Caerphilly (Senedd constituency)
Caerphilly Caerffili | |
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Senedd county constituency for the Senedd | |
![]() Caerphilly shown as one of the 40 Senedd constituencies | |
Current Senedd county constituency | |
Created | 1999 |
Party | Labour |
MS | Hefin David |
Electoral region | South Wales East |
Caerphilly (Welsh: Caerffili) is a constituency of the Senedd. It elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. It is additionally 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.
Boundaries
<mapframe height="220" text="Map of current boundaries" width="300">{{Wikipedia:Map data/Caerphilly (Senedd constituency)}}</mapframe> The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Caerphilly Westminster constituency.
The other seven constituencies of the South Wales East electoral region are Blaenau Gwent, Islwyn, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Monmouth, Newport East, Newport West and Torfaen.
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 | |
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1999 | Ron Davies | Labour | |
2003 | Jeffrey Cuthbert | ||
2016 | Hefin David |
Results
Elections in the 2020s
Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Welsh Labour | Hefin David[a] | 13,289 | 46.0 | +10.7 | 11,230 | 38.7 | +4.0 | |
Plaid Cymru | Delyth Jewell | 8,211 | 28.4 | -1.1 | 8,277 | 28.5 | +2.6 | |
Welsh Conservatives | Steven Mayfield | 5,013 | 17.3 | +8.4 | 5,172 | 17.8 | +7.7 | |
Abolish | Stephen Jones | 1,119 | 3.9 | New | 1,134 | 3.9 | +0.8 | |
Green | 1,074 | 3.7 | +1.3 | |||||
Welsh Liberal Democrats | Steven Aicheler | 787 | 2.7 | +1.3 | 644 | 2.2 | +0.3 | |
Reform UK | Tim Price | 495 | 1.7 | New | 342 | 1.2 | New | |
UKIP | 505 | 1.7 | -18.8 | |||||
Gwlad | 180 | 0.6 | New | |||||
No More Lockdowns | 174 | 0.6 | New | |||||
Propel (political party) | 115 | 0.4 | New | |||||
Communist | 86 | 0.3 | ±0.0 | |||||
TUSC | 71 | 0.2 | -0.1 | |||||
Majority | 5,078 | 17.6 | +11.8 | |||||
Turnout | 28,914 | 44.31[2] | +1.0 | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | |||||||
Regional Ballot void votes: 145. Want of an Official Mark (0), Voting for more than ONE party or individual candidate (71), Writing or mark by which the Voter could be identified (4), Unmarked or Void for uncertainty (145)
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Constituency[3] | Regional[4] | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Welsh Labour | Hefin David | 9,584 | 35.3 | −13.7 | 9,416 | 34.7 | -9.3 | |
Plaid Cymru | Lindsay Whittle | 8,009 | 29.5 | −0.2 | 7,013 | 25.9 | -0.4 | |
UKIP | Sam Gould | 5,954 | 22.0 | New | 5,555 | 20.5 | +16.7 | |
Welsh Conservatives | Jane Pratt | 2,412 | 8.9 | −4.3 | 2,728 | 10.1 | -1.7 | |
Wales Green Party | Andrew Creak | 770 | 2.8 | New | 651 | 2.4 | +0.2 | |
Welsh Liberal Democrats | Aladdin Ayesh | 386 | 1.4 | -2.8 | 526 | 1.9 | -1.7 | |
Abolish | 830 | 3.1 | New | |||||
Monster Raving Loony | 177 | 0.7 | New | |||||
TUSC | 91 | 0.3 | New | |||||
Communist | 74 | 0.3 | ±0.0 | |||||
National Front | 50 | 0.2 | New | |||||
Majority | 1,575 | 5.8 | −13.5 | |||||
Turnout | 27,115 | 43.3 | +1.8 | |||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Constituency[5] | Regional[6] | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Welsh Labour | Jeffrey Cuthbert | 12,521 | 49.0 | +14.4 | 11,251 | 44.0 | +6.7 | |
Plaid Cymru | Ronald Davies | 7,597 | 29.7 | +3.9 | 6,717 | 26.3 | +2.2 | |
Welsh Conservatives | Owen Meredith | 3,368 | 13.2 | +1.9 | 3,016 | 11.8 | -0.3 | |
Welsh Liberal Democrats | Kay David | 1,062 | 4.2 | −1.9 | 917 | 3.6 | -2.3 | |
BNP | Anthony King | 1,022 | 4.0 | New | 1,042 | 4.1 | -1.0 | |
UKIP | 983 | 3.8 | -0.8 | |||||
Socialist Labour | 633 | 2.5 | +1.1 | |||||
Green | 551 | 2.2 | -0.6 | |||||
Welsh Christian Party | 335 | 1.3 | ±0.0 | |||||
Communist | 77 | 0.3 | -0.1 | |||||
English Democrats | 38 | 0.1 | -0.1 | |||||
Majority | 4,924 | 19.3 | +10.5 | |||||
Turnout | 25,570 | 41.5 | −0.6 | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | +5.2 |
Regional ballots rejected at the count: 143[7]
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional[8] | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Welsh Labour | Jeffrey Cuthbert | 9,026 | 34.6 | −10.8 | 9,707 | 37.3 | -9.8 | |
Plaid Cymru | Lindsay Whittle | 6,739 | 25.8 | −2.2 | 6,287 | 24.1 | +0.9 | |
Independent | Ronald Davies | 5,806 | 22.2 | New | ||||
Welsh Conservatives | Richard Foley | 2,954 | 11.3 | +1.2 | 3,149 | 12.1 | +0.7 | |
Welsh Liberal Democrats | Huw Price | 1,596 | 6.1 | +1.1 | 1,601 | 6.1 | -1.4 | |
BNP | 1,380 | 5.1 | +3.8 | |||||
UKIP | 1,201 | 4.6 | +1.2 | |||||
Independent - Colin Hobbs | 1,061 | 4.1 | New | |||||
Green | 736 | 2.8 | +0.4 | |||||
Socialist Labour | 356 | 1.4 | -0.8 | |||||
Welsh Christian Party | 347 | 1.3 | New | |||||
Communist | 95 | 0.4 | New | |||||
Christian Peoples Alliance | 66 | 0.3 | New | |||||
English Democrat | 52 | 0.2 | New | |||||
Majority | 2,287 | 8.8 | −10.8 | |||||
Turnout | 26,120 | 42.1 | +5.1 | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | −4.3 |
Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional[9] | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Welsh Labour | Jeffrey Cuthbert | 11,893 | 47.1 | +2.9 | 11,956 | 47.1 | +9.5 | |
Plaid Cymru | Lindsay Whittle | 6,919 | 27.4 | −6.8 | 5,893 | 23.2 | -13.6 | |
Welsh Conservatives | Laura Anne Jones | 2,570 | 10.2 | +2.4 | 2,895 | 11.4 | +2.5 | |
Welsh Liberal Democrats | Rob W. Roffe | 1,281 | 5.1 | −7.3 | 1,907 | 7.5 | -4.8 | |
Independent | Anne Blackman | 1,204 | 4.8 | New | ||||
Independent | Avril A. Dafydd-Lewis | 930 | 3.7 | New | ||||
UKIP | Brenda M. Vipass | 590 | 2.3 | New | 863 | 3.4 | New | |
Green | 613 | 2.4 | Unknown | |||||
Socialist Labour | 549 | 2.2 | Unknown | |||||
BNP | 326 | 1.3 | New | |||||
Cymru Annibynnol | 280 | 1.1 | New | |||||
ProLife Alliance | 96 | 0.4 | New | |||||
Majority | 4,974 | 19.7 | +9.7 | |||||
Turnout | 25,387 | 36.8 | −6.4 | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | +4.9 |
2003 Electorate: 68,152
Regional ballots rejected: 316
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Welsh Labour | Ron Davies | 12,602 | 44.2 | N/A | 10,721 | 37.6 | N/A | |
Plaid Cymru | Robert Gough | 9,741 | 34.2 | N/A | 10,508 | 36.8 | N/A | |
Welsh Liberal Democrats | Mike German | 3,543 | 12.4 | N/A | 3,496 | 12.3 | N/A | |
Conservative | Mary Taylor | 2,213 | 7.8 | N/A | 2,542 | 8.9 | N/A | |
Socialist Alliance | Timothy Richards | 412 | 1.5 | |||||
United Socialist | 202 | 0.7 | N/A | |||||
Others | 1,050 | 3.7 | N/A | |||||
Majority | 2,861 | 10.0 | ||||||
Turnout | 28,511 | 43.2 | ||||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Notes
- ^ Caerphilly Statement of Persons Nominated
- ^ "The Senedd Election Results Caerphilly Constituency". Caerphilly. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
- ^ "Wales elections > Caerphilly". BBC News. 6 May 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
- ^ "Results and turnout at the 2016 National Assembly for Wales election". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
- ^ "Wales elections > Caerphilly". BBC News. 6 May 2011. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
- ^ "Results and turnout at the 2011 National Assembly for Wales Election". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
- ^ "Results and turnout at the 2011 National Assembly for Wales election". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
- ^ "2007 Assembly Election Results (updated) July 2007(Page 78 of the PDF / Page 72 of booklet)" (PDF). National Assembly for Wales. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
- ^ The National Assembly for Wales elections 2003. The Electoral Commission. November 2003. pp. 110–115. Archived from the original on 3 June 2023. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
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