Coordinates: 53°15′07″N 3°11′35″W / 53.252°N 3.193°W
| Delyn National Assembly for Wales county constituency |
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| Delyn shown within the North Wales electoral region and the region shown within Wales |
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| Created: | 1999 |
| AM: | Sandy Mewies |
| Party: | Labour |
| Preserved county: | Clwyd |
Delyn 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 Delyn Westminster constituency. It is entirely within the preserved county of Clwyd.
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. For the 2007 election the region will include Aberconwy, Alyn and Deeside, Arfon, Clwyd South, Clwyd West, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn.
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 | |
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| 1999 - 2003 | Alison Halford | Labour Party | |
| 2003 - present | Sandy Mewies | Labour Party | |
Elections
| Assembly Election 2007: Delyn | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Sandy Mewies | 7,507 | 34.6 | -4.0 | |
| Conservative | Antoinette Sandbach | 6,996 | 32.3 | +3.3 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Meg Elis | 3,179 | 14.7 | -0.7 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Ian Matthews | 2,669 | 12.3 | -4.7 | |
| UKIP | Derek Bigg | 1,318 | 6.1 | +6.1 | |
| Majority | 511 | 2.4 | |||
| Turnout | 21,669 | 41.1 | +10.1 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Assembly Election 2003: Delyn | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Sandy Mewies | 6,520 | 38.6 | -6.1 | |
| Conservative | Mark Isherwood | 4,896 | 29.0 | +7.0 | |
| Liberal Democrat | David Lloyd | 2,880 | 17.1 | +4.1 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Paul Rowlinson | 2,588 | 15.3 | -4.0 | |
| Majority | 1,624 | 9.6 | -13.1 | ||
| Turnout | 17,073 | 31.4 | -13.0 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Assembly Election 1999: Delyn | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Alison Halford | 10,672 | 44.7 | ||
| Conservative | Karen Lumley | 5,255 | 22.0 | ||
| Plaid Cymru | Meg Elis | 4,837 | 20.3 | ||
| Liberal Democrat | Eleanor Burnham | 3,089 | 13.0 | ||
| Majority | 5,417 | 22.7 | |||
| Turnout | 23,853 | 44.2 | |||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
See also
- North Wales (National Assembly for Wales electoral region)
- National Assembly for Wales constituencies and electoral regions
References
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