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Mid and West Wales (Senedd electoral region)

Electoral region of the Senedd

Summary

Electoral region of the Senedd

Field	Value
name	Mid and West Wales
nativename	cy
constituency_type	Multi-member electoral region
parl_name	Senedd
image	[[File:Mid Wales Senedd region 2021.svg	200px]]
caption	Map of Mid and West Wales, with constituencies numbered alphabetically and coloured in 2021 party colours. Inset within Wales shown to the left with the four regional seats.
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caption2	Interactive map of the constituency
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year	1999 (amended in 2007)
member_label	MSs
members	{{plainlist
district_label	Principal areas
parts_label	Constituencies
region_label	Preserved counties
blank1_name	Former constituencies (1999–2007)

Plaid Cymru (4)
Conservative (4)
Labour (3)
Liberal Democrats (1) |Brecon and Radnorshire|Carmarthen East and Dinefwr|Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire|Ceredigion|Dwyfor Meirionnydd (since 2007)|Llanelli|Montgomeryshire|Preseli Pembrokeshire
Dyfed
Gwynedd (part)
Powys
12
- 8 constituency
- 4 regional
Meirionnydd Nant Conwy

Mid and West Wales () is an electoral region of the Senedd, consisting of eight constituencies. The region elects twelve members, eight directly elected constituency members and four additional members. The electoral region was first used in the 1999 Welsh Assembly election, when the National Assembly for Wales was created.

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

As created in 1999, the region covered the whole of the preserved county of Dyfed, most of the preserved county of Powys and parts of the preserved counties of Clwyd and Gwynedd. Other parts of Powys, Clwyd and Gwynedd were within the North Wales electoral region.

However, boundaries changed for the 2007 Welsh Assembly election and the region now covers all of the preserved county of Dyfed, all of the preserved county of Powys and part of the preserved county of Gwynedd. The rest of Gwynedd is in the North Wales region.

The constituencies have the names and boundaries of constituencies of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster). For Westminster election purposes, however, there are no electoral regions, and constituency boundary changes became effective for the 2010 United Kingdom general election.

Electoral region profile

The region is geographically the largest of the five electoral regions in Wales, being larger in area than the other four regions combined. It consists almost entirely of sparsely populated rural areas, with the exception of the tinplate- and steel-producing town of Llanelli in the south. The Welsh language is widely spoken.

Constituencies

Constituency	2021 result
Brecon and Radnorshire	Welsh Conservatives}}	James Evans
Conservative
Carmarthen East and Dinefwr	Plaid Cymru}}	Adam Price
Plaid Cymru
Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire	Welsh Conservatives}}	Samuel Kurtz
Conservative
Ceredigion	Plaid Cymru}}	Elin Jones
Plaid Cymru
Dwyfor Meirionnydd	Plaid Cymru}}	Mabon ap Gwynfor
Plaid Cymru
Llanelli	Welsh Labour}}	Lee Waters
Labour
Montgomeryshire	Welsh Conservatives}}	Russell George
Conservative
Preseli Pembrokeshire	Welsh Conservatives}}	Paul Davies
Conservative

Former constituencies

1999 to 2007

Map of former boundaries 1999-2007

Constituency	Preserved counties
1. Brecon and Radnorshire	Entirely within Powys
2. Carmarthen East and Dinefwr	Entirely within Dyfed
3. Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
4. Ceredigion
5. Llanelli
6. Meirionnydd Nant Conwy	Partly Clwyd, partly Gwynedd
7. Montgomeryshire	Entirely within Powys
8. Preseli Pembrokeshire	Entirely within Dyfed

Assembly members and Members of the Senedd

Constituency MSs

Term	Election	Brecon and
Radnorshire	Carmarthen East
and Dinefwr	Carmarthen West and
South Pembrokeshire	Ceredigion	Meirionnydd
Nant Conwy	Llanelli	Montgomeryshire	Preseli
Pembrokeshire	Term	Election	Brecon and
Radnorshire	Carmarthen East
and Dinefwr	Carmarthen West and
South Pembrokeshire	Ceredigion	Dwyfor Meirionnydd	Llanelli	Montgomeryshire	Preseli
Pembrokeshire
1st	1999	Welsh Liberal Democrats}}" rowspan="2"		Kirsty Williams
(LD)	Plaid Cymru}}" rowspan="2"		Rhodri Glyn Thomas
(PC)	Welsh Labour}}" rowspan="2"		Christine Gwyther
(Lab)	Plaid Cymru}}" rowspan="2"		Elin Jones
(PC)	Plaid Cymru}}" rowspan="2"		Dafydd Elis-Thomas
(PC)	Plaid Cymru}}"		Helen Mary Jones
(PC)	Welsh Liberal Democrats}}" rowspan="2"		Mick Bates
(LD)	Welsh Labour}}" rowspan="2"		Richard Edwards
(Lab)
2nd	2003	Welsh Labour}}"		Catherine Thomas
(Lab)	Tamsin Dunwoody
(Lab)
3rd	2007	Welsh Liberal Democrats}}" rowspan="4"		Kirsty Williams
(LD)	Plaid Cymru}}" rowspan="5"		Rhodri Glyn Thomas
(PC)	Welsh Conservatives}}" rowspan="5"		Angela Burns
(Con)	Plaid Cymru}}" rowspan="5"		Elin Jones
(PC)	Plaid Cymru}}" rowspan="3"		Dafydd Elis-Thomas
(PC)
(later Independent)	Plaid Cymru}}"		Helen Mary Jones
(PC)	Welsh Liberal Democrats}}"		Mick Bates
(LD)	Welsh Conservatives}}" rowspan="5"		Paul Davies
(Con)
4th	2011	Welsh Labour}}" rowspan="4"		Keith Davies
(Lab)	Welsh Conservatives}}" rowspan="4"		Russell George
(Con)
5th	2016	Adam Price
(PC)	Lee Waters
(Lab)
url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-37661776	title=Lord Elis-Thomas quits Plaid Cymru	date=14 October 2016	via=www.bbc.co.uk	access-date=25 June 2020	archive-date=4 August 2020	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804051152/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-37661776	url-status=live}}	Independent (politician)}}"
6th	2021	Welsh Conservatives}}"		James Evans
(Con)	Samuel Kurtz
(Con)	Plaid Cymru}}"		Mabon ap Gwynfor
(PC)

Regional list MSs

N.B. This table is for presentation purposes only

Term	Election	AM	AM	AM	AM
1st	1999	Welsh Conservative Party}}" rowspan="4"		Nick Bourne
(Con)	Welsh Conservative Party}}" rowspan="3"		Glyn Davies
(Con)
2000	Delyth Evans
(Lab)
2nd	2003	Welsh Conservatives}}"		Lisa Francis
(Con)	Helen Mary Jones
(PC)
3rd	2007	Welsh Labour}}" rowspan="5"		Alun Davies
(Lab)	Welsh Labour}}" rowspan="5"		Joyce Watson
(Lab)
4th	2011	Welsh Liberal Democrats}}"		William Powell
(LD)	Rebecca Evans
(Lab)	Simon Thomas
(PC)
5th	2016	UK Independence Party}}"		Neil Hamilton
(UKIP)	Eluned Morgan
(Lab)
2018		Helen Mary Jones
(PC)
6th	2021	Welsh Liberal Democrats}}"			Jane Dodds
(LD)		Cefin Campbell
(PC)

2021 Senedd election

Main article: 2021 Senedd election

2021 Senedd election additional members

Party	Constituency
seats	List
votes (vote %)	D'Hondt
entitlement	Additional
Members
elected	Total
Members
elected	Deviation
from
D'Hondt
entitlement
Plaid Cymru}}"		[](plaid-cymru)	3	65,460 (27.5%)	4	1	4
Welsh Conservatives}}"		[](welsh-conservative)	4	63,827 (26.8%)	4	0	4
Welsh Labour}}"		[](welsh-labour)	1	61,733 (25.9%)	3	2	3
Welsh Liberal Democrats}}"		[](welsh-liberal-democrats)	0	16,181 (6.8%)	1	1	1
Green Party of England and Wales}}"		[](wales-green-party)	0	10,545 (4.4%)	0	0	0
Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party}}"		[](abolish-the-welsh-assembly-party)	0	8,073 (3.4%)	0	0	0
UK Independence Party}}"		[](uk-independence-party)	0	3,731 (1.6%)	0	0	0
Reform UK}}"		[](reform-uk)	0	2,582 (0.5%)	0	0	0
Propel}}"		[](propel-political-party)	0	1,428 (0.5%)	0	0	0
Welsh Christian Party}}"		[](welsh-christian-party)	0	1,366 (0.6%)	0	0	0
Gwlad}}"		Gwlad	0	1,303 (0.5%)	0	0	0
	Freedom Alliance	0	1,181 (0.5%)	0	0	0
Communist}}"		[](communist-party-of-britain)	0	589 (0.2%)	0	0	0
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition}}"		[](trade-unionist-and-socialist-coalition)	0	257 (0.1%)	0	0	0

Regional MSs elected 2021

Party	Name
Welsh Labour}}"		[](welsh-labour)
Welsh Labour}}"		[](welsh-labour)
Plaid Cymru}}"		[](plaid-cymru)
Welsh Liberal Democrats}}"		[](welsh-liberal-democrats)

D'Hondt count

Seat #	Party	Votes	Member	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4
–	Plaid Cymru	65460					Constituency seat 1
–	Conservative	63827					Constituency seat 1
–	Labour	61733					Constituency seat 1
–	Plaid Cymru		32730				Constituency seat 2
–	Conservative		31914				Constituency seat 2
1	Labour		30866				Eluned Morgan
–	Plaid Cymru			21820			Constituency seat 3
–	Conservative			21276			Constituency seat 3
2	Labour			20578			Joyce Watson
3	Plaid Cymru				16365		Cefin Campbell
4	Liberal Democrats	16181					Jane Dodds
–	Conservative				15957		Constituency seat 4
5	Labour				15433		Helen Taylor
6	Plaid Cymru					13092	Helen Mary Jones
7	Conservative					12765	Tomos Davies
8	Labour					12347	Ben Gwalchmai

2016 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
Plaid Cymru}}"		[](plaid-cymru)	3	56,754 (26.3%)	4	1	4
Welsh Conservatives}}"		[](welsh-conservative)	3	44,461 (20.6%)	3	0	3
Welsh Labour}}"		[](welsh-labour)	1	41,975 (19.4%)	3	2	3
United Kingdom Independence Party}}"		[](uk-independence-party)	0	25,042 (11.6%)	1	1	1
Welsh Liberal Democrats}}"		[](welsh-liberal-democrats)	1	23,554 (10.9%)	1	0	1
Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party}}"		[](abolish-the-welsh-assembly-party)	0	10,707 (5.0%)	0	0	0
Green Party of England and Wales}}"		[](wales-green-party)	0	8,222 (3.8%)	0	0	0
Independent (politics)}}"		People First	0	1,496 (0.7%)	0	0	0
Welsh Christian Party}}"		[](welsh-christian-party)	0	1,103 (0.5%)	0	0	0
Official Monster Raving Loony Party}}"		[](official-monster-raving-loony-party)	0	1,071 (0.5%)	0	0	0
Independent (politics)}}"		[](independent-politics)	0	1,032 (0.5%)	0	0	0
Welsh Communist Party}}"		[](welsh-communist-party)	0	423 (0.2%)	0	0	0

Regional AMs elected 2016

Party	Name
UK Independence Party}}"		[](uk-independence-party)
Welsh Labour}}"		[](welsh-labour)
Plaid Cymru}}"		[](plaid-cymru)
Welsh Labour}}"		[](welsh-labour)

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
Plaid Cymru}}"		[](plaid-cymru)	3	56,384 (26.7%)	4	1	4
Welsh Conservatives}}"		[](welsh-conservative)	3	52,905 (25.1%)	3	0	3
Welsh Labour}}"		[](welsh-labour)	1	47,348 (22.5%)	3	2	3
Welsh Liberal Democrats}}"		[](welsh-liberal-democrats)	1	26,847 (12.7%)	2	1	2
United Kingdom Independence Party}}"		[](uk-independence-party)	0	9,711 (4.6%)	0	0	0
Green Party of England and Wales}}"		[](wales-green-party)	0	8,660 (4.1%)	0	0	0
Socialist Labour Party (UK)}}"		[](socialist-labour-party-uk)	0	3,951 (1.9%)	0	0	0
British National Party}}"		[](british-national-party)	0	2,821 (1.3%)	0	0	0
Welsh Christian Party}}"		[](welsh-christian-party)	0	1,630 (0.8%)	0	0	0
Communist Party of Britain}}"		[](communist-party-of-britain)	0	595 (0.3%)	0	0	0

Regional AMs elected 2011

Party	Name
Welsh Labour}}"		[](welsh-labour)
Welsh Labour}}"		[](welsh-labour)
Welsh Liberal Democrats}}"		[](liberal-democrats-uk)
Plaid Cymru}}"		[](plaid-cymru)

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
Plaid Cymru}}"		[](plaid-cymru)	4	67,258 (31.0%)	5	1	5
Welsh Conservatives}}"		[](welsh-conservative)	2	49,606 (22.9%)	3	1	3
Welsh Labour}}"		[](welsh-labour)	0	39,979 (18.4%)	2	2	2
Welsh Liberal Democrats}}"		[](welsh-liberal-democrats)	2	28,790 (13.3%)	2	0	2
Green Party of England and Wales}}"		[](green-party-of-england-and-wales)	0	8,768 (4.0%)	0	0	0
United Kingdom Independence Party}}"		[](uk-independence-party)	0	8,191 (3.8%)	0	0	0
British National Party}}"		[](british-national-party)	0	6,389 (2.9%)	0	0	0
Socialist Labour Party (UK)}}"		[](socialist-labour-party-uk)	0	2,196 (1.0%)	0	0	0
Independent (politician)}}"		[](independent-politician) (Gwynoro Jones)	0	1,598 (0.7%)	0	0	0
Welsh Christian Party}}"		[](welsh-christian-party)	0	1,493 (0.7%)	0	0	0
Independent (politician)}}"		[](independent-politician) (Caroline Evans)	0	1,108 (0.5%)	0	0	0
Communist Party of Britain}}"		[](communist-party-of-britain)	0	666 (0.3%)	0	0	0
Veritas (political party)}}"		[](veritas-political-party)	0	502 (0.2%)	0	0	0
Christian Peoples Alliance}}"		[](christian-peoples-alliance)	0	413 (0.2%)	0	0	0

Regional AMs elected 2007

Party	Name
Welsh Conservative Party}}"		[](welsh-conservative-party)
Welsh Labour}}"		[](welsh-labour)
Plaid Cymru}}"		[](plaid-cymru)
Welsh Labour}}"		[](welsh-labour)

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
Plaid Cymru}}"		[](plaid-cymru)	3	51,874 (28.16%)	4	1	4
Welsh Labour}}"		[](welsh-labour)	3	46,451 (25.22%)	3	0	3
Welsh Conservatives}}"		[](welsh-conservative)	0	35,566 (19.31%)	3	3	3
Welsh Liberal Democrats}}"		[](welsh-liberal-democrats)	2	30,177 (16.38%)	2	0	2
Green Party of England and Wales}}"		[](green-party-of-england-and-wales)	0	7,794 (4.23%)	0	0	0
United Kingdom Independence Party}}"		[](uk-independence-party)	0	5,945 (3.23%)	0	0	0
	Mid & West Wales Pensioners	0	3,968 (2.15%)	0	0	0
	Cymru Annibynnol	0	1,324 (0.72%)	0	0	0
	Vote No 2 Stop the War	0	716 (0.39%)	0	0	0
ProLife Alliance}}"		[](prolife-alliance)	0	383 (0.21%)	0	0	0

Regional AMs elected 2003

Party	Name
Welsh Conservative Party}}"		[](welsh-conservative-party)
Welsh Conservative Party}}"		[](welsh-conservative-party)
Plaid Cymru}}"		[](plaid-cymru)
Welsh Conservative Party}}"		[](welsh-conservative-party)

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
Plaid Cymru}}"		[](plaid-cymru)	4	84,554 (38.55%)	5	1	5
Welsh Labour}}"		[](welsh-labour)	2	53,842 (24.55%)	3	1	3
Welsh Conservatives}}"		[](welsh-conservative)	0	36,622 (16.70%)	2	2	2
Welsh Liberal Democrats}}"		[](welsh-liberal-democrats)	2	31,683 (14.44%)	2	0	2
Green Party of England and Wales}}"		[](green-party-of-england-and-wales)	0	7,718 (3.52%)	0	0	0
Socialist Labour Party (UK)}}"		[](socialist-labour-party-uk)	0	3,019 (1.38%)	0	0	0
Independent (politician)}}"		[](independent-politician)	0	1,214 (0.55%)	0	0	0
Natural Law Party}}"		[](natural-law-party)	0	705 (0.32%)	0	0	0

Regional AMs elected 1999

Party	Name
Welsh Conservatives}}"		[](welsh-conservatives)
Welsh Labour}}"		[](welsh-labour)
Plaid Cymru}}"		[](plaid-cymru)
Welsh Conservatives}}"		[](welsh-conservatives)

References

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Alun Michael resigned in May 2000 and was replaced by Delyth Evans.
(July 25, 2018). "AM quits after indecent images arrest".
BBC Election [https://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/bsp/hi/vote2007/maps/wales_regions/html/wales_regions_map.stm results]
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