Alyn and Deeside

Welsh Assembly county constituency
Alyn and Deeside shown as one of the 40 Welsh Assembly constituencies
Created:	1999
Electoral region:	North Wales
AM:	Carl Sargeant
Party:	Labour
Preserved county:	Clwyd

Alyn and Deeside is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member 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. 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... 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 Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left 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 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. ... 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 an electoral system delivering 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 was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Alyn and Deeside Westminster constituency. It is entirely within the preserved county of Clwyd. For the 2007 Assembly election, there will be minor changes to the constituency's boundaries. For Westminster purposes, the same boundary changes will become effective at the next United Kingdom general election. First-Past-the-Post results Additional Members System Results ... Alyn and Deeside is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of 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. ... 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 next United Kingdom general election must be held on or before 3 June, 2010. ...

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. Wrexham is a constituency represented in the National Assembly for Wales. ... Aberconwy will be a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales, created for the 2007 Assembly election. ... Wrexham is a constituency represented in 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 is a highest averages method for allocating seats in party-list proportional representation. ...