1	0
		0	10,774 (5.2%)	0	0	0	0
		0	8,292 (4.0%)	0	0	0	0
		0	4,690 (2.3%)	0	0	0	0
		0	3,805 (1.8%)	0	0	0	0
		0	1,873 (0.9%)	0	0	0	0
		0	1,237 (0.6%)	0	0	0	0
		0	830 (0.4%)	0	0	0	0
		0	516 (0.2%)	0	0	0	0

Regional AMs elected in 2011

Party		Name
		Andrew RT Davies
		David Melding
		Eluned Parrott †
		Leanne Wood

† Replaced John Dixon, who was disqualified for being a member of a public body to which AMs cannot belong.^[3]

2007 Welsh Assembly election additional members^[4]

Party		Constituency seats	List votes (vote %)	D'Hondt entitlement	Additional members elected	Total members elected	Deviation from D'Hondt entitlement
		6	70,799 (34.0%)	5	0	6	+1
		1	45,127 (21.7%)	3	2	3	0
		0	32,207 (15.5%)	2	2	2	0
		1	29,626 (14.0%)	2	0	1	−1
		0	7,889 (3.8%)	0	0	0	0
		0	7,831 (3.8%)	0	0	0	0
		0	7,645 (3.7%)	0	0	0	0
		0	1,987 (1.0%)	0	0	0	0
		0	1,744 (0.8%)	0	0	0	0
		0	1,079 (0.5%)	0	0	0	0
		0	838 (0.4%)	0	0	0	0
		0	817 (0.4%)	0	0	0	0
		0	757 (0.4%)	0	0	0	0
		0	292 (0.1%)	0	0	0	0

2003 Welsh Assembly election additional members^[5]

Party		Constituency seats	List votes (vote %)	D'Hondt entitlement	Additional members elected	Total members elected	Deviation from D'Hondt entitlement
		7	74,369 (41.08%)	6	0	7	+1
		0	33,404 (18.45%)	2	2	2	0
		0	27,956 (15.44%)	2	2	2	0
		1	24,926 (13.77%)	2	0	1	-1
		0	6,920 (3.82.%)	0	0	0	0
		0	6,047 (3.34%)	0	0	0	0
		0	3,217 (1.78%)	0	0	0	0
	New Millennium Bean Party	0	1,027 (0.57%)	0	0	0	0
	Cymru Annibynnol	0	1,018 (0.56%)	0	0	0	0
	Vote 2 Stop the War	0	1,013 (0.56%)	0	0	0	0
		0	577 (0.32%)	0	0	0	0
		0	573 (0.32%)	0	0	0	0

1999 Welsh Assembly election additional members^[6]

Party		Constituency seats	List votes (vote %)	D'Hondt entitlement	Additional members elected	Total members elected	Deviation from D'Hondt entitlement
		6	79,564 (36.92%)	5	0	6	+1
		1	58,080 (26.95%)	3	2	3	0
		0	34,944 (16.22%)	2	2	2	0
		1	30,911 (14.35%)	2	0	1	−1
		0	5,336 (2.48%)	0	0	0	0
		0	2,822 (1.31%)	0	0	0	0
	Independent- Alun Mathias	0	1,524 (0.71%)	0	0	0	0
		0	665 (0.31%)	0	0	0	0
		0	652 (0.30%)	0	0	0	0
		0	602 (0.28%)	0	0	0	0
	Independent- Paul Phillips	0	378 (0.18%)	0	0	0	0

Notes and References

1. Web site: Senedd Cymru Election Result - South Wales Central Region . Vale of Glamorgan . 8 May 2021 . 8 May 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210508154654/https://www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk/en/our_council/Council-Structure/Elections/Election-Results-May-2021/Senedd-Cymru-Election-Result-South-Wales-Central-Region.aspx . live .
2. Web site: Election results for South Wales Central, 5 May 2016. May 5, 2016. cardiff.moderngov.co.uk. 22 August 2017. 22 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170822215338/https://cardiff.moderngov.co.uk/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?ID=64&RPID=0. live.
3. News: No return for disqualified Dixon. Daniel. Davies. BBC News. July 5, 2011. September 26, 2020. October 19, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211019125639/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-14037418. live.
4. News: 2007 results. BBC News. 2007-07-26. 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.
5. Web site: Election results for South Wales Central, 1 May 2003 . Business.senedd.wales . 2021-11-27 . 2021-10-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211019123113/https://business.senedd.wales/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?ID=143 . live .
6. Web site: Election results for South Wales Central, 6 May 1999. 27 August 2021. 27 August 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210827162517/https://business.senedd.wales/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?ID=133&RPID=0. live.