Swansea East (Senedd Cymru constituency)

Swansea East (Welsh: Dwyrain Abertawe) is a constituency of the Senedd. It elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. It is one of seven constituencies in the South Wales West electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to seven constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

Not to be confused with Swansea East (UK Parliament constituency).

Swansea East
Senedd Cymru borough constituency
Swansea East shown as one of the 40
Senedd constituencies
Current Senedd Cymru borough constituency
Created1999
PartyLabour
MSMike Hedges
Electoral regionSouth Wales West
Preserved countyWest Glamorgan

Boundaries

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

The other six constituencies of the region are Aberavon, Bridgend, Gower, Neath, Ogmore and Swansea West.

Assembly members and Members of the Senedd
ElectionMemberPartyPortrait
1999 Val Feld Labour Party
2001 Val Lloyd Labour Party
2011 Mike Hedges Labour Party

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.

Election results

Elections in the 2010s
Welsh Assembly Election 2016: Swansea East[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Mike Hedges 10,726 52.1 -6.2
UKIP Clifford Johnson 3,274 15.9 +15.9
Plaid Cymru Dic Jones 2,744 13.3 +0.9
Conservative Sadie Vidal 1,729 8.4 -6.2
Liberal Democrats Charlene Webster 1,574 7.6 -1.2
Green Tony Young 529 2.6 +2.6
Majority 7,452 36.2 -7.6
Turnout 35.7 +4.5
Labour hold Swing -11.1
Welsh Assembly Election 2011: Swansea East[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Mike Hedges[3] 11,035 58.4 +16.9
Conservative Dan Boucher[4] 2,754 14.6 +4.8
Plaid Cymru Dic Jones 2,346 12.4 −3.1
Liberal Democrats Robert Samuel 1,673 8.8 −8.7
BNP Joanne Shannon 1,102 5.8 N/A
Majority 8,281 43.8 +19.9
Turnout 18,910 31.2 −3.8
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 2000s
Welsh Assembly Election 2007: Swansea East[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Val Lloyd[6] 8,590 41.5 −5.7
Liberal Democrats Helen Ceri Clarke 3,629 17.5 −6.8
Plaid Cymru Danny Bowles 3,218 15.5 +2.7
Conservative Bob T. Dowdle 2,025 9.8 +3.3
Independent Alan Robinson 1,618 7.8 N/A
Independent Ray Welsby 1,177 5.7 N/A
Independent Gary D. Evans 460 2.2 N/A
Majority 4,961 23.9 +0.9
Turnout 20,717 35.0 +4.6
Labour hold Swing +0.6
Welsh Assembly Election 2003: Swansea East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Val Lloyd 8,221 47.2 +1.6
Liberal Democrats Peter Malcolm Black 4,224 24.3 +5.3
Plaid Cymru David R. Evans 2,223 12.8 −14.6
UKIP Alan Robinson 1,474 8.5 N/A
Conservative Peter A. Morris 1,135 6.5 −1.5
Socialist Alliance Alan Thomson 133 0.8 N/A
Majority 3,997 23.0 +5.0
Turnout 17,410 30.4 −5.6
Labour hold Swing −1.8

The first by-election to the Welsh National Assembly was held on 27 September 2001 following the death of the sitting Labour Party AM, Val Feld.

2001 Swansea East by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Val Lloyd 7,484 58.1 +12.5
Plaid Cymru John G. Ball 2,465 19.2 −8.3
Liberal Democrats Rob Speht 1,592 12.4 −6.6
Conservative Gerald Rowbottom 675 5.2 −2.8
UKIP Tim C. Jenkins 243 1.9 N/A
Green Martyn Shrewsbury 206 1.6 N/A
Socialist Alliance Alan Thomson 173 1.3 N/A
New Millennium Bean Party Captain Beany 37 0.3 N/A
Majority 5,019 38.9 +20.7
Turnout 12,875 22.6 −13.5
Labour hold Swing −10.0

Elections in the 1990s
Welsh Assembly Election 1999: Swansea East[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Val Feld 9,495 45.6 N/A
Plaid Cymru John G. Ball 5,714 27.4 N/A
Liberal Democrats Peter Malcolm Black 3,963 19.0 N/A
Conservative William Hughes 1,663 8.0 N/A
Majority 3,781 18.5 N/A
Turnout 20,835 36.1 N/A
Labour win (new seat)

References
  1. "Wales elections > Swansea East". BBC News. 6 May 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  2. "Wales elections > Swansea East". BBC News. 6 May 2011. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  3. http://welshlabour.org.uk/mike-hedges%5B%5D
  4. Dan Boucher, Swansea Conservatives, Swansea Conservatives
  5. Election results – 2007 Archived 9 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly for Wales
  6. Val Lloyd Archived 13 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  7. Swansea East, Political Science Resources
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