Coordinates: 52°50′56″N 3°58′59″W / 52.849°N 3.983°W
| Dwyfor Meirionnydd National Assembly for Wales county constituency |
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| Dwyfor Meirionnydd shown within the Mid and West Wales electoral region and the region shown within Wales |
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| Created: | 2007 |
| AM: | Dafydd Elis-Thomas |
| Party: | Plaid Cymru |
| Preserved county: | Gwynedd |
Dwyfor Meirionnydd is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales, created for the 2007 Assembly election. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of eight constituencies in the Mid and West 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 shares the boundaries of the Dwyfor Meirionnydd Westminster constituency, which will come into use for the 2010 United Kingdom general election, created by merging into one constituency areas which were previously within the Caernarfon and Meirionnydd Nant Conwy constituencies.
Caernarfon is a Gwynedd constituency, entirely within the preserved county of Gwynedd, and one of nine constituencies in the North Wales region. Meirionnydd Nant Conwy was partly a Gwynedd constituency and partly a Clwyd constituency, partly within the preserved county of Gwynedd and partly within the preserved county of Clwyd, and one of eight constituencies in the Mid and West Wales electoral region.
Dwyfor Meirionnydd is a Gwynedd constituency, one of three constituencies entirely within the preserved county of Gwynedd, and one of eight constituencies in the Mid and West Wales electoral region. The other Gwynedd constituencies, however, Arfon and Ynys Môn, are within the North Wales electoral region.
The Mid and West Wales region consists of the constituencies of Brecon and Radnorshire, Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion, Dwyfor Meirionnydd, Llanelli, Montgomeryshire and Preseli Pembrokeshire.
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
It has been represented since its creation by Dafydd Elis-Thomas. He has been the Presiding Officer of the Assembly since 1999, and previously represented the former constituency of Meirionnydd Nant Conwy from 1999 to 2007.
| Period | Member | Party | |
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| 2007 to present | Dafydd Elis-Thomas | Plaid Cymru | |
Elections
| Assembly Election 2007: Dwyfor Meirionnydd | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Plaid Cymru | Dafydd Elis-Thomas | 13,201 | 59.7 | +2.3 | |
| Conservative | Mike Wood | 4,333 | 19.6 | +5.5 | |
| Labour | David Phillips | 2,749 | 12.4 | -9.1 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Steve Churchman | 1,839 | 8.3 | +1.3 | |
| Majority | 8,868 | 40.1 | |||
| Turnout | 22,122 | 47.4 | +3.4 | ||
| Plaid Cymru hold | Swing | ||||
References
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