Meirionnydd Nant Conwy (National Assembly for Wales constituency)

Coordinates: 52°57′22″N 3°34′08″W / 52.956°N 3.569°W / 52.956; -3.569

Not to be confused with Meirionnydd Nant Conwy (UK Parliament constituency).

Meirionnydd Nant Conwy

Welsh Assembly county constituency
Meirionnydd Nant Conwy shown as one of the 40 Welsh Assembly constituencies
Created:	1999
Electoral region:	Mid and West Wales
AM 1999-2007:	Dafydd Elis-Thomas
Party:	Plaid Cymru (presiding officer)
Preserved counties:	Clwyd and Gwynedd

Meirionnydd Nant Conwy was a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elected one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it was one of eight constituencies in the Mid and West Wales electoral region, which elected four additional members, in addition to eight constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

Boundaries

The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Meirionnydd Nant Conwy Westminster constituency. It was partly within the preserved county of Clwyd and partly within the preserved county of Gwynedd. The constituency was abolished following boundary changes for the 2007 Assembly elections.

The other seven constituencies of the region were Brecon and Radnorshire, Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion, Llanelli, Montgomeryshire and Preseli Pembrokeshire.

Voting

In 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.

Elections

Assembly Election 2003: Meirionnydd Nant Conwy
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Dafydd Elis-Thomas	8,717	57.4	−6.4
	Labour	Edwin S. Woodward	2,891	19.0	+1.6
	Conservative	Lisa Francis	2,485	16.4	+4.9
	Liberal Democrats	Kenneth A. Harris	1,100	7.2	−0.1
Majority			5,826	38.3
Turnout			15,193	45.0
	Plaid Cymru hold		Swing	-4.0

Assembly Election 1999: Meirionnydd Nant Conwy
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Dafydd Elis-Thomas	12,034	63.8
	Labour	Denise Idris Jones	3,292	17.4
	Conservative	Owen John Williams	2,170	11.5
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Worley	1,378	7.3
Majority			8,742	46.3
Turnout			18,874	57.3
	Plaid Cymru win (new seat)