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North Wales
Gogledd Cymru

Senedd electoral region
North Wales shown within Wales
Created 1999
Current representation
Labour	5 MSs
Conservative	5 MSs
Plaid Cymru	3 MSs
Constituencies 1. Aberconwy 2. Alyn and Deeside 3. Arfon 4. Clwyd South 5. Clwyd West 6. Delyn 7. Vale of Clwyd 8. Wrexham 9. Ynys Môn
Preserved counties Clwyd Gwynedd (part)

North Wales (Welsh: Gogledd Cymru) is an electoral region of the Senedd, consisting of nine constituencies. The region elects thirteen members, nine directly elected constituency members and four additional members. The electoral region was first used in the 1999 Welsh Assembly election, when the National Assembly for Wales was created.

Each constituency elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post electoral system, and the region as a whole elects four additional or top-up Members of the Senedd, to create a degree of proportional representation. The additional member seats are allocated from closed lists by the D'Hondt method, with constituency results being taken into account in the allocation.

County and Westminster boundaries

As created in 1999, the region covered most of the preserved county of Clwyd, part of the preserved county of Gwynedd, and part of the preserved county of Powys. Other parts of these preserved counties were within the Mid and West Wales electoral region. For the 2007 Welsh Assembly election, however, boundaries changed, and the region now covers all of the preserved county of Clwyd and part of the preserved county of Gwynedd. The rest of Gwynedd is in the Mid and West Wales region.

The Senedd constituencies have the names of constituencies of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster). For Westminster election purposes, however, there are no electoral regions, and constituency boundary changes became effective for the 2010 United Kingdom general election.

Electoral region profile

The region is a mix of rural and urban areas, with the population higher in the east, where can be found the region's largest town, Wrexham, and the working-class conurbations of Deeside. The western areas, including the Isle of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), are largely rural. Although Anglesey and Gwynedd are home to large numbers of Welsh speakers, the language is not widely spoken in the north-east.

Constituencies

Former constituencies

1999 to 2007

Assembly members and Members of the Senedd

Constituency AMs and MSs

Regional list AMs and MSs

N.B. This table is for presentation purposes only

2021 Senedd election

2021 Senedd election: North Wales
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	Labour	Carolyn Thomas, Andrew Short, Diane Green, Ryan O'Gorman	73,120	32.3	4.2
	Conservative	Mark Isherwood, Sam Rowlands, Barbara Hughes, Gareth Davies, Abigail Mainon, Jeremy Kent, Gonul Daniels, Lyn Hudson, Anthony Thomas	67,544	29.9	7.7
	Plaid Cymru	Llyr Gruffydd, Carrie Harper, Elin Jones, Paul Rowlinson, Catrin Wager, Aaron Wynne, Jack Morris, Glenn Swingler, Trystan Lewis	53,950	23.9	0.6
	Abolish	Richard Suchorzewski, Jonathon Harrington, William Ashton, Craig Search, Euan McGivern, Nicholas Williams	7,960	3.5	1.1
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Twells, David Wilkins, Timothy Sly, Calum Davies, Andrew Parkhurst	7,160	3.2	1.4
	Green	Iolo Jones, Duncan Rees, Adam Turner, Linda Rogers	6,586	2.9	0.6
	UKIP	Felix Aubel, Jeanie Bassford-Barton, Mary Davies, Jeanette Bassford-Barton, Sebastian Ross	3,573	1.6	10.9
	Reform UK	Nathan Gill, Peter Dain, Nancy Eno, Charles Dodman, Emmett Jenner	2,374	1.0	1.0
	Gwlad	Phil Roberts, Aled Job, Rhydian Hughes, Aaron Norton, Anthony Williams	1,228	0.5	0.5
	Freedom Alliance	Simon Foster, Peter Jones, Miriam Finch, Mark Finchr	1,186	0.5	0.5
	Communist	Trevor Jones, Jayne Evans, David Morgan, Glyn Davies	557	0.2	0.1
	Propel	Jacqui Hurst, Robert Redhead, Nia Marshall Lloyd, Alan Ennis	415	0.2	0.2
	Independent	Michelle Brown	382	0.2	0.2
	TUSC	Michelle Francis	164	0.1	0.1

2021 Senedd election additional members

(The fourth regional seat was allocated to the Conservatives rather than to Plaid Cymru by a margin of only 21 votes).

Regional MSs elected in 2021

2016 Welsh Assembly election additional members

Regional AMs elected in 2016

2011 Welsh Assembly election additional members

Regional AMs elected 2011

† Resigned as AM following her election to the UK House of Commons on 7 May 2015; replaced by Janet Haworth from 27 May 2015.

2007 Welsh Assembly election additional members

2003 Welsh Assembly election additional members

1999 Welsh Assembly election additional members

Notes

1. Christine Humphreys resigned in March 2001 and was replaced by Eleanor Burnham.
2. Rod Richards resigned in September 2002 and was replaced by David Jones.
3. Antoinette Sandbach resigned in May 2015 and was replaced by Janet Haworth.
4. Nathan Gill left the UKIP Group in the Assembly as a result of infighting. He remained a member of the party but sat as an Independent in the Assembly.
5. Gill resigned from the National Assembly on 27 December 2017. He was replaced by Mandy Jones, the next candidate on the UKIP list.
6. Although a member of the party and elected in its name, Jones did not join the UKIP group upon her election to the Senedd. The UKIP group said it would be "impossible" as some of Jones' staff had "campaigned actively for other parties".

References

1. Deans, David (8 May 2015). "Antoinette Sandbach quits Senedd after Eddisbury win; could Byron Davies follow?". WalesOnline. Archived from the original on 27 November 2021. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
2. Deans, David (27 May 2015). "New North Wales AM Janet Haworth begins work as an AM". WalesOnline. Archived from the original on 19 May 2021. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
3. "Nathan Gill leaves UKIP assembly group to sit as independent". BBC News. 17 August 2016. Archived from the original on 19 May 2021. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
4. "Nathan Gill resigns as north Wales AM". 27 December 2017. Archived from the original on 18 July 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2021 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
5. "UKIP will not let Mandy Jones sit with assembly group". BBC News. 9 January 2018. Archived from the original on 18 July 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
6. "results BBC Election". Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2007.
7. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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