Aberconwy (Senedd constituency)

Not to be confused with Aberconwy (UK Parliament constituency).

Aberconwy is a constituency of the Senedd. First created for the former Assembly's 2007 election. It elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. 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.

Aberconwy
Senedd county constituency for the Senedd
Aberconwy shown within the North Wales electoral region and the region shown within Wales
Current Senedd county constituency
Created	2007
Party	Conservative
Member of the Senedd	Janet Finch-Saunders
Preserved county	Clwyd
Created from	Conwy and Meirionnydd Nant Conwy

History

Since its creation, this seat has been a three-way marginal constituency between the Conservatives, Labour and Plaid Cymru. Plaid won this seat in the 2007 election but since then the Conservatives have narrowly held the constituency.

Boundaries

Map of current boundaries

The constituency had the same boundary as the Aberconwy Westminster constituency, which came into use for the 2010 United Kingdom general election. It was created in 2007 and merges into one constituency areas formerly within the Conwy and Meirionnydd Nant Conwy constituencies. Conwy was a constituency within the North Wales electoral region, straddling the boundary between the preserved county of Clwyd and the preserved county of Gwynedd. Meirionnydd Nant Conwy also straddled this boundary, but was within the Mid and West Wales region.

Aberconwy constituency is entirely within the preserved county of Clwyd.

It is composed of the Conwy electoral divisions: Betws-y-Coed, Bryn, Caerhun, Capelulo, Conwy, Craig-y-Don, Crwst, Deganwy, Egwysbach, Gogarth, Gower, Llansanffraid, Marl, Mostyn, Pandy, Penmaenan, Penrhyn, Pensarn, Trefriw, Tudno, and Uwch Conwy.

The North Wales region was created for the first Assembly election, in 1999. For the 2007 election, however, it had new boundaries. It includes the constituencies of Aberconwy, Alyn and Deeside, Arfon, Clwyd South, Clwyd West, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn.

Voting

In general elections for the Senedd, each voter has two votes. The first vote may be used to vote for a candidate to become the Member of the Senedd 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.

Members of the Senedd

Election		Member	Portrait	Party
	2007	Gareth Jones		Plaid Cymru
	2011	Janet Finch-Saunders		Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

2021 Senedd election: Aberconwy^[1]

Party		Candidate	Constituency			Regional[2]
			Votes	%	±%	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Janet Finch-Saunders[a]	9,815	41.7	+7.0	7,925	33.8	+10.2
	Plaid Cymru	Aaron Wynne	6,479	27.5	-3.8	5,932	25.3	-1.9
	Labour	Dawn McGuinness	5,971	25.4	-2.0	6,446	27.5	+5.0
	Liberal Democrats	Rhys Jones	735	3.1	-0.4	680	2.9	-0.9
	Reform UK	Rachel Bagshaw	320	1.4	New	237	1.0	New
	No More Lockdowns	Sharon Smith	223	0.9	New
	Abolish					787	3.4	-1.2
	Green					744	3.2	+0.7
	UKIP					287	1.2	-9.4
	Freedom Alliance (UK)					161	0.7	New
	Gwlad					120	0.5	New
	Communist					54	0.2	±0.0
	Independent	Michelle Brown				35	0.1	New
	Propel					28	0.1	New
	TUSC					11	0.0	New
Majority			3,336	14.2	+10.8
Turnout			23,543	51.82[3]	+2.8
	Conservative hold		Swing	+5.4
Notes Incumbent member for this constituency

Elections in the 2010s

Aberconwy vote count at the 2016 Assembly election (L-R: Janet Finch Saunders, Sarah Lesiter-Burgess, Petra Haig, Mike Priestley, Trystan Lewis)

Welsh Assembly Election 2016: Aberconwy

Party		Candidate	Constituency[4]			Regional[5]
			Votes	%	±%	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Janet Finch-Saunders	7,646	34.7	+0.7	5,808	23.6	-6.7
	Plaid Cymru	Trystan Lewis	6,892	31.3	+5.1	5,994	27.2	+2.8
	Labour	Mike Priestley	6,039	27.4	+1.7	4,961	22.5	-1.7
	Liberal Democrats	Sarah Lesiter-Burgess	871	3.5	-10.7	847	3.8	-4.3
	Green	Petra Haig	680	3.1	New	547	2.5	+0.1
	UKIP					2,343	10.6	+5.9
	Abolish					1,026	4.6	New
	Association of Welsh Independents					310	1.4	New
	Monster Raving Loony					133	0.6	New
	Communist					54	0.2	±0.0
	Mark Young - Independent					44	0.2	New
Majority			754	3.4	−4.4
Turnout			22,038	49.0	+3.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	-2.2

Welsh Assembly Election 2011: Aberconwy^[6]

Party		Candidate	Constituency			Regional[7]
			Votes	%	±%	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Janet Finch-Saunders	6,888	34.0	+3.6	6,153	30.3	+1.4
	Plaid Cymru	Iwan Huws	5,321	26.2	-12.4	4,948	24.4	-8.2
	Labour	Eifion Williams	5,206	25.7	+3.9	4,905	24.2	-4.3
	Liberal Democrats	Mike Priestley	2,873	14.2	+4.9	1,653	8.1	+0.9
	UKIP					959	4.7	+1.5
	Green					477	2.4	-0.4
	BNP					362	1.8	-1.4
	Socialist Labour					337	1.7	+0.9
	Weyman - Independent					318	1.6	New
	Welsh Christian					129	0.6	-0.1
	Communist					43	0.2	±0.0
Majority			1,567	7.8	N/A
Turnout			20,288	45.1	−1.8
	Conservative gain from Plaid Cymru		Swing	+8.0

Regional ballots rejected: 162^[8]

Elections in the 2000s

Welsh Assembly Election 2007: Aberconwy

Party		Candidate	Constituency			Regional[9]
			Votes	%	±%	Votes	%	±%
	Plaid Cymru	Gareth Jones	7,983	38.6	N/A	6,712	32.6	N/A
	Conservative	Dylan Jones-Evans	6,290	30.4	N/A	5,954	28.9	N/A
	Labour	Denise Idris Jones	4,508	21.8	N/A	4,108	19.9	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Euron Hughes	1,918	9.3	N/A	1,477	7.2	N/A
	BNP					667	3.2	N/A
	UKIP					655	3.2	N/A
	Green					567	2.8	N/A
	Socialist Labour					175	0.8	N/A
	Welsh Christian					141	0.7	N/A
	CPA					105	0.5	N/A
	Communist					50	0.2	N/A
Majority			1,693	8.2	N/A
Turnout			20,699	46.9	N/A
	Plaid Cymru win (new seat)

References

1. Archived 18 April 2021 at the Wayback Machine Aberconwy Statement of Persons Nominated
2. Regional Declaration of Results (North Wales). Retrieved 2021/05/09.
3. Hayward, Will (7 May 2021). "The voter turnout figures for every constituency in Wales". WalesOnline. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
4. "Wales elections". BBC News. 6 May 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
5. "Results and turnout at the 2016 National Assembly for Wales election". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
6. "Wales elections > Aberconwy". BBC News. 6 May 2011. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
7. "Results and turnout at the 2011 National Assembly for Wales Election". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
8. "Results and turnout at the 2011 National Assembly for Wales election". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
9. "2007 Assembly Election Results (updated) July 2007(Page 78 of the PDF / Page 72 of booklet)" (PDF). National Assembly for Wales. Retrieved 24 October 2021.

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