Arfon (Senedd Cymru constituency)

Arfon is a Senedd constituency created for the former Assembly's 2007 election. It elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of nine constituencies in the North Wales electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to nine constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

Arfon
Senedd Cymru county constituency
Arfon shown within the North Wales electoral region and the region shown within Wales
Current Senedd Cymru county constituency
Created	2007
Party	Plaid Cymru
MS	Siân Gwenllian
Preserved county	Gwynedd
Created from	Caernarfon and Conwy

Boundaries

The constituency has the boundaries of the Arfon Westminster constituency, entirely within the preserved county of Gwynedd, which will come into use, also, for the 2010 United Kingdom general election. The new constituency merged areas currently within the Caernarfon constituency and the Conwy constituency. The Caernarfon constituency was entirely within the preserved county of Gwynedd. The Conwy constituency was partly a Gwynedd constituency and partly within the preserved county of Clwyd.

The North Wales region was created for the first Assembly election, in 1999. For the 2007 election, however, it had new boundaries. It includes the constituencies of Aberconwy, Alyn and Deeside, Arfon, Clwyd South, Clwyd West, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn.

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	Portrait
	2007	constituency created; see Caernarfon and Conwy
		Alun Ffred Jones	Plaid Cymru
	2016	Siân Gwenllian

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Welsh Assembly Election 2016: Arfon[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Siân Gwenllian	10,962	54.8	-1.9
	Labour	Sion Jones	6,800	34.0	+7.8
	Conservative	Martin Peet	1,655	8.3	-4.2
	Liberal Democrats	Sara Lloyd Williams	577	2.9	-1.6
Majority			4,162	20.8	-9.7
Turnout			19,994	50.9	+7.5
	Plaid Cymru hold		Swing	-4.9

Welsh Assembly Election 2011: Arfon[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Alun Ffred Jones	10,024	56.7	+4.3
	Labour	Christina Rees	4,630	26.2	-0.6
	Conservative	Aled Davies	2,209	12.5	+3.0
	Liberal Democrats	Rhys Jones	801	4.5	-2.8
Majority			5,394	30.5	+4.9
Turnout			17,664	43.4	-5.7
	Plaid Cymru hold		Swing	+2.4

Elections in the 2000s

Welsh Assembly Election 2007: Arfon

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Alun Ffred Jones	10,260	52.4	N/A
	Labour	Martin Eaglestone	5,242	26.8	N/A
	Conservative	Gerry Frobisher	1,858	9.5	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Mel ab Owain	1,424	7.3	N/A
	UKIP	Elwyn Williams	789	4.0	N/A
Majority			5,018	25.6	N/A
Turnout			19,573	49.1	N/A
	Plaid Cymru win (new seat)

References

1. "Wales elections > Arfon". BBC News. 6 May 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
2. "Wales elections > Arfon". BBC News. 6 May 2011. Retrieved 8 March 2011.