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South Wales East
Dwyrain De Cymru

Senedd electoral region
Created 1999
Current representation
Labour	7 MSs
Conservative	3 MSs
Plaid Cymru	2 MSs
Constituencies 1. Blaenau Gwent 2. Caerphilly 3. Islwyn 4. Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney 5. Monmouth 6. Newport East 7. Newport West 8. Torfaen
Preserved counties Gwent Mid Glamorgan (part)

South Wales East (Welsh: Dwyrain De Cymru) is an electoral region of the Senedd, consisting of eight constituencies. The region elects 12 members, eight directly elected constituency members and four additional members. The electoral region was first used in 1999, 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 boundaries

The region covers the whole of the preserved county of Gwent and part of the preserved county of Mid Glamorgan. The rest of Mid Glamorgan is mostly within the South Wales Central electoral region and partly within the South Wales West region.

Electoral region profile

The region is one of contrasts; it includes the city of Newport, along with the town of Caerphilly. It also takes in the working-class former iron town of Merthyr Tydfil, one of the most deprived towns in the UK, but also rural Monmouthshire, one of the most affluent parts of Wales.

Constituencies

The eight constituencies have the names and boundaries of constituencies of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster):

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: South Wales East
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	Labour	Helen Cunningham, Peter Jones, Mary Brocklesby, Majid Rahman	85,988	41.4	3.1
	Conservative	Laura Anne Jones, Natasha Asghar, Matthew Evans, Nick Evans, Gavin Chambers, Edward Dawson, Donna Gavin, Gareth Hughes	52,323	25.2	8.0
	Plaid Cymru	Delyth Jewell, Peredur Owen Griffiths, Lindsay Whittle, Rhys Mills, Jonathan lark, Ian Gwynne, Daniel Llewelyn	30,530	14.7	0.6
	Abolish	Mark Reckless, Richard Taylor, Stephen Jones, Michael Ford, Robert Steed, Hugh Hughes	9,995	4.8	0.7
	Green	Amelia Womack, Ian Chandler, Lauren James, Stephen Priestnall	9,950	4.8	2.3
	Liberal Democrats	Jo Watkins, Veronica German, Oliver Townsend, Jeremy Becker	7,045	3.4	0.1
	UKIP	Neil Hamilton, Benjamin Walker, Thomas Harrison, Robert James	4,101	2.0	15.8
	Reform UK	James Wells, Kirsty Walmsley, David Rowlands, Colin Jones, Robert Beavis	2,756	1.3	1.3
	Gwlad	Calen Jones, Laurence Williams, Ryan Williams, Terry Beverton	1,841	0.9	0.9
	No More Lockdowns	Gruff Meredith, Mattie Ginsburg	1,496	0.7	0.7
	Propel	Kieran Gething, Anthony Nash, Celia Jones, Kristopher Ashley	924	0.4	0.4
	Communist	Robert Griffiths, Bob Davenport, Glenn Eynon, Irene Green	606	0.3	0.0
	TUSC	Mariam Kamish, Cammilla Mngaza, Melanie Benedict, Dave Reid	362	0.2	0.1

2021 Senedd election additional members

Regional MSs elected 2021

2016 Welsh Assembly election additional members

Regional AMs elected 2016

2011 Welsh Assembly election additional members

Regional AMs elected 2011

2007 Welsh Assembly election additional members

On 8 December 2009, Mohammad Asghar, Plaid Cymru's list member for South Wales East, defected to the Conservative Party. This gave Plaid one AM, and the Conservatives two.

2003 Welsh Assembly additional members

1999 Welsh Assembly additional members

Notes

1. In 2005 Peter Law left the Labour Party in a row over candidate selection in Blaenau Gwent for that year's UK general election.
2. Still a member of the Brexit Party, but part of the Senedd Group 'Independent Group for Reform'
3. In 2017, Mark Reckless left UKIP and was admitted to the Conservative group in the Welsh Assembly, though not to the Conservative Party itself. For purposes of Assembly business, he was treated as a Conservative AM.
4. Steffan Lewis died on 11 January 2019 and was replaced five days later by Delyth Jewell, the next Plaid Cymru candidate on the list.
5. In 2019, Reckless left the Conservative Group to become Independent.

References

1. "Welsh AM Steffan Lewis dies aged 34". BBC News. 11 January 2019. Archived from the original on 17 June 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
2. "New AM following death of Steffan Lewis". BBC News. 16 January 2019. Archived from the original on 10 May 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
3. "Welsh Conservative MS Mohammad Asghar has died aged 74". Western Mail. 16 June 2020. Archived from the original on 16 June 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
4. "Laura Anne Jones confirmed as Member of the Senedd for South Wales East". Welsh Parliament. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
5. ^ "Senedd Cymru Election Result - South Wales East Region" (PDF). Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
6. "BBC NEWS | Politics | Vote 2007". news.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 27 July 2007.
7. "Plaid AM defects to Conservatives". BBC News. 8 December 2009. Archived from the original on 2 May 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
8. ^ "Welsh National Assembly regional constituency: South Wales East [Archive]". 7 August 2011. Archived from the original on 7 August 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2020.

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