Delyn (Senedd constituency)

Not to be confused with Delyn (UK Parliament constituency).

Delyn is a constituency of the Senedd. It elects one Member of the Senedd 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.

Delyn
Senedd county constituency for the Senedd
Delyn shown within the North Wales electoral region and the region shown within Wales
Current Senedd county constituency
Created	1999
Party	Labour
MS	Hannah Blythyn
Preserved county	Clwyd

Boundaries

Map of current boundaries

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

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

Voting

In elections for the Senedd, each voter has two votes. The first vote is for a candidate for the voter's constituency, elected by the first past the post system. The second vote is 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 and Members of the Senedd

Election		Member	Party	Portrait
	1999	Alison Halford	Labour
	2003	Sandy Mewies
	2016	Hannah Blythyn

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

2021 Senedd election: Delyn^[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Constituency			Regional
			Votes	%	±%	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Hannah Blythyn[a]	12,846	48.6	+7.7	10,423	39.6	+5.0
	Conservative	Mark Isherwood[b]	9,135	34.5	+9.0	8,640	32.8	+9.5
	Plaid Cymru	Paul Rowlinson	2,097	7.9	-1.9	3,052	11.6	±0.0
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Parkhurst	1,094	4.1	-3.3	1,105	4.2	-1.8
	UKIP	Mary Davies	862	3.3	-13.1	548	2.1	-12.6
	Reform UK	Aiden Down	297	1.1	New	264	1.0	New
	Gwlad	Anthony Williams	112	0.4	New	121	0.5	New
	Abolish					1,131	4.3	-1.5
	Green					704	2.7	+0.9
	Freedom Alliance (UK)					147	0.6	New
	Communist					60	0.2	-0.1
	Independent	Michelle Brown				49	0.2	New
	Propel					45	0.2	New
	TUSC					25	0.1	New
Majority			3,711	14.1	−1.3
Turnout			26,303	46.81[3]	+3.5
	Labour hold		Swing
Notes Incumbent member for this constituency Incumbent member on the party list, or for another constituency

Elections in the 2010s

Welsh Assembly Election 2016: Delyn^[4]

Party		Candidate	Constituency			Regional[5]
			Votes	%	±%	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Hannah Blythyn	9,480	40.9	−5.2	8,004	34.6	-3.0
	Conservative	Huw Williams	5,898	25.5	−8.2	5,399	23.3	-6.2
	UKIP	Nigel Williams	3,794	16.4	New	3,403	14.7	+9.3
	Plaid Cymru	Paul Rowlinson	2,269	9.8	−2.8	2,681	11.6	-1.6
	Liberal Democrats	Tom Rippeth	1,718	7.4	−0.2	1,390	6.0	-0.1
	Abolish					1,332	5.8	New
	Green					417	1.8	-0.1
	Association of Welsh Independents					234	1.0	New
	Monster Raving Loony					148	0.6	New
	Mark Young - Independent					87	0.4	New
	Communist					63	0.3	+0.1
Majority			3,582	15.4	+3.0
Turnout			23,159	43.3	+0.3
	Labour hold		Swing	+1.5

Welsh Assembly Election 2011: Delyn^[6]

Party		Candidate	Constituency			Regional[7]
			Votes	%	±%	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sandy Mewies	10,695	46.1	+11.5	8,690	37.6	+6.7
	Conservative	Matthew Wright	7,814	33.7	+1.4	6,819	29.5	-0.4
	Plaid Cymru	Carrie Harper	2,918	12.6	−2.1	3,044	13.2	-5.5
	Liberal Democrats	Michele Jones	1,767	7.6	−4.7	1,420	6.1	+0.3
	UKIP					1,241	5.4	+1.3
	BNP					579	2.5	-3.2
	Socialist Labour					540	2.3	+0.8
	Green					444	1.9	-0.7
	Welsh Christian					203	0.9	±0.0
	Weyman - Independent					92	0.4	New
	Communist					56	0.2	-0.3
Majority			2,881	12.4	+10.1
Turnout			23,194	43.0	+1.9
	Labour hold		Swing	+5.1

Regional ballots rejected: 254^[8]

Elections in the 2000s

Welsh Assembly Election 2007: Delyn

Party		Candidate	Constituency			Regional[9]
			Votes	%	±%	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sandy Mewies	7,507	34.6	−4.0	6,470	29.9	-6.7
	Conservative	Antoinette Sandbach	6,996	32.3	+3.3	6,464	29.9	+5.0
	Plaid Cymru	Meg Elis	3,179	14.7	−0.7	4,049	18.7	+3.6
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Matthews	2,669	12.3	−4.7	1,245	5.8	-6.9
	UKIP	Derek Bigg	1,318	6.1	New	877	4.1	+1.5
	BNP					1,236	5.7	New
	Green					570	2.6	-0.1
	Socialist Labour					326	1.5	New
	Welsh Christian					189	0.9	New
	Communist					116	0.5	New
	CPA					73	0.3	New
Majority			511	2.3	−7.2
Turnout			21,669	41.1	+10.1
	Labour hold		Swing	−3.7

Welsh Assembly Election 2003: Delyn

Party		Candidate	Constituency			Regional[10]
			Votes	%	±%	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sandy Mewies	6,520	38.6	−6.1	6,184	36.6
	Conservative	Mark Isherwood	4,896	29.0	+7.0	4,207	24.9
	Liberal Democrats	David P. Lloyd	2,880	17.1	+4.1	2,151	12.7
	Plaid Cymru	Paul J. Rowlinson	2,588	15.3	−5.0	2,549	15.1
	John Marek Independent Party					661	3.9
	Green					464	2.7
	UKIP					445	2.6
	ProLife Alliance					93	0.6
	Cymru Annibynnol					85	0.5
	Communist					59	0.3
Majority			1,624	9.6	−13.1
Turnout			17,073	31.4	−12.8
	Labour hold		Swing	−6.6

2003 Electorate: 54,426
Regional ballots rejected: 203

Elections in the 1990s

Welsh Assembly Election 1999: Delyn

Party		Candidate	Constituency			Regional
			Votes	%	±%	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alison Halford	10,672	44.7	N/A	9,909	41.6	N/A
	Conservative	Karen Lumley	5,255	22.0	N/A	5,000	21.0	N/A
	Plaid Cymru	Meg Elis	4,837	20.3	N/A	4,955	20.8	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Eleanor Burnham	3,089	13.0	N/A	3,091	13.0	N/A
	Green					Unknown	Unknown	N/A
	Rhuddlan Debt Protest Campaign					Unknown	Unknown	N/A
	United Socialist					Unknown	Unknown	N/A
	Communist					Unknown	Unknown	N/A
	Natural Law					Unknown	Unknown	N/A
	Above list parties					842	3.5	N/A
Majority			5,417	22.7	N/A
Turnout			23,853	44.2	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

See also

• North Wales (Senedd electoral region)
• Senedd constituencies and electoral regions