South Wales East (National Assembly for Wales electoral region)

**South Wales East**
Welsh Assembly electoral region

Created 1999
Current representation
Labour	7 AMs
UKIP	2 AMs
Conservative	2 AMs
Plaid Cymru	1 AMs
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 National Assembly for Wales, 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 Assembly Member by the first past the post electoral system, and the region as a whole elects four additional or top-up Assembly Members, 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 mining 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		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 Welsh Labour	Partly Gwent partly Mid Glamorgan
Monmouth	Nick Ramsay 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

Additional Assembly members

AMs for South Wales East, 1999 onwards
Election	1999 (1st Assembly)	2003 (2nd Assembly)	2007 (3rd Assembly)	2011 (4th Assembly)	2016 (5th Assembly)
AM Party	Phil Williams Plaid Cymru	Laura Anne Jones Conservative	Mohammad Asghar Plaid Cymru (2007–2009) Conservative (2009–)
AM Party	Jocelyn Davies Plaid Cymru				David Rowlands UKIP
AM Party	William Graham Conservative				Mark Reckless UKIP
AM Party	Mike German Liberal Democrat			Lindsay Whittle Plaid Cymru	Steffan Lewis Plaid Cymru

2016 Welsh Assembly election additional members

	Constituency Seats	List Votes (vote %)	D'Hondt Entitlement	Additional Members Elected	Total Members Elected	Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement
Labour	7	74,424 (38.3%)	6	0	7	+1
UKIP	0	34,524 (17.8%)	2	2	2	0
Conservative	1	33,318 (17.2%)	2	1	2	0
Plaid Cymru	0	29,626 (15.3%)	2	1	1	-1
Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party	0	7,870 (4.1%)	0	0	0	0
Liberal Democrats	0	6,784 (3.5%)	0	0	0	0
Green	0	4,831 (2.5%)	0	0	0	0
Monster Raving Loony	0	1,115 (0.6%)	0	0	0	0
TUSC	0	618 (0.3%)	0	0	0	0
Communist	0	492 (0.2%)	0	0	0	0
National Front	0	429 (0.2%)	0	0	0	0

Regional AMs elected 2016

Party		Name
	UKIP	Mark Reckless
	UKIP	David Rowlands
	Conservative	Oscar Asghar
	Plaid Cymru	Steffan Lewis

2011 Welsh Assembly election additional members

	Constituency Seats	List Votes (vote %)	D'Hondt Entitlement	Additional Members Elected	Total Members Elected
Labour	7	82,699 (45.7%)	7	0	7
Conservative	1	35,459 (19.6%)	3	2	3
Plaid Cymru	0	21,851 (12.1%)	2	2	2
Liberal Democrats	0	10,798 (6.0%)	0	0	0
UKIP	0	9,526 (5.3%)	0	0	0
BNP	0	6,485 (3.6%)	0	0	0
Green	0	4,857 (2.7%)	0	0	0
Socialist Labour	0	4,427 (2.4%)	0	0	0
Welsh Christian	0	2,441 (1.3%)	0	0	0
English Democrat	0	1,904 (1.1%)	0	0	0
Communist	0	578 (0.3%)	0	0	0

Regional AMs elected 2011

Party		Name
	Conservative	Mohammad Asghar
	Conservative	William Graham
	Plaid Cymru	Jocelyn Davies
	Plaid Cymru	Lindsay Whittle

2007 Welsh Assembly election additional members ^[1]

	Constituency Seats	List Votes (vote %)	D'Hondt Entitlement	Additional Members Elected	Total Members Elected	Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement
Labour	6	67,998 (35.8%)	6	0	6	0
Conservative	1	37,935 (20.0%)	3	1	2	−1
Plaid Cymru	0	25,915 (13.6%)	2	2	2	0
Liberal Democrats	0	20,947 (11.0%)	1	1	1	0
BNP	0	8,940 (4.7%)	0	0	0	0
Green	0	5,414 (2.8%)	0	0	0	0
UKIP	0	8,725 (4.6%)	0	0	0	0
Independent	1	4,876 (2.6%)	0	0	1	+1
Socialist Labour	0	3,694 (1.9%)	0	0	0	0
Welsh Christian	0	2,498 (1.3%)	0	0	0	0
English Democrat	0	1,655 (0.9%)	0	0	0	0
Communist	0	979 (0.5%)	0	0	0	0
Christian Peoples	0	489 (0.3%)	0	0	0	0

On 8 December 2009, Plaid Cymru list member for South Wales East defected to the Conservative Party, giving Plaid one AM, and the Conservatives three.^[2]

2003 Welsh Assembly additional members ^[3]

	Constituency Seats	List Votes (vote %)	D'Hondt Entitlement	Additional Members Elected	Total Members Elected
Labour	7	76,522 (45.08%)	7	0	7
Conservative	1	34,231 (20.17%)	3	2	3
Plaid Cymru	0	21,384 (12.60%)	1	1	1
Liberal Democrats	0	17,661 (10.41%)	1	1	1
UKIP	0	5,949 (3.50%)	0	0	0
Green	0	5,291 (3.12%)	0	0	0
Socialist Labour	0	3,695 (2.18%)	0	0	0
BNP	0	3,210 (1.89%)	0	0	0
Cymru Annibynnol	0	1,226 (0.72%)	0	0	0
ProLife Alliance	0	562 (0.33%)	0	0	0

1999 Welsh Assembly additional members ^[4]

	Constituency Seats	List Votes (vote %)	D'Hondt Entitlement	Additional Members Elected	Total Members Elected
Labour	6	83,953 (41.45%)	6	0	6
Plaid Cymru	1	49,139 (24.26%)	3	2	3
Conservative	1	33,947 (16.76%)	2	1	2
Liberal Democrats	0	24,757 (12.22%)	1	1	1
Socialist Labour	0	4,879 (2.41%)	0	0	0
Green	0	4,055 (2.00%)	0	0	0
Socialist Alliance	0	903 (0.45%)	0	0	0
Natural Law	0	898 (0.44%)	0	0	0

Notes

Electoral regions and Constituencies of the National Assembly for Wales

Mid and West Wales	Brecon and Radnorshire Carmarthen East and Dinefwr Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire Ceredigion Dwyfor Meirionnydd Llanelli Montgomeryshire Preseli Pembrokeshire

North Wales	Aberconwy Alyn and Deeside Arfon Clwyd South Clwyd West Delyn Vale of Clwyd Wrexham Ynys Môn

South Wales Central	Cardiff Central Cardiff North Cardiff South and Penarth Cardiff West Cynon Valley Pontypridd Rhondda Vale of Glamorgan

South Wales East	Blaenau Gwent Caerphilly Islwyn Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney Monmouth Newport East Newport West Torfaen

South Wales West	Aberavon Bridgend Gower Neath Ogmore Swansea East Swansea West

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