Clwyd South (Senedd constituency)

Not to be confused with Clwyd South (UK Parliament constituency).

Clwyd South (Welsh: De Clwyd) is a constituency of the Senedd. It elects one Member of the Senedd 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.

Clwyd South De Clwyd
Senedd county constituency for the Senedd
Clwyd South shown within the North Wales electoral region and the region shown within Wales
Current Senedd county constituency
Created	1999
Party	Labour
MS	Ken Skates
Preserved county	Clwyd and Powys

Boundaries

Map of current boundaries

The constituency was created for the first election to the then Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Clwyd South Westminster constituency. It is mostly within the preserved county of Clwyd and partly within the preserved county of Powys.

For the 2007 Assembly election, however, it became a constituency entirely within Clwyd. Part of its area was transferred to the Montgomeryshire constituency, in Powys. Also, part of its area was transferred to another Clwyd constituency, Clwyd West. For Westminster purposes, the same boundary changes became effective at the 2010 United Kingdom general election.

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.

For the period 1999 to 2007, the Clwyd South constituency can be described as consisting of electoral divisions as follows:

• Within Denbighshire:
  • Corwen, Llandrillo and Llangollen
• Within Wrexham:
  • Bronington, Brymbo, Bryn Cefn, Cefn, Chirk North, Chirk South, Coedpoeth, Dyffryn Ceiriog/Ceiriog Valley, Esclusham, Gwenfro, Johnstown, Llangollen Rural, Marchwiel, Minera, New Broughton, Overton, Pant, Penycae, Penycae and Ruabon South, Plas Madoc, Ponciau and Ruabon

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	Party	Portrait
	1999	Karen Sinclair	Labour
	2011	Ken Skates	Labour

Constituency election results

Elections in the 2020s

2021 Senedd election: Clwyd South^[1]

Party		Candidate	Constituency			Regional
			Votes	%	±%	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ken Skates[a]	10,488	43.2	+7.7	8,753	36.2	+4.9
	Conservative	Barbara Hughes	7,535	31.1	+9.2	7,472	30.9	+10.7
	Plaid Cymru	Llyr Gruffydd[b]	4,094	16.9	-0.5	4,533	18.8	+0.2
	Liberal Democrats	Leena Farhat	730	3.0	-7.3	715	3.0	-5.9
	Abolish	Jonathon Harrington	599	2.5	New	942	3.9	-0.4
	UKIP	Jeanette Bassford-Barton	522	2.2	-10.6	387	1.6	-11.1
	Reform UK	Mandy Jones[b]	277	1.1	New	224	0.9	New
	Green					730	3.0	+0.9
	Freedom Alliance (UK)					119	0.5	New
	Gwlad					106	0.4	New
	Propel					54	0.2	New
	Communist					47	0.2	-0.1
	Independent	Michelle Brown				44	0.2	New
	TUSC					21	0.1	New
Majority			2,953	11.1	−2.5
Turnout			24,245	44.43[2]	+3.5
	Labour hold		Swing
Notes Incumbent member for this constituency Incumbent member on the party list, or for another constituency

Elections in the 2010s

Welsh Assembly Election 2016: Clwyd South

Party		Candidate	Constituency[3]			Regional[4]
			Votes	%	±%	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ken Skates	7,862	35.5	-6.9	6,915	31.3	-6.2
	Conservative	Simon Baynes	4,846	21.9	-7.3	4,472	20.2	-4.0
	Plaid Cymru	Mabon ap Gwynfor	3,861	17.4	-1.2	4,106	18.6	+1.5
	UKIP	Mandy Jones	2,827	12.8	New	2,802	12.7	+8.4
	Liberal Democrats	Aled Roberts	2,289	10.3	+0.4	1,969	8.9	+0.9
	Green	Duncan Rees	474	2.1	New	520	2.4	±0.0
	Abolish					951	4.3	New
	Monster Raving Loony					132	0.6	New
	Association of Welsh Independents					98	0.4	New
	Communist					65	0.3	+0.1
	Mark Young - Independent					64	0.3	New
Majority			3,016	13.6	+0.4
Turnout			22,159	40.9	+4.0
	Labour hold		Swing	+0.2

Welsh Assembly Election 2011: Clwyd South^[5]

Party		Candidate	Constituency			Regional[6]
			Votes	%	±%	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ken Skates	8,500	42.4	+7.3	7,525	37.5	+8.1
	Conservative	Paul Rogers	5,841	29.2	-0.1	4,853	24.2	-1.9
	Plaid Cymru	Mabon ap Gwynfor	3,719	18.6	-1.4	3,435	17.1	-1.4
	Liberal Democrats	Bruce Roberts	1,977	9.9	+0.5	1,600	8.0	-0.7
	UKIP					867	4.3	-0.1
	BNP					535	2.7	-4.4
	Green					486	2.4	-0.4
	Socialist Labour					454	2.3	+0.7
	Welsh Christian					159	0.8	+0.2
	Weyman - Independent					96	0.5	New
	Communist					50	0.2	-0.1
Majority			2,659	13.2	+7.4
Turnout			20,037	36.9	−1.0
	Labour hold		Swing	+3.75

Regional ballots rejected: 172^[7]

Elections in the 2000s

Welsh Assembly Election 2007: Clwyd South

Party		Candidate	Constituency			Regional[8]
			Votes	%	±%	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Karen Sinclair	6,838	35.1	-1.4	5,725	29.4	-3.1
	Conservative	John Bell	5,719	29.3	+10.3	5,092	26.1	+7.2
	Plaid Cymru	Nia Davies	3,894	20.0	-1.0	3,602	18.5	-0.8
	Liberal Democrats	Frank Biggs	1,838	9.4	+0.5	1,702	8.7	-0.3
	UKIP	David Rowlands	1,209	6.2	+3.5	857	4.4	+2.0
	BNP					1,384	7.1	New
	Green					546	2.8	+0.7
	Socialist Labour					315	1.6	New
	Welsh Christian					110	0.6	New
	Communist					65	0.3	New
	CPA					94	0.5	New
Majority			1,119	5.8	−9.7
Turnout			19,498	37.9	+3.5
	Labour hold		Swing

Welsh Assembly Election 2003: Clwyd South

Party		Candidate	Constituency			Regional[9]
			Votes	%	±%	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Karen Sinclair	6,814	36.5	-5.7	6,057	32.5
	Plaid Cymru	Dyfed W. Edwards	3,923	21.0	-4.3	3,604	19.3
	Conservative	Albert M.Fox	3,548	19.0	-0.1	3,524	18.9
	Independent	Marc V. Jones	2,210	11.8	New
	Liberal Democrats	Derek W.L. Burnham	1,666	8.9	-2.3	1,571	8.4
	UKIP	Edwina E. Theunissen	501	2.7	New	451	2.4
	John Marek Independent Party					2,850	15.3
	Green					391	2.1
	Cymru Annibynnol					102	0.5
	Communist					52	0.3
	ProLife Alliance					26	0.1
Majority			2,891	15.5	−1.4
Turnout			18,662	34.4	−6.1
	Labour hold		Swing	-0.7

2003 Electorate: 53,452
Regional ballots rejected: 230

Elections in the 1990s

Welsh Assembly Election 1999: Clwyd South^[10]

Party		Candidate	Constituency[11]			Regional
			Votes	%	±%	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Karen Sinclair	9,196	42.2	N/A	8,706	40.1	N/A
	Plaid Cymru	Hywel Williams	5,511	25.3	N/A	5,866	27.0	N/A
	Conservative	David R. Jones	4,167	19.1	N/A	4,010	18.5	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Derek W.L. Burnham	2,432	11.2	N/A	2,155	9.9	N/A
	Independent	Maurice Jones	508	2.3	N/A
	United Socialist					166	0.8	N/A
	Green					Unknown	Unknown	N/A
	Rhuddlan Debt Protest Campaign					Unknown	Unknown	N/A
	Communist					Unknown	Unknown	N/A
	Natural Law					Unknown	Unknown	N/A
	Above list parties					802	3.7	N/A
Majority			3,685	16.9	N/A
Turnout			21,814	40.5	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

References

1. Clwyd South Statement of Persons Nominated
2. Hayward, Will (7 May 2021). "The voter turnout figures for every constituency in Wales". WalesOnline. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
3. "Wales elections > Clwyd South". BBC News. 6 May 2016. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
4. "Results and turnout at the 2016 National Assembly for Wales election". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
5. "Wales elections > Clwyd South". BBC News. 6 May 2011. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
6. "Results and turnout at the 2011 National Assembly for Wales Election". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
7. "Results and turnout at the 2011 National Assembly for Wales election". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
8. "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.
9. The National Assembly for Wales elections 2003. The Electoral Commission. November 2003. pp. 110–115. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
10. "Wales elections". BBC News. 6 May 1999. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
11. "Wales elections > Clwyd South". BBC News. 6 May 1999. Retrieved 28 October 2017.

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