South Wales East (Senedd Cymru electoral region)

South Wales East is an electoral region of the Senedd, 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.

**South Wales East**
Senedd electoral region

Created 1999
Current representation
Labour	7 MSs
Conservative	2 MSs
Brexit Party	2 MSs
Plaid Cymru	1 MS
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)

Each constituency elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post electoral system, and the region as a whole elects four additional or top-up Members of the Senedd, 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 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

Assembly members and Members of the Senedd

Constituency AMs and MSs

Term	Election
1st	1999	Peter Law (Lab) (later Ind)	Ron Davies (Lab)	Brian Hancock (PC)	Huw Lewis (Lab)	David T C Davies (Con)	John Griffiths (Lab)	Rosemary Butler (Lab)	Lynne Neagle (Lab)
2nd	2003		Jeffrey Cuthbert (Lab)	Irene James (Lab)
	2005[1]
	2006	Trish Law (PV)
3rd	2007	Trish Law (PV)				Nick Ramsay (Con)
4th	2011	Alun Davies (Lab)		Gwyn Price (Lab)
5th	2016	Alun Davies (Lab)	Hefin David (Lab)	Rhianon Passmore (Lab)	Dawn Bowden (Lab)			Jayne Bryant (Lab)

Regional list AMs and MSs

N.B. This table is for presentation purposes only

Term	Election
1st	1999	Phil Williams (PC)	Jocelyn Davies (PC)	William Graham (Con)	Mike German (LD)
2nd	2003	Laura Anne Jones (Con)
3rd	2007	Mohammad Asghar (PC) (later Con)
	2009
	2010				Veronica German (LD)
4th	2011				Lindsay Whittle (PC)
5th	2016		Mark Reckless (UKIP) (later Con, Ind, BREX) currently Abolish	David Rowlands UKIP BREX), now Indi[note 1]	Steffan Lewis (PC)
	2017[2]				Steffan Lewis (PC)
	2019[3][4]				Delyth Jewell[5] (PC)
	2020[6][7]	Laura Anne Jones(Con)			Delyth Jewell[5] (PC)

Notes

Still a member of the Brexit Party, but part of the Senedd Group 'Independent Group for Reform'

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	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	Mohammad 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[8]

	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
CPA	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 two.[9]

2003 Welsh Assembly additional members[10]

	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[10]

	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

In 2005 Peter Law left the Labour Party in a row over candidate selection in Blaenau Gwent for that year's UK general election.
In 2017 Mark Reckless left UKIP and was admitted to the Conservative group in the Welsh Assembly, though not to the Conservative Party itself. For purposes of Assembly business, he was treated as a Conservative AM.
"Welsh AM Steffan Lewis dies aged 34". BBC News. 2019-01-11.
In 2019 Mark Reckless left the Conservative Group to become Independent.
"New AM following death of Steffan Lewis". BBC News. 2019-01-16.
"Welsh Conservative MS Mohammad Asghar has died aged 74". Western Mail. 16 June 2020.
"Laura Anne Jones confirmed as Member of the Senedd for South Wales East". Welsh Parliament. Retrieved 2020-07-02.
"BBC NEWS | Politics | Vote 2007". news.bbc.co.uk.
"Plaid AM defects to Conservatives". 2009-12-08.
"Welsh National Assembly regional constituency: South Wales East [Archive]". web.archive.org. 2011-08-07. Retrieved 2020-06-16.

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[2] Still a member of the Brexit Party, but part of the Senedd Group 'Independent Group for Reform'

[1] In 2005 Peter Law left the Labour Party in a row over candidate selection in Blaenau Gwent for that year's UK general election.

[3] In 2017 Mark Reckless left UKIP and was admitted to the Conservative group in the Welsh Assembly, though not to the Conservative Party itself. For purposes of Assembly business, he was treated as a Conservative AM.

[4] "Welsh AM Steffan Lewis dies aged 34". BBC News. 2019-01-11.

[5] In 2019 Mark Reckless left the Conservative Group to become Independent.

[6] "New AM following death of Steffan Lewis". BBC News. 2019-01-16.

[7] "Welsh Conservative MS Mohammad Asghar has died aged 74". Western Mail. 16 June 2020.

[8] "Laura Anne Jones confirmed as Member of the Senedd for South Wales East". Welsh Parliament. Retrieved 2020-07-02.

[9] "BBC NEWS | Politics | Vote 2007". news.bbc.co.uk.

[10] "Plaid AM defects to Conservatives". 2009-12-08.

[politicsresources-11] "Welsh National Assembly regional constituency: South Wales East [Archive]". web.archive.org. 2011-08-07. Retrieved 2020-06-16.

Electoral regions and constituencies of Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament
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