Caernarfon (Assembly constituency)

Caernarfon
Former Former county constituency
for the Welsh Assembly
Caernarfon shown within the North Wales electoral region and the region shown within Wales
Former Former county constituency
Created1999
Abolished2007
Preserved countyGwynedd
Created fromCaernarfon
Replaced byArfon and Dwyfor Meirionnydd
Not to be confused with Caernarfon (UK Parliament constituency).

Caernarfon was a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales from 1999 to 2007. It was one of nine constituencies in the North Wales electoral region until the abolition of the seat. The constituency elected one Assembly Member by the first past the post method, while the North Wales region elected four additional members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the area as a whole.[1]

Boundaries

The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Caernarfon Westminster constituency. It was entirely within the preserved county of Gwynedd.

The other eight constituencies of the region were Alyn and Deeside, Clwyd West, Clwyd South, Conwy, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn.

The constituency was abolished at the 2007 election. Part of the constituency then joined the new Arfon constituency, and part the new Dwyfor Meirionnydd constituency, both constituencies entirely within the preserved county of Gwynedd. The Arfon constituency is within the North Wales electoral region. The Dwyfor Meirionnydd constituency is within the Mid and West Wales region.

Assembly members

Election Member Party
1999 Dafydd Wigley Plaid Cymru
2003 Alun Ffred Jones
2007 constituency abolished; see Arfon and Dwyfor Meirionnydd

Elections

Welsh Assembly Election 2003: Caernarfon
Party Candidate Constituency Regional[2]
Votes % ±% Votes % ±%
Plaid Cymru Alun Ffred Jones 11,675 55.0 −10.8 10,335 48.6 -10.1
Labour Martin Eaglestone 5,770 27.2 +4.5 5,127 24.1 +0.7
Conservative Goronwy Edwards 2,402 11.3 +2.6 2,459 11.6 +1.2
Liberal Democrats Stephen William Churchman 1,392 6.6 +3.8 1,238 5.8 +1.4
Cymru Annibynnol 760 3.6 New
Green 535 2.5 Unknown
UKIP 433 2.0 New
John Marek Independent Party 299 1.4 New
Communist 54 0.3 Unknown
ProLife Alliance 33 0.2 New
Majority 5,905 27.8 −15.3
Turnout 21,239 45.0 −15.7
Plaid Cymru hold Swing −7.7
Welsh Assembly Election 1999: Caernarfon[3]
Party Candidate Constituency List
Votes % ±% Votes % ±%
Plaid Cymru Dafydd Wigley 18,748 65.8 N/A 16,661 58.7
Labour Tom Jones 6,475 22.7 N/A 6,648 23.4
Conservative Bronwen Naish 2,464 8.7 N/A 2,958 10.4
Liberal Democrats David Shankland 791 2.8 N/A 1,237 4.4
Green Unknown Unknown
Natural Law Unknown Unknown
Communist Unknown Unknown
Rhuddlan Debt Protest Campaign Unknown Unknown
Socialist Alliance Unknown Unknown
Collective vote of the above list parties 880 3.1
Majority 12,273 43.1 N/A
Turnout 28,748 60.5 N/A
Plaid Cymru win (new seat)

2003 Electorate: 47,173
Regional ballots rejected: 259

See also

References

  1. ^ "How the Assembly is elected". National Assembly for Wales. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
  2. ^ "2007 Assembly Election Results (updated) July 2007(Pages 69, 70 and 78)" (PDF). National Assembly for Wales. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  3. ^ "Election results for Caernarfon – 1999". National Assembly for Wales. Retrieved 28 January 2020.

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