South Wales West (National Assembly for Wales electoral region)

South Wales West is an electoral region of the National Assembly for Wales, consisting of seven constituencies. The region elects 11 members, seven directly elected constituency members and four additional members. The electoral region was first used in 1999, when the Assembly for Wales was created.

Each constituency elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post electoral system, and the region as a whole elects four additional or top-up Assembly Members, 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

The region covers the whole of the preserved county of West Glamorgan, part of the preserved county of Mid Glamorgan and part of the preserved county of South Glamorgan. The rest of Mid Glamorgan is divided between the South Wales Central and South Wales East electoral regions. The rest of South Glamorgan is within the South Wales Central region.

Electoral region profile

The region is predominantly urban, taking in Wales' second largest city, Swansea, as well as working-class towns such as Neath and Port Talbot. However there are also rural regions, such as on the Gower peninsula. A higher proportion of the local populace are Welsh speakers than in the neighbouring region, South Wales Central.

Constituencies

The seven constituencies have the names and boundaries of constituencies of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster):

Constituency	2016 Members		Preserved counties
Aberavon		David Rees Labour	Entirely within West Glamorgan
Bridgend		Carwyn Jones Labour	Partly Mid Glamorgan, partly South Glamorgan
Gower		Rebecca Evans Labour	Entirely within West Glamorgan
Neath		Jeremy Miles Labour	Entirely within West Glamorgan
Ogmore		Huw Irranca-Davies Labour	Partly Mid Glamorgan, partly South Glamorgan
Swansea East		Mike Hedges Labour	Entirely within West Glamorgan
Swansea West		Julie James Labour	Entirely within West Glamorgan

Additional Assembly members

AMs for South Wales West, 1999 onwards
Election		1999 (1st Assembly)		2003 (2nd Assembly)		2007 (3rd Assembly)		2011 (4th Assembly)				2016 (5th Assembly)
AM Party		Alun Cairns Conservative						Suzy Davies Conservative
AM Party		Dai Lloyd Plaid Cymru						Byron Davies Conservative		Altaf Hussain Conservative		Dai Lloyd Plaid Cymru
AM Party		Janet Davies Plaid Cymru				Bethan Jenkins Plaid Cymru
AM Party		Peter Black Liberal Democrat										Caroline Jones UKIP

2011 Welsh Assembly election additional members

Party		Constituency Seats	List Votes (vote %)	D'Hondt Entitlement	Additional Members Elected	Total Members Elected	Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement
	Labour	7	71,766 (46.5%)	6	0	7	+1
	Conservative	0	27,457 (17.8%)	2	2	2	0
	Plaid Cymru	0	21,258 (13.8%)	2	1	1	−1
	Liberal Democrats	0	10,683 (6.9%)	1	1	1	0
	UKIP	0	6,619 (4.3%)	0	0	0	0
	Socialist Labour	0	5,057 (3.3%)	0	0	0	0
	BNP	0	4,714 (3.1%)	0	0	0	0
	Green	0	3,952 (2.6%)	0	0	0	0
	Welsh Christian	0	1,602 (1.0%)	0	0	0	0
	TUSC	0	809 (0.5%)	0	0	0	0
	Communist	0	464 (0.3%)	0	0	0	0

Regional AMs elected 2011

Party		Name
	Conservative	Byron Davies †
	Conservative	Suzy Davies
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Black
	Plaid Cymru	Bethan Jenkins

† Resigned as AM following his election to the UK House of Commons on 7 May 2015; replaced by Altaf Hussain from 19 May 2015.

2007 Welsh Assembly election additional members

Party		Constituency Seats	List Votes (vote %)	D'Hondt Entitlement	Additional Members Elected	Total Members Elected	Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement
	Labour	7	58,374 (35.8%)	6	0	7	+1
	Plaid Cymru	0	28,819 (17.7%)	2	2	2	0
	Conservative	0	26,119 (16.1%)	2	1	1	−1
	Liberal Democrats	0	20,226 (12.4%)	1	1	1	0
	BNP	0	8,993 (5.5%)	0	0	0	0
	Green	0	6,130 (3.8%)	0	0	0	0
	UKIP	0	5,914 (3.6%)	0	0	0	0
	Socialist Labour	0	2,367 (1.5%)	0	0	0	0
	Welsh Christian	0	1,685 (1.0%)	0	0	0	0
	Independent	0	1,186 (0.7%)	0	0	0	0
	Socialist Alternative	0	1,027 (0.6%)	0	0	0	0
	Respect	0	713 (0.4%)	0	0	0	0
	Independent Conservative	0	582 (0.4%)	0	0	0	0
	Communist	0	546 (0.3%)	0	0	0	0
	Christian Peoples	0	393 (0.2%)	0	0	0	0

2003 Welsh Assembly election additional members

Party		Constituency Seats	List Votes (vote %)	D'Hondt Entitlement	Additional Members Elected	Total Members Elected	Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement
	Labour	7	58,066 (41.61%)	7	0	7	0
	Plaid Cymru	0	24,799 (17.77%)	2	2	2	0
	Conservative	0	20,981 (15.03%)	1	1	1	0
	Liberal Democrats	0	17,746 (12.72%)	1	1	1	0
	Green	0	6,696 (4.80%)	0	0	0	0
	UKIP	0	6,113 (4.38%)	0	0	0	0
	Socialist Labour	0	3,446 (2.47%)	0	0	0	0
	Cymru Annibynnol	0	1,346 (0.96%)	0	0	0	0
	ProLife Alliance	0	355 (0.25%)	0	0	0	0

1999 Welsh Assembly election additional members

Party		Constituency Seats	List Votes (vote %)	D'Hondt Entitlement	Additional Members Elected	Total Members Elected	Deviation from D'Hondt Entitlement
	Labour	7	70,625 (41.79%)	5	0	7	+2
	Plaid Cymru	0	50,757 (30.04%)	4	2	2	−2
	Conservative	0	20,993 (12.42%)	1	1	1	0
	Liberal Democrats	0	18,527 (10.96%)	1	1	1	0
	Green	0	4,082 (2.42%)	0	0	0	0
	People's Representative	0	2,074 (1.23%)	0	0	0	0
	Socialist Alliance	0	1,257 (0.74%)	0	0	0	0
	Natural Law	0	676 (0.40%)	0	0	0	0