Clwyd South De Clwyd | |
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Senedd county constituency for the Senedd | |
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Current Senedd county constituency | |
Created | 1999 |
Party | Labour |
MS | Ken Skates |
Preserved county | Clwyd and Powys |
Clwyd South (Welsh: De 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.
Boundaries
[edit]The constituency was created for the first election to the then Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Clwyd South Westminster constituency. It is mostly within the preserved county of Clwyd and partly within the preserved county of Powys.
For the 2007 Assembly election, however, it became a constituency entirely within Clwyd. Part of its area was transferred to the Montgomeryshire constituency, in Powys. Also, part of its area was transferred to another Clwyd constituency, Clwyd West. For Westminster purposes, the same boundary changes became effective at the 2010 United Kingdom general election.
As created in 1999, the North Wales region includes the constituencies of Alyn and Deeside, Caernarfon, Clwyd West, Clwyd South, Conwy, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn. For the 2007 election the region will include Aberconwy, Alyn and Deeside, Arfon, Clwyd South, Clwyd West, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn.
For the period 1999 to 2007, the Clwyd South constituency can be described as consisting of electoral divisions as follows:
- Within Denbighshire:
- Corwen, Llandrillo and Llangollen
- Within Wrexham:
- Bronington, Brymbo, Bryn Cefn, Cefn, Chirk North, Chirk South, Coedpoeth, Dyffryn Ceiriog/Ceiriog Valley, Esclusham, Gwenfro, Johnstown, Llangollen Rural, Marchwiel, Minera, New Broughton, Overton, Pant, Penycae, Penycae and Ruabon South, Plas Madoc, Ponciau and Ruabon
Voting
[edit]In general 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.
Members of the Senedd
[edit]Election | Member | Party | Portrait | |
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1999 | Karen Sinclair | Labour | ||
2011 | Ken Skates | Labour | ![]() |
Constituency election results
[edit]Elections in the 2020s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Labour | Ken Skates[a] | 10,488 | 43.2 | +7.7 | 8,753 | 36.2 | +4.9 | |
Conservative | Barbara Hughes | 7,535 | 31.1 | +9.2 | 7,472 | 30.9 | +10.7 | |
Plaid Cymru | Llyr Gruffydd[b] | 4,094 | 16.9 | -0.5 | 4,533 | 18.8 | +0.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Leena Farhat | 730 | 3.0 | -7.3 | 715 | 3.0 | -5.9 | |
Abolish | Jonathon Harrington | 599 | 2.5 | New | 942 | 3.9 | -0.4 | |
UKIP | Jeanette Bassford-Barton | 522 | 2.2 | -10.6 | 387 | 1.6 | -11.1 | |
Reform UK | Mandy Jones[b] | 277 | 1.1 | New | 224 | 0.9 | New | |
Green | 730 | 3.0 | +0.9 | |||||
Freedom Alliance (UK) | 119 | 0.5 | New | |||||
Gwlad | 106 | 0.4 | New | |||||
Propel | 54 | 0.2 | New | |||||
Communist | 47 | 0.2 | -0.1 | |||||
Independent | Michelle Brown | 44 | 0.2 | New | ||||
TUSC | 21 | 0.1 | New | |||||
Majority | 2,953 | 11.1 | −2.5 | |||||
Turnout | 24,245 | 44.43[2] | +3.5 | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | |||||||
Elections in the 2010s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Constituency[3] | Regional[4] | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Labour | Ken Skates | 7,862 | 35.5 | -6.9 | 6,915 | 31.3 | -6.2 | |
Conservative | Simon Baynes | 4,846 | 21.9 | -7.3 | 4,472 | 20.2 | -4.0 | |
Plaid Cymru | Mabon ap Gwynfor | 3,861 | 17.4 | -1.2 | 4,106 | 18.6 | +1.5 | |
UKIP | Mandy Jones | 2,827 | 12.8 | New | 2,802 | 12.7 | +8.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Aled Roberts | 2,289 | 10.3 | +0.4 | 1,969 | 8.9 | +0.9 | |
Green | Duncan Rees | 474 | 2.1 | New | 520 | 2.4 | ±0.0 | |
Abolish | 951 | 4.3 | New | |||||
Monster Raving Loony | 132 | 0.6 | New | |||||
Association of Welsh Independents | 98 | 0.4 | New | |||||
Communist | 65 | 0.3 | +0.1 | |||||
Mark Young - Independent | 64 | 0.3 | New | |||||
Majority | 3,016 | 13.6 | +0.4 | |||||
Turnout | 22,159 | 40.9 | +4.0 | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.2 |
Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional[6] | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Labour | Ken Skates | 8,500 | 42.4 | +7.3 | 7,525 | 37.5 | +8.1 | |
Conservative | Paul Rogers | 5,841 | 29.2 | -0.1 | 4,853 | 24.2 | -1.9 | |
Plaid Cymru | Mabon ap Gwynfor | 3,719 | 18.6 | -1.4 | 3,435 | 17.1 | -1.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Bruce Roberts | 1,977 | 9.9 | +0.5 | 1,600 | 8.0 | -0.7 | |
UKIP | 867 | 4.3 | -0.1 | |||||
BNP | 535 | 2.7 | -4.4 | |||||
Green | 486 | 2.4 | -0.4 | |||||
Socialist Labour | 454 | 2.3 | +0.7 | |||||
Welsh Christian | 159 | 0.8 | +0.2 | |||||
Weyman - Independent | 96 | 0.5 | New | |||||
Communist | 50 | 0.2 | -0.1 | |||||
Majority | 2,659 | 13.2 | +7.4 | |||||
Turnout | 20,037 | 36.9 | −1.0 | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | +3.75 |
Regional ballots rejected: 172[7]
Elections in the 2000s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional[8] | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Labour | Karen Sinclair | 6,838 | 35.1 | -1.4 | 5,725 | 29.4 | -3.1 | |
Conservative | John Bell | 5,719 | 29.3 | +10.3 | 5,092 | 26.1 | +7.2 | |
Plaid Cymru | Nia Davies | 3,894 | 20.0 | -1.0 | 3,602 | 18.5 | -0.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Frank Biggs | 1,838 | 9.4 | +0.5 | 1,702 | 8.7 | -0.3 | |
UKIP | David Rowlands | 1,209 | 6.2 | +3.5 | 857 | 4.4 | +2.0 | |
BNP | 1,384 | 7.1 | New | |||||
Green | 546 | 2.8 | +0.7 | |||||
Socialist Labour | 315 | 1.6 | New | |||||
Welsh Christian | 110 | 0.6 | New | |||||
Communist | 65 | 0.3 | New | |||||
CPA | 94 | 0.5 | New | |||||
Majority | 1,119 | 5.8 | −9.7 | |||||
Turnout | 19,498 | 37.9 | +3.5 | |||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional[9] | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Labour | Karen Sinclair | 6,814 | 36.5 | -5.7 | 6,057 | 32.5 | ||
Plaid Cymru | Dyfed W. Edwards | 3,923 | 21.0 | -4.3 | 3,604 | 19.3 | ||
Conservative | Albert M.Fox | 3,548 | 19.0 | -0.1 | 3,524 | 18.9 | ||
Independent | Marc V. Jones | 2,210 | 11.8 | New | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Derek W.L. Burnham | 1,666 | 8.9 | -2.3 | 1,571 | 8.4 | ||
UKIP | Edwina E. Theunissen | 501 | 2.7 | New | 451 | 2.4 | ||
John Marek Independent Party | 2,850 | 15.3 | ||||||
Green | 391 | 2.1 | ||||||
Cymru Annibynnol | 102 | 0.5 | ||||||
Communist | 52 | 0.3 | ||||||
ProLife Alliance | 26 | 0.1 | ||||||
Majority | 2,891 | 15.5 | −1.4 | |||||
Turnout | 18,662 | 34.4 | −6.1 | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | -0.7 |
2003 Electorate: 53,452
Regional ballots rejected: 230
Elections in the 1990s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Constituency[11] | Regional | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Labour | Karen Sinclair | 9,196 | 42.2 | N/A | 8,706 | 40.1 | N/A | |
Plaid Cymru | Hywel Williams | 5,511 | 25.3 | N/A | 5,866 | 27.0 | N/A | |
Conservative | David R. Jones | 4,167 | 19.1 | N/A | 4,010 | 18.5 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Derek W.L. Burnham | 2,432 | 11.2 | N/A | 2,155 | 9.9 | N/A | |
Independent | Maurice Jones | 508 | 2.3 | N/A | ||||
United Socialist | 166 | 0.8 | N/A | |||||
Green | Unknown | Unknown | N/A | |||||
Rhuddlan Debt Protest Campaign | Unknown | Unknown | N/A | |||||
Communist | Unknown | Unknown | N/A | |||||
Natural Law | Unknown | Unknown | N/A | |||||
Above list parties | 802 | 3.7 | N/A | |||||
Majority | 3,685 | 16.9 | N/A | |||||
Turnout | 21,814 | 40.5 | N/A | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
References
[edit]- ^ [1] Clwyd South Statement of Persons Nominated
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