South Wales East (Senedd electoral region)

**South Wales East**
*Dwyrain De Cymru*
Senedd electoral region

Created 1999
Current representation
Labour	7 MSs
Conservative	3 MSs
Plaid Cymru	2 MSs
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)

South Wales East (Welsh: Dwyrain De Cymru) 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.

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

Map of current 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 iron 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	Peter Fox 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 TC Davies (Con)	John Griffiths (Lab)	Rosemary Butler (Lab)	Lynne Neagle (Lab)
2nd	2003		Jeffrey Cuthbert (Lab)	Irene James (Lab)
	2005^[a]
	2006	Trish Law (PV)
3rd	2007	Trish Law (PV)				Nick Ramsay (Con)
4th	2011	Alun Davies (Lab)		Gwyn Price (Lab)
5th	2016		Hefin David (Lab)	Rhianon Passmore (Lab)	Dawn Bowden (Lab)			Jayne Bryant (Lab)
6th	2021		Hefin David (Lab)	Rhianon Passmore (Lab)	Dawn Bowden (Lab)	Peter Fox (Con)		Jayne Bryant (Lab)

Regional list AMs and MSs

N.B. This table is for presentation purposes only

Term	Election
1st	1999	Phil Williams (PC)	William Graham (Con)	Jocelyn Davies (PC)	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) then Abolish	David Rowlands (UKIP) BREX), then Indi^[b]	Steffan Lewis (PC)
	2017^[c]				Steffan Lewis (PC)
	2019^[d]^[e]				Delyth Jewell^[2] (PC)
	2020^[3]^[4]	Laura Anne Jones (Con)
6th	2021	Laura Anne Jones (Con)	Natasha Asghar (Con)	Peredur Owen Griffiths (PC)

2021 Senedd election

2021 Senedd election: South Wales East
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	Labour	Helen Cunningham, Peter Jones, Mary Brocklesby, Majid Rahman	85,988	41.4	3.1
	Conservative	Laura Anne Jones, Natasha Asghar, Matthew Evans, Nick Evans, Gavin Chambers, Edward Dawson, Donna Gavin, Gareth Hughes	52,323	25.2	8.0
	Plaid Cymru	Delyth Jewell, Peredur Owen Griffiths, Lindsay Whittle, Rhys Mills, Jonathan lark, Ian Gwynne, Daniel Llewelyn	30,530	14.7	0.6
	Abolish	Mark Reckless, Richard Taylor, Stephen Jones, Michael Ford, Robert Steed, Hugh Hughes	9,995	4.8	0.7
	Green	Amelia Womack, Ian Chandler, Lauren James, Stephen Priestnall	9,950	4.8	2.3
	Liberal Democrats	Jo Watkins, Veronica German, Oliver Townsend, Jeremy Becker	7,045	3.4	0.1
	UKIP	Neil Hamilton, Benjamin Walker, Thomas Harrison, Robert James	4,101	2.0	15.8
	Reform UK	James Wells, Kirsty Walmsley, David Rowlands, Colin Jones, Robert Beavis	2,756	1.3	1.3
	Gwlad	Calen Jones, Laurence Williams, Ryan Williams, Terry Beverton	1,841	0.9	0.9
	No More Lockdowns	Gruff Meredith, Mattie Ginsburg	1,496	0.7	0.7
	Propel	Kieran Gething, Anthony Nash, Celia Jones, Kristopher Ashley	924	0.4	0.4
	Communist	Robert Griffiths, Bob Davenport, Glenn Eynon, Irene Green	606	0.3	0.0
	TUSC	Mariam Kamish, Cammilla Mngaza, Melanie Benedict, Dave Reid	362	0.2	0.1

2021 Senedd election additional members

	Constituency seats	List votes (vote %)^[5]	D'Hondt entitlement	Additional members elected	Total members elected	Deviation from D'Hondt entitlement
Labour	7	85,988 (41.05%)	6	0	7	+1
Conservative	1	52,323 (24.98%)	4	2	3	-1
Plaid Cymru	0	30,530 (14.57%)	2	2	2	0
Abolish	0	9,995 (4.77%)	0	0	0	0
Green	0	9,950 (4.75%)	0	0	0	0
Liberal Democrats	0	7,045 (3.36%)	0	0	0	0
UKIP	0	4,101 (1.96%)	0	0	0	0
Reform UK	0	2,756 (1.32%)	0	0	0	0
Gwlad	0	1,841 (0.88%)	0	0	0	0
No More Lockdowns	0	1,496 (0.71%)	0	0	0	0
Propel	0	924 (0.44%)	0	0	0	0
Communist	0	606 (0.29%)	0	0	0	0
TUSC	0	362 (0.17%)	0	0	0	0

Regional MSs elected 2021^[5]

Party		Name
	Plaid Cymru	Delyth Jewell
	Conservative	Laura Anne Jones
	Conservative	Natasha Asghar
	Plaid Cymru	Peredur Owen Griffiths

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	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^[6]

	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
UKIP	0	8,725 (4.6%)	0	0	0	0
Green	0	5,414 (2.8%)	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, Mohammad Asghar, Plaid Cymru's list member for South Wales East, defected to the Conservative Party. This gave Plaid one AM, and the Conservatives two.^[7]

2003 Welsh Assembly additional members^[8]

	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^[8]

	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.
^ Still a member of the Brexit Party, but part of the Senedd Group 'Independent Group for Reform'
^ 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.
^ Steffan Lewis died on 11 January 2019 and was replaced five days later by Delyth Jewell, the next Plaid Cymru candidate on the list.^[1]
^ In 2019, Reckless left the Conservative Group to become Independent.

References

^ "Welsh AM Steffan Lewis dies aged 34". BBC News. 11 January 2019. Archived from the original on 17 June 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
^ "New AM following death of Steffan Lewis". BBC News. 16 January 2019. Archived from the original on 10 May 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
^ "Welsh Conservative MS Mohammad Asghar has died aged 74". Western Mail. 16 June 2020. Archived from the original on 16 June 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
^ "Laura Anne Jones confirmed as Member of the Senedd for South Wales East". Welsh Parliament. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Senedd Cymru Election Result - South Wales East Region" (PDF). Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
^ "BBC NEWS | Politics | Vote 2007". news.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 27 July 2007.
^ "Plaid AM defects to Conservatives". BBC News. 8 December 2009. Archived from the original on 2 May 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Welsh National Assembly regional constituency: South Wales East [Archive]". 7 August 2011. Archived from the original on 7 August 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2020.

[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.

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

[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.

[5] Steffan Lewis died on 11 January 2019 and was replaced five days later by Delyth Jewell, the next Plaid Cymru candidate on the list.^[1]

[6] In 2019, Reckless left the Conservative Group to become Independent.

[4] "Welsh AM Steffan Lewis dies aged 34". BBC News. 11 January 2019. Archived from the original on 17 June 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2020.

[7] "New AM following death of Steffan Lewis". BBC News. 16 January 2019. Archived from the original on 10 May 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2020.

[8] "Welsh Conservative MS Mohammad Asghar has died aged 74". Western Mail. 16 June 2020. Archived from the original on 16 June 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2020.

[9] "Laura Anne Jones confirmed as Member of the Senedd for South Wales East". Welsh Parliament. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2020.

[:0-10] "Senedd Cymru Election Result - South Wales East Region" (PDF). Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2021.

[11] "BBC NEWS | Politics | Vote 2007". news.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 27 July 2007.

[12] "Plaid AM defects to Conservatives". BBC News. 8 December 2009. Archived from the original on 2 May 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2020.

[politicsresources-13] "Welsh National Assembly regional constituency: South Wales East [Archive]". 7 August 2011. Archived from the original on 7 August 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2020.

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