Alyn and Deeside (Assembly constituency)

Not to be confused with Alyn and Deeside (UK Parliament constituency).

Alyn and Deeside
National Assembly for Wales county constituency
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Alyn and Deeside shown within the North Wales electoral region and the region shown within Wales
Current National Assembly for Wales county constituency
Created	1999
Party	Labour
AM	Carl Sargeant
Preserved county	Clwyd

Alyn and Deeside is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member 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.

Boundaries

The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Alyn and Deeside Westminster constituency. It is entirely within the preserved county of Clwyd. For the 2007 Assembly election, there were minor changes to the constituency's boundaries. For Westminster purposes, the same boundary changes will become effective at the 2010 United Kingdom general election.

As created in 1999, the North Wales region includes the constituencies of Alyn and Deeside, Caernarfon, Clwyd West, Clwyd South, Conwy, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn (Anglesey). From the 2007 election the region includes Aberconwy, Alyn and Deeside, Arfon, Clwyd South, Clwyd West, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn (Anglesey).

Voting

In general elections for the National Assembly for Wales, each voter has two votes. The first vote may be used to vote for a candidate to become the Assembly Member 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

The AM since 2003 is Carl Sergeant, the Social Justice and Local Government Minister.

Election		Member	Party
	1999	Tom Middlehurst	Labour
	2003	Carl Sargeant	Labour

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Welsh Assembly Election 2016: Alyn and Deeside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Carl Sargeant
	Green	Martin Bennewith
Majority
Turnout

Welsh Assembly Election 2011: Alyn and Deeside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Carl Sargeant	11,978	52.6	+13.8
	Conservative	John Bell	6,397	28.1	+5.2
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Williams	1,725	7.6	−2.3
	Plaid Cymru	Shane Brennan	1,710	7.5	+0.9
	BNP	Michael Joseph Whitby	959	4.2	N/A
Majority			5,581	24.5	+8.6
Turnout			22,769	37	+1.5
	Labour hold		Swing	+4.3

Elections in the 2000s

Welsh Assembly Election 2007: Alyn and Deeside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Carl Sargeant	8,196	38.9	−7.8
	Conservative	Will Gallagher	4,834	22.9	−0.6
	Independent	Dennis Hutchinson	3,241	15.4	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Paul J. Brighton	2,091	9.9	−6.8
	Plaid Cymru	Dafydd M. Passe	1,398	6.6	−1.1
	UKIP	William Crawford	1,335	6.3	+0.8
Majority			3,362	15.9	-7.4
Turnout			21,095	35.5	+10.6
	Labour hold		Swing	−3.6

Welsh Assembly Election 2003: Alyn and Deeside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Carl Sargeant	7,036	46.7	−4.6
	Conservative	Matthew G. Wright	3,533	23.5	+5.5
	Liberal Democrats	Paul J. Brighton	2,509	16.7	+6.8
	Plaid Cymru	Richard S. Coombs	1,160	7.7	−4.4
	UKIP	William Crawford	826	5.5	N/A
Majority			3,503	23.3	−10.2
Turnout			15,064	24.9	−7.2
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

Welsh Assembly Election 1999: Alyn and Deeside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Tom Middlehurst	9,772	51.4	N/A
	Conservative	Neil Alexander Formstone	3,413	17.9	N/A
	Plaid Cymru	Mrs. Ann Owen	2,304	12.1	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Jeff John Clarke	1,879	9.9	N/A
	Independent	John Maxwell Cooksey	1,333	7.0	N/A
	Communist	Glyn Davies	329	1.7	N/A
Majority			6,359	33.5	N/A
Turnout			19,030	32.1	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

See also

• North Wales (National Assembly for Wales electoral region)
• National Assembly for Wales constituencies and electoral regions