Vale of Clwyd (Senedd constituency) should not be confused with Vale of Clwyd (UK Parliament constituency).
| Vale of Clwyd Welsh: Dyffryn Clwyd|label=none | |
| Constituency Type: | Senedd county constituency |
| Parl Name: | Senedd |
| Year: | 1999 |
| Member Label: | MS |
| Member: | Gareth Davies |
| Party Label: | Party |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Parts Label: | Preserved county |
| Parts: | Clwyd |
The Vale of Clwyd (Welsh: Dyffryn Clwyd) 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 nine constituencies in the North Wales electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to nine constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Vale of Clwyd Westminster constituency. It is entirely within the preserved county of Clwyd. From the 2007 Assembly election, the constituency has included an area currently within the Clwyd West constituency. For Westminster purposes, the same boundary change became effective for the 2010 United Kingdom general election.
When created in 1999, the North Wales region included the constituencies of Alyn and Deeside, Caernarfon, Clwyd South, Clwyd West, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn.
Since the 2007 Assembly election, the region includes Aberconwy, Alyn and Deeside, Arfon, Clwyd South, Conwy, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn.
In 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.
| Election | Member | Party | Portrait | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999–2021 | Ann Jones | Labour | |||
| 2021–present | Gareth Davies | Conservative | |||
Regional ballots rejected: 186[1]
2003 Electorate: 49,319
Regional ballots rejected: 534