Monmouth (National Assembly for Wales constituency)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Monmouth

Welsh Assembly county constituency
Monmouth shown as one of the 40 Welsh Assembly constituencies
Created:	1999
Electoral region:	South Wales East
AM:	Nick Ramsay
Party:	Conservative
Preserved county:	Gwent

Monmouth is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of eight constituencies in the South Wales East electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to eight constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Voting 3 Members of the National Assembly for Wales 4 Results

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Monmouth Westminster constituency. It is entirely within the preserved county of Gwent.

The other seven constituencies of the region are Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Islwyn, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Newport East, Newport West and Torfaen.

[edit] Voting

In general elections for the National Assembly for Wales, each voter has two votes. The first vote may be used to vote for a candidate to become the Assembly Member 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.

[edit] Members of the National Assembly for Wales

Election		Member	Party
	1999-2007	David Davies	Conservative
	2007-present	Nick Ramsay	Conservative

[edit] Results

Welsh Assembly election 2007: Monmouth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Nick Ramsay	15,389	52.0	-5.5
	Labour	Richard Clark	6,920	23.4	-3.5
	Liberal Democrat	Jacqui Sullivan	4,359	14.7	+4.0
	Plaid Cymru	Jonathan Clark	2,093	7.1	+2.2
	English Democrats	Ed Abrams	804	2.7	N/A
Majority			8,469	28.6
Turnout			29,565	46.9	+2.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

Welsh Assembly election 2003: Monmouth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Davies	15,989	57.5
	Labour	Sian James	7,479	26.9
	Liberal Democrat	Alison Willott	2,973	10.7
	Plaid Cymru	Stephen Thomas	1,355	4.9
Majority			8,510	30.6
Turnout				44.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

Welsh Assembly election 1999: Monmouth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Davies	12,950	40.9
	Labour	Cherry Short	10,238	32.3
	Liberal Democrat	Chris Lines	4,639	14.6
	Plaid Cymru	Marc Hubbard	1,964	6.2
	Tourism and Farmers	Anthony Carrington	1,911	6.0
Majority			2,712
Turnout				51.1
	Conservative hold		Swing