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| 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 |
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| Created: | 1999 |
| AM: | Carl Sargeant |
| Party: | Labour |
| 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.
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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 | |
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| 1999 | Tom Middlehurst | Labour | |
| 2003 | Carl Sargeant | Labour | |
Elections
| Assembly Election 2007: Alyn and Deeside | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Carl Sargeant | 8,196 | 38.8 | ||
| Conservative | Will Gallagher | 4,834 | 22.9 | ||
| Independent | Dennis Hutchinson | 3,241 | 15.4 | ||
| Liberal Democrat | Paul Brighton | 2,091 | 9.9 | ||
| Plaid Cymru | Dafydd Passe | 1,398 | 6.6 | ||
| UKIP | William Crawford | 1,335 | 6.3 | ||
| Majority | 3,362 | 15.9 | |||
| Turnout | 21,095 | 35.5 | |||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Assembly Election 2003: Alyn and Deeside | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Carl Sargeant | 7,036 | 46.7 | -4.6 | |
| Conservative | Matthew Wright | 3,533 | 23.5 | +5.5 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Paul Brighton | 2,509 | 16.7 | +6.8 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Richard Coombs | 1,160 | 7.7 | -4.4 | |
| UKIP | William Crawford | 826 | 5.5 | +5.5 | |
| Majority | 3,503 | 23.3 | -10.2 | ||
| Turnout | 15,172 | 25.1 | -7.2 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Assembly Election 1999: Alyn and Deeside | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Tom Middlehurst | 9,772 | 51.4 | ||
| Conservative | Neil Formstone | 3,413 | 17.9 | ||
| Plaid Cymru | Ann Owen | 2,304 | 12.1 | ||
| Liberal Democrat | Jeff Clarke | 1,879 | 9.9 | ||
| Independent | John Cooksey | 1,333 | 7.0 | ||
| Communist | Glyn Davies | 329 | 1.7 | ||
| Majority | 6,359 | 33.5 | |||
| Turnout | 19,030 | 32.1 | |||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
See also
- North Wales (National Assembly for Wales electoral region)
- National Assembly for Wales constituencies and electoral regions
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