Rhondda (Senedd constituency)
Coordinates: 51°38′38″N 3°25′37″W / 51.644°N 3.427°W
Rhondda | |
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Senedd county constituency for the Senedd | |
Current Senedd county constituency | |
Created | 1999 |
Party | Welsh Labour |
MS | Buffy Williams |
Preserved county | Mid Glamorgan South Glamorgan |
Rhondda is a constituency of the Senedd. It elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of eight constituencies in the South Wales Central electoral region, which elects 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 Rhondda Westminster constituency. It is entirely within the preserved county of Mid Glamorgan.
The other seven constituencies of the region are Cardiff Central, Cardiff North, Cardiff South and Penarth, Cardiff West, Cynon Valley, Pontypridd and Vale of Glamorgan.
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 | |
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1999 | Geraint Davies | Plaid Cymru | |
2003 | Leighton Andrews | Labour | |
2016 | Leanne Wood | Plaid Cymru | |
2021 | Buffy Williams | Labour |
Elections[]
Elections in the 2020s[]
Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Labour | Elizabeth Williams | 12,832 | 54.7 | 18.8 | 11,949 | 51.1 | 18.7 | |
Plaid Cymru | Leanne Wood[a] | 7,335 | 31.3 | 19.3 | 6,495 | 27.8 | 20.4 | |
Conservative | Tom Parkhill | 1,490 | 6.4 | 4.2 | 2,058 | 8.8 | 6.3 | |
Propel | Jeff Gregory | 525 | 2.2 | New | 288 | 1.2 | New | |
Abolish the Welsh Assembly | Ian McLean | 430 | 1.8 | New | 648 | 2.8 | 0.3 | |
Reform UK | Steve Bayliss | 355 | 1.5 | New | 306 | 1.3 | New | |
Freedom Alliance | Steven Phillips | 291 | 1.2 | New | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Jackie Charlton | 200 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 206 | 0.9 | 0.3 | |
Green | 575 | 2.5 | 1.0 | |||||
UKIP | 343 | 1.5 | 8.4 | |||||
No More Lockdowns | 159 | 0.7 | New | |||||
Gwlad | 136 | 0.6 | New | |||||
Communist | 74 | 0.3 | ||||||
TUSC | 57 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |||||
Workers Party | 49 | 0.2 | New | |||||
Independent | Alan Coulthard | 45 | 0.2 | New | ||||
Majority | 5,497 | 23.4 | N/A | |||||
Turnout | 23,458 | |||||||
Labour gain from Plaid Cymru | Swing | 19.1 | ||||||
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Elections in the 2010s[]
Party | Candidate | Constituency[2] | Regional[3] | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Plaid Cymru | Leanne Wood | 11,891 | 50.6 | 21.1 | 11,354 | 48.2 | 23.7 | |
Labour | Leighton Andrews | 8,432 | 35.9 | 27.3 | 7,623 | 32.4 | 22.2 | |
UKIP | Stephen Clee | 2,203 | 9.4 | New | 2,337 | 9.9 | ??? | |
Conservative | Maria Hill | 528 | 2.2 | 2.6 | 582 | 2.5 | 1.8 | |
Green | Pat Matthews | 259 | 1.1 | New | 346 | 1.5 | ??? | |
Liberal Democrats | Rhys Taylor | 173 | 0.7 | 1.8 | 278 | 1.2 | 1.0 | |
Abolish the Welsh Assembly | 591 | 2.5 | New | |||||
Women's Equality | 105 | 0.4 | New | |||||
Monster Raving Loony | 114 | 0.5 | ||||||
Independent (Jonathan Bishop)[4] | 45 | 0.2 | New | |||||
TUSC | 82 | 0.3 | ||||||
Communist | 62 | 0.3 | ||||||
Freedom to Choose / Vapers in Power | 40 | 0.2 | New | |||||
Majority | 3,459 | 14.7 | n/a | |||||
Turnout | 23,486 | 21.0 | 9.2 | |||||
Plaid Cymru gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Constituency [5] | Regional[6] | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Labour | Leighton Andrews | 12,650 | 63.2 | 5.0 | 10,919 | 54.6 | ||
Plaid Cymru | Sara Evans-Fear | 5,911 | 29.5 | 0.5 | 4,906 | 24.5 | ||
Conservative | James Jeffreys | 969 | 4.8 | 0.3 | 861 | 4.3 | ||
Liberal Democrats | George Summers | 497 | 2.5 | 4.0 | 436 | 2.2 | ||
Others | 2,874 | 14.4 | ||||||
Majority | 6,739 | 33.7 | 5.6 | |||||
Turnout | 20,027 | 38.0 | 4.1 | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | 2.8 |
Elections in the 2000s[]
Party | Candidate | Constituency [7] | Regional[8] | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Labour | Leighton Andrews | 12,875 | 58.2 | 3.4 | 11,692 | 52.9 | 7.1 | |
Plaid Cymru | Jill Evans | 6,660 | 30.1 | 3.1 | 5,576 | 25.5 | 2.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Karen Roberts | 1,441 | 6.5 | 3.5 | 964 | 4.4 | 0.1 | |
Conservative | Howard Parsons | 1,131 | 5.1 | 2.9 | 1,006 | 4.6 | 1.0 | |
BNP | 922 | 4.2 | New | |||||
UKIP | 584 | 2.6 | 0.1 | |||||
Green | 473 | 2.1 | 0.3 | |||||
Socialist Labour | 307 | 1.4 | 1.7 | |||||
Welsh Christian | 190 | 0.9 | New | |||||
Communist | 167 | 0.8 | 0.4 | |||||
Socialist Alternative | 77 | 0.3 | New | |||||
CPA | 76 | 0.3 | New | |||||
Respect | 59 | 0.3 | New | |||||
Socialist Equality | 11 | 0.0 | New | |||||
Majority | 6,215 | 28.1 | -6.5 | |||||
Turnout | 22,107 | 42.1 | -3.5 | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | -3.3 |
Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional[9] | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Labour | Leighton Andrews | 14,170 | 61.6 | +21.1 | 13,746 | 60.0 | ||
Plaid Cymru | Geraint Rhys Davies | 6,216 | 27.0 | -21.7 | 5,204 | 22.7 | ||
Independent | Jeffrey Gregory | 909 | 4.0 | New | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Veronica Watkins | 680 | 3.0 | -1.7 | 1,023 | 4.5 | ||
UKIP | Kunnathur T. Rajan | 524 | 2.3 | New | 568 | 2.5 | ||
Conservative | Paul James Williams | 504 | 2.2 | -0.6 | 813 | 3.6 | ||
Socialist Labour | 710 | 3.1 | ||||||
Green | 407 | 1.8 | ||||||
Cymru Annibynnol | 164 | 0.7 | ||||||
Vote No 2 Stop the War | 65 | 0.3 | ||||||
New Millennium Bean Partyn | 88 | 0.4 | ||||||
Communist | 91 | 0.4 | ||||||
ProLife Alliance | 19 | 0.1 | ||||||
Majority | 7,954 | 34.6 | N/A | |||||
Turnout | 23,003 | 45.6 | -4.6 | |||||
Labour gain from Plaid Cymru | Swing | +21.4 |
Elections in the 1990s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Plaid Cymru | Geraint Rhys Davies | 13,558 | 48.7 | ||
Labour | Wayne David | 11,273 | 40.5 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Meurig Williams | 1,303 | 4.7 | ||
Independent | Glyndwr Summers | 913 | 3.3 | ||
Conservative | Peter Hobbins | 774 | 2.8 | ||
Majority | 2,285 | 8.2 | |||
Turnout | 27,821 | 50.2 | |||
Plaid Cymru win (new seat) |
References[]
- ^ [1] Rhondda Statement of Persons Nominated
- ^ "Wales elections > Rhondda". BBC News. 6 May 2011. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
- ^ [2] National Assembly – 5 May 2016 - South Wales Central
- ^ "Jonathan Bishop". Who Can I vote for?. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- ^ "Wales elections > Rhondda". BBC News. 6 May 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
- ^ "National Assembly for Wales Elections: 2011 (Pages 23 & 24)" (PDF). House of Commons. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- ^ Election results – 2007 Archived 9 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly for Wales
- ^ "2007 Assembly Election Results (updated) July 2007(Pages 78)" (PDF). National Assembly for Wales. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
- ^ The National Assembly for Wales elections 2003. The Electoral Commission. November 2003. p. 110-115. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
- Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament constituencies in the South Wales Central electoral region
- Politics of Rhondda Cynon Taf
- 1999 establishments in Wales
- Constituencies established in 1999