Aberconwy (Senedd Cymru constituency)

Aberconwy is a Senedd Cymru Constituency first created for use in the 2007 election. It elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. 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.

Not to be confused with Aberconwy (UK Parliament constituency).

Aberconwy
Senedd Cymru county constituency
Aberconwy shown within the North Wales electoral region and the region shown within Wales
Current Senedd Cymru county constituency
Created	2007
Party	Welsh Conservative
AM	Janet Finch-Saunders
Preserved county	Clwyd
Created from	Conwy and Meirionnydd Nant Conwy

History

Since its creation, this seat has been a three-way marginal constituency between the Conservatives, Labour and Plaid Cymru. Plaid won this seat in the 2007 election but since then the Conservatives have narrowly held the constituency.

Party averages from 5 elections: Conservative - 33% Plaid Cymru - 32% Labour - 24.9% Lib Dem - 9%

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Boundaries

The constituency has the same boundary as the Aberconwy Westminster constituency, which came into use for the 2010 United Kingdom general election. It was created in 2007 and merges into one constituency areas formerly within the Conwy and Meirionnydd Nant Conwy constituencies. Conwy was a constituency within the North Wales electoral region, straddling the boundary between the preserved county of Clwyd and the preserved county of Gwynedd. Meirionnydd Nant Conwy also straddled this boundary, but was within the Mid and West Wales region.

Aberconwy constituency is entirely within the preserved county of Clwyd.

It is composed of the Conwy electoral divisions: Betws-y-Coed, Bryn, Caerhun, Capelulo, Conwy, Craig-y-Don, Crwst, Deganwy, Egwysbach, Gogarth, Gower, Llansanffraid, Marl, Mostyn, Pandy, Penmaenan, Penrhyn, Pensarn, Trefriw, Tudno, and Uwch Conwy.

The North Wales region was created for the first Assembly election, in 1999. For the 2007 election, however, it had new boundaries. It includes the constituencies of Aberconwy, Alyn and Deeside, Arfon, Clwyd South, Clwyd West, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn.

Voting

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.

Assembly Members and Members of the Senedd

Election		Member	Party	Portrait
	2007	Gareth Jones	Plaid Cymru
	2011	Janet Finch-Saunders	Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Aberconwy Count 2016 Janet Finch Saunders, Sarah Lesiter-Burgess, Petra Haig, Mike Priestley; Trystan Lewis

Welsh Assembly Election 2016: Aberconwy

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Janet Finch-Saunders	7,646	34.7	+0.7
	Plaid Cymru	Trystan Lewis	6,892	31.3	+5.0
	Labour	Mike Priestley	6,039	27.4	+1.7
	Liberal Democrats	Sarah Lesiter-Burgess	781	3.5	−10.6
	Green	Petra Haig	680	3.1	+3.1
Majority			754	3.4	-4.3
Turnout				49	+3.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	−2.2

Welsh Assembly Election 2011: Aberconwy[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Janet Finch-Saunders	6,888	34.0	+3.6
	Plaid Cymru	Iwan Huws	5,321	26.2	−12.3
	Labour	Eifion Williams	5,206	25.7	+3.9
	Liberal Democrats	Mike Priestley	2,873	14.2	+4.9
Majority			1,567	7.7
Turnout			20,288	45.1	−1.8
	Conservative gain from Plaid Cymru		Swing	+7.95

Elections in the 2000s

Welsh Assembly Election 2007: Aberconwy

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Plaid Cymru	Gareth Jones	7,983	38.6	N/A
	Conservative	Dylan Jones-Evans	6,290	30.4	N/A
	Labour	Denise Idris Jones	4,508	21.8	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Euron Hughes	1,918	9.3	N/A
Majority			1,693	8.2	N/A
Turnout			20,699	46.9	N/A
	Plaid Cymru win (new seat)

References

1. "Wales elections > Aberconwy". BBC News. 6 May 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2011.