South Wales East (Senedd electoral region) explained

South Wales East
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Senedd electoral region
Created 1999
Current representation
	7 MSs
	3 MSs
Plaid Cymru	2 MSs
Constituencies 1. Blaenau Gwent 2. Caerphilly 3. Islwyn 4. Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney 5. Monmouth 6. Newport East 7. Newport West 8. Torfaen
Preserved counties Gwent Mid Glamorgan (part)

South Wales East 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 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 boundaries

The region covers the whole of the preserved county of Gwent and part of the preserved county of Mid Glamorgan. The rest of Mid Glamorgan is mostly within the South Wales Central electoral region and partly within the South Wales West region.

Electoral region profile

The region is one of contrasts; it includes the city of Newport, along with the town of Caerphilly. It also takes in the working-class former iron town of Merthyr Tydfil, one of the most deprived towns in the UK, but also rural Monmouthshire, one of the most affluent parts of Wales.

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
Blaenau Gwent		Alun Davies Labour	Entirely within Gwent
Caerphilly		Hefin David Labour	Entirely within Gwent
Islwyn		Rhianon Passmore Labour	Entirely within Gwent
Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney		Dawn Bowden Labour	Partly Gwent partly Mid Glamorgan
Monmouth		Peter Fox Conservative	Entirely within Gwent
Newport East		John Griffiths Labour & Co-operative	Entirely within Gwent
Newport West		Jayne Bryant Labour	Entirely within Gwent
Torfaen		Lynne Neagle Labour	Entirely within Gwent

Assembly members and Members of the Senedd

Constituency AMs and MSs

Term	Election	Blaenau Gwent		Caerphilly		Islwyn		Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney		Monmouth		Newport East		Newport West		Torfaen
1st	1999		Peter Law (Lab) (later Ind)		Ron Davies (Lab)		Brian Hancock (PC)		Huw Lewis (Lab)		David TC Davies (Con)		John Griffiths (Lab)		Rosemary Butler (Lab)		Lynne Neagle (Lab)
2nd	2003				Jeffrey Cuthbert (Lab)		Irene James (Lab)
	2005
	2006		Trish Law (PV)
3rd	2007										Nick Ramsay (Con)
4th	2011		Alun Davies (Lab)				Gwyn Price (Lab)
5th	2016				Hefin David (Lab)		Rhianon Passmore (Lab)		Dawn Bowden (Lab)						Jayne Bryant (Lab)
6th	2021										Peter Fox (Con)

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		Phil Williams (PC)		William Graham (Con)		Jocelyn Davies (PC)		Mike German (LD)
2nd	2003		Laura Anne Jones (Con)
3rd	2007		Mohammad Asghar (PC) (later Con)
	2009
	2010								Veronica German (LD)
4th	2011								Lindsay Whittle (PC)
5th	2016				Mark Reckless (UKIP) (later Con, Ind, BREX) then Abolish		David Rowlands (UKIP) BREX), then Indi		Steffan Lewis (PC)
	2017
	2019								Delyth Jewell^[1] (PC)
	2020^[2] ^[3]		Laura Anne Jones (Con)
6th	2021				Natasha Asghar (Con)		Peredur Owen Griffiths (PC)

2021 Senedd election

See main article: 2021 Senedd election.

2021 Senedd election additional members

Party		Constituency seats	List votes (vote %)^[4]	D'Hondt entitlement	Additional members elected	Total members elected	Deviation from D'Hondt entitlement
		7	85,988 (41%)	6	0	7	+1
		1	52,323 (25%)	4	2	3	-1
		0	30,530 (15%)	2	2	2	0
		0	9,995 (5%)	0	0	0	0
		0	9,950 (5%)	0	0	0	0
		0	7,045 (3%)	0	0	0	0
		0	4,101 (2%)	0	0	0	0
		0	2,756 (1%)	0	0	0	0
	Gwlad	0	1,841 (1%)	0	0	0	0
	No More Lockdowns	0	1,496 (1%)	0	0	0	0
	Propel	0	924 (0%)	0	0	0	0
		0	606 (0%)	0	0	0	0
		0	362 (0%)	0	0	0	0

Regional MSs elected 2021

Party		Name
		Delyth Jewell
		Laura Anne Jones
		Natasha Asghar
		Peredur Owen Griffiths

2016 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
		7	74,424 (38.3%)	6	0	7	+1
		0	34,524 (17.8%)	2	2	2	0
		1	33,318 (17.2%)	2	1	2	0
		0	29,626 (15.3%)	2	1	1	-1
		0	7,870 (4.1%)	0	0	0	0
		0	6,784 (3.5%)	0	0	0	0
		0	4,831 (2.5%)	0	0	0	0
		0	1,115 (0.6%)	0	0	0	0
		0	618 (0.3%)	0	0	0	0
		0	492 (0.2%)	0	0	0	0
		0	429 (0.2%)	0	0	0	0

Regional AMs elected 2016

Party		Name
	UKIP	Mark Reckless
	UKIP	David Rowlands
	Conservative	Mohammad Asghar
		Steffan Lewis

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
		7	82,699 (45.7%)	7	0	7	0
		1	35,459 (19.6%)	3	2	3	0
		0	21,851 (12.1%)	2	2	2	0
		0	10,798 (6.0%)	0	0	0	0
		0	9,526 (5.3%)	0	0	0	0
		0	6,485 (3.6%)	0	0	0	0
		0	4,857 (2.7%)	0	0	0	0
		0	4,427 (2.4%)	0	0	0	0
		0	2,441 (1.3%)	0	0	0	0
		0	1,904 (1.1%)	0	0	0	0
		0	578 (0.3%)	0	0	0	0

Regional AMs elected 2011

Party		Name
		Mohammad Asghar
		William Graham
		Jocelyn Davies
		Lindsay Whittle

2007 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
		6	67,998 (35.8%)	6	0	6	0
		1	37,935 (20.0%)	3	1	2	−1
		0	25,915 (13.6%)	2	2	2	0
		0	20,947 (11.0%)	1	1	1	0
		0	8,940 (4.7%)	0	0	0	0
		0	8,725 (4.6%)	0	0	0	0
		0	5,414 (2.8%)	0	0	0	0
		1	4,876 (2.6%)	0	0	1	+1
		0	3,694 (1.9%)	0	0	0	0
		0	2,498 (1.3%)	0	0	0	0
		0	1,655 (0.9%)	0	0	0	0
		0	979 (0.5%)	0	0	0	0
		0	489 (0.3%)	0	0	0	0

On 8 December 2009, Mohammad Asghar, Plaid Cymru's list member for South Wales East, defected to the Conservative Party. This gave Plaid one AM, and the Conservatives two.^[6]

2003 Welsh Assembly additional members^[7]

Party		Constituency seats	List votes (vote %)	D'Hondt entitlement	Additional members elected	Total members elected	Deviation from D'Hondt entitlement
		7	76,522 (45.08%)	7	0	7	0
		1	34,231 (20.17%)	3	2	3	0
		0	21,384 (12.60%)	1	1	1	0
		0	17,661 (10.41%)	1	1	1	0
		0	5,949 (3.50%)	0	0	0	0
		0	5,291 (3.12%)	0	0	0	0
		0	3,695 (2.18%)	0	0	0	0
		0	3,210 (1.89%)	0	0	0	0
	Cymru Annibynnol	0	1,226 (0.72%)	0	0	0	0
		0	562 (0.33%)	0	0	0	0

1999 Welsh Assembly additional members^[7]

Party		Constituency seats	List votes (vote %)	D'Hondt entitlement	Additional members elected	Total members elected	Deviation from D'Hondt entitlement
		6	83,953 (41.45%)	6	0	6	0
		1	49,139 (24.26%)	3	2	3	0
		1	33,947 (16.76%)	2	1	2	0
		0	24,757 (12.22%)	1	1	1	0
		0	4,879 (2.41%)	0	0	0	0
		0	4,055 (2.00%)	0	0	0	0
		0	903 (0.45%)	0	0	0	0
		0	898 (0.44%)	0	0	0	0

Notes and References

1. News: 2019-01-16. New AM following death of Steffan Lewis. en-GB. BBC News. 2020-06-16. 2021-05-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20210510195700/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-46898151. live.
2. News: Welsh Conservative MS Mohammad Asghar has died aged 74. Western Mail. 16 June 2020. 16 June 2020. 16 June 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200616194842/https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/mohammad-asghar-dies-conservatives-senedd-18433249. live.
3. Web site: Laura Anne Jones confirmed as Member of the Senedd for South Wales East. 2020-07-02. Welsh Parliament. en-GB. 2020-07-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20200703114555/https://senedd.wales/en/newhome/Pages/newsitem.aspx?itemid=2111. live.
4. Web site: Senedd Cymru Election Result - South Wales East Region . Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council . 12 May 2021 . 12 May 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210512154728/https://www.blaenau-gwent.gov.uk/fileadmin/documents/Resident/Voting_and_Elections/Senedd_2021/DECLARATION_OF_RESULT_OF_REGIONAL_POLL_2021.pdf . live .
5. Web site: BBC NEWS Politics Vote 2007. news.bbc.co.uk. 2007-07-27. 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.
6. News: Plaid AM defects to Conservatives. 8 December 2009. BBC News. 16 June 2020. 2 May 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200502235445/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/wales_politics/8401427.stm. live.
7. Web site: 2011-08-07. Welsh National Assembly regional constituency: South Wales East [Archive]]. 2020-06-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20110807073928/http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ass/constit/wr4.htm. 2011-08-07.