Aberconwy will be a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales, created for the 2007 Assembly election. It will elect one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it wil be 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. The National Assembly for Wales (or NAW) (Welsh: Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru) was established in 1998, following a 1997 referendum in which a small majority of voters (but not the electorate) voted in favour of the Labour Governments plans for devolution. ... A County constituency is a constituency in the United Kingdom that covers a predominantly rural area. ... The National Assembly for Wales (Welsh: ) is made up of 60 Assembly Members (Welsh: ). Under the Additional Member System, 40 of these Assembly Members (or AMs) are elected from single-member constituencies, on a first past the post (FPTP or single-member district plurality, SMDP) basis, the constituencies being identical... North Wales is an electoral region of the National Assembly for Wales, consisting of nine constituencies. ... The National Assembly for Wales is composed of 60 members known as AMs or assembly members (in Welsh: ACau or Aelodaur Cynulliad). ... This is a list of political parties in the United Kingdom. ... The Preserved counties of Wales are the current areas used in Wales for ceremonial purposes such as Lieutenancy. ... Clwyd is a preserved county of Wales, formed from the traditional counties of Denbighshire and Flintshire, and parts of Merionethshire. ... In the United Kingdom each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly. ... Regional proportion of Yes vote in the 1997 referendum. ... The Welsh Assembly Election 2007 will be a general election to the National Assembly for Wales, to take place on Thursday 3 May, 2007. ... The National Assembly for Wales is composed of 60 members known as AMs or assembly members (in Welsh: ACau or Aelodaur Cynulliad). ... The plurality voting system, also known as first past the post, is a voting system used to elect a single winner in a given election. ... North Wales is an electoral region of the National Assembly for Wales, consisting of nine constituencies. ... National Assembly for Wales constituencies and electoral regions were first used for the Welsh Assembly election, 1999. ... The Additional Member System (AMS) is a voting system in which some representatives are elected from geographic constituencies and others are elected under proportional representation from party lists. ... Proportional representation (sometimes referred to as full representation, or PR), is a category of electoral formula aiming at a close match between the percentage of votes that groups of candidates (grouped by a certain measure) obtain in elections and the percentage of seats they receive (usually in legislative assemblies). ...

Boundaries

The constituency will have the boundaries of the Aberconwy Westminster constituency, which will come into use for the next United Kingdom general election. It will merge into one constituency areas currently within the Conwy and Meirionnydd Nant Conwy constituencies. Conwy is currently 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 straddles this boundary, but is within the Mid and West Wales region. Aberconwy will be a North Wales constituency entirely within Clwyd. Aberconwy will be a constituency to be represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The next United Kingdom general election must be held on or before 3 June, 2010. ... Conwy is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. ... Meirionnydd Nant Conwy is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. ... The Preserved counties of Wales are the current areas used in Wales for ceremonial purposes such as Lieutenancy. ... Clwyd is a preserved county of Wales, formed from the traditional counties of Denbighshire and Flintshire, and parts of Merionethshire. ... Gwynedd is an administrative county in Wales, named after the old Kingdom of Gwynedd. ... Mid and West Wales is an electoral region of the National Assembly for Wales, consisting of eight constituencies. ...

The North Wales region was created for the first Assembly election, in 1999. For the 2007 election, however, it will have new boundaries. It will include the constituencies of Aberconwy, Alyn and Deeside, Arfon, Clwyd South, Clwyd West, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn. First-Past-the-Post results Additional Members System Results ... Alyn and Deeside is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. ... Arfon will be a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales, created for the 2007 Assembly election. ... Clwyd South is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. ... Clwyd West is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. ... Delyn is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. ... Vale of Clwyd is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. ... Wrexham is a constituency represented in the National Assembly for Wales. ... Ynys Môn is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. ...

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. A general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are up for election. ... Closed list describes the variant of party_list proportional representation where voters can (effectively) only vote for political parties as a whole and thus have no influence on the (party-supplied) order in which party candidates are elected. ... The DHondt method (equivalent to Jeffersons method) is a highest averages method for allocating seats in party-list proportional representation. ...