Swansea East (Senedd constituency)

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

Coordinates: 51°39′01″N 3°55′10″W / 51.65028°N 3.91944°W / 51.65028; -3.91944

Swansea East
Dwyrain Abertawe
Senedd borough constituency
for the Senedd
SwanseaEast2007Constituency.svg
Swansea East shown as one of the 40
Senedd constituencies
Current Senedd borough constituency
Created1999
PartyLabour
MSMike Hedges
Electoral regionSouth Wales West
Preserved countyWest Glamorgan

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.

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[]

Election Member Party Portrait
1999 Val Feld Labour Party Val Feld.png
2001 Val Lloyd Labour Party Val Lloyd.jpg
2011 Mike Hedges Labour Party Mike Hedges AM (28170821805).jpg

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 2020s[]

2021 Senedd election: Swansea East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Mike Hedges 12,950 60.1 Increase8.0
Plaid Cymru Rhiannon Barrar 3,250 15.1 Increase1.8
Conservative Cameron Brennan 2,497 13.7 Increase5.3
Liberal Democrats Sam Bennett 1,055 4.9 Decrease2.7
UKIP Dan Morgan 567 2.6 Decrease13.3
Abolish the Welsh Assembly Cameron Edwards 484 2.2 New
Reform UK Darren Rees 295 1.4 New
Majority 9,700 45.0 Increase8.8
Turnout 21,098 34.6 Decrease1.1
Labour hold Swing Decrease0.30

Elections in the 2010s[]

Welsh Assembly Election 2016: Swansea East[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Mike Hedges 10,726 52.1 Decrease6.3
UKIP Clifford Johnson 3,274 15.9 New
Plaid Cymru Dic Jones 2,744 13.3 Increase0.9
Conservative Sadie Vidal 1,729 8.4 Decrease6.2
Liberal Democrats Charlene Webster 1,574 7.6 Decrease1.2
Green Tony Young 529 2.6 New
Majority 7,452 36.2 Decrease7.6
Turnout 20,576 35.7 Increase4.5
Labour hold Swing Decrease11.1
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 New
Majority 8,281 43.8 +19.8
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 New
Independent Ray Welsby 1,177 5.7 New
Independent Gary D. Evans 460 2.2 New
Majority 4,961 24.0 +1.0
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 New
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 −8.2
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 New
Green Martyn Shrewsbury 206 1.6 New
Socialist Alliance Alan Thomson 173 1.3 New
New Millennium Bean Party Captain Beany 37 0.3 New
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 18.2 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[permanent dead link]
  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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