Meirionnydd Nant Conwy (Assembly constituency)

52.956°N 3.569°W / 52.956; -3.569

Meirionnydd Nant Conwy

Welsh Assembly county constituency
Meirionnydd Nant Conwy shown as one of the 40 Welsh Assembly constituencies
Created:	1999
Electoral region:	Mid and West Wales
AM 1999–2007:	Dafydd Elis-Thomas
Party:	Plaid Cymru (presiding officer)
Preserved counties:	Clwyd and Gwynedd
Replaced by:	Dwyfor Meirionnydd

Meirionnydd Nant Conwy was a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales between 1999 and 2007.^[1] It elected one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it was one of eight constituencies in the Mid and West Wales electoral region, which elected four additional members, in addition to eight constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.^[2]

Boundaries

The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Meirionnydd Nant Conwy Westminster constituency. It was partly within the preserved county of Clwyd and partly within the preserved county of Gwynedd. The constituency was abolished following boundary changes for the 2007 Assembly elections.

The other seven constituencies of the region were Brecon and Radnorshire, Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion, Llanelli, Montgomeryshire and Preseli Pembrokeshire.

Voting

In 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

Period		Member	Party	Portrait
	1999	Dafydd Elis-Thomas	Plaid Cymru
2007		constituency abolished

Elections

2003

Welsh Assembly Election 2003: Meirionnydd Nant Conwy

Party		Candidate	Constituency			Regional[3]
			Votes	%	±%	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Dafydd Elis-Thomas	8,717	57.4	6.4	7,241	47.7
	Labour	Edwin Woodward	2,891	19.0	1.6	2,964	19.5
	Conservative	Lisa Francis	2,485	16.4	4.9	2,416	15.9
	Liberal Democrats	Kenneth Harris	1,100	7.2	0.1	1,321	8.7
	Green					685	4.5
	UKIP					193	1.3
	Mid and West Wales Pensioners					185	1.2
	Cymru Annibynnol					91	0.6
	Vote 2 Stop the War					48	0.3
	ProLife Alliance					37	0.2
Majority			5,826	38.4	8.0
Turnout			15,193	45.0	17.3
	Plaid Cymru hold		Swing	4.0

1999

Welsh Assembly Election 1999: Meirionnydd Nant Conwy^[4]

Party		Candidate	Constituency			Regional
			Votes	%	±%	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Dafydd Elis-Thomas	12,034	63.8	N/A	10,241	54.1	N/A
	Labour	Denise Idris Jones	3,292	17.4	N/A	3,738	19.8	N/A
	Conservative	Owen J Williams	2,170	11.5	N/A	2,597	13.7	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Worley	1,378	7.3	N/A	1,357	7.2	N/A
	All other list parties					987	5.2	N/A
Majority			8,742	46.4	N/A
Turnout			18,874	57.3	N/A
	Plaid Cymru win (new seat)