- Conwy (National Assembly for Wales constituency)
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Not to be confused with Conwy (UK Parliament constituency).
Coordinates: 53°11′28″N 3°41′17″W / 53.191°N 3.688°W
Conwy Former Welsh Assembly county constituency 
Conwy shown as one of the 40
Welsh Assembly constituencies from 1999 to 2007Created: 1999 Abolished: 2007 Electoral region: North Wales Preserved counties: Clwyd and Gwynedd Conwy was a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales from 1999 to 2007. It elected one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election. It was also one of nine constituencies in the North Wales electoral region, which elected four additional members, in addition to nine constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
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Boundaries
The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Conwy Westminster constituency. It was partly within the preserved county of Clwyd and partly within the preserved county of Gwynedd.
The other eight constituencies of the region were Alyn and Deeside, Caernarfon, Clwyd South, Clwyd West, Delyn, Meirionnydd Nant Conwy, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn.
The Conwy constituency was replaced for the 2007 Assembly election. Its area became partly within the Arfon constituency, and partly within the Aberconwy constituency. Arfon is entirely within the preserved county of Gwynedd and Aberconwy is entirely within the preserved county of Clwyd. Both of these constituencies are in the North Wales electoral region. For Westminster purposes, the new constituency boundaries will be come effective for the 2010 United Kingdom general election.
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.
Assembly Members
Period Member Party 1999 - 2003 Gareth Jones Plaid Cymru 2003 - 2007 Denise Idris Jones Labour Party Elections
Assembly Election 2003: Conwy Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour Denise Idris Jones 6,467 30.9 +0.8 Plaid Cymru Gareth Jones 6,396 30.6 +0.0 Conservative Guto ap owain Bebb 5,152 24.6 +6.1 Liberal Democrat Graham Rees 2,914 13.9 -2.6 Majority 72 0.3 Turnout 21,059 38.7 -10.7 Labour gain from Plaid Cymru Swing Assembly Election 1999: Conwy Party Candidate Votes % ±% Plaid Cymru Gareth Jones 8,285 30.6 Labour Cath Sherrington 8,171 30.1 Conservative David Jones 5,006 18.5 Liberal Democrat Christine Humphreys 4,480 16.5 Independent Goronwy Edwards 1,160 4.3 Majority 114 0.5 Turnout 27,102 49.2 See also
Categories:- Former National Assembly for Wales constituencies in the North Wales electoral region
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