Cardiff North (Senedd constituency)

Not to be confused with Cardiff North (UK Parliament constituency).

Cardiff North 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 eight constituencies in the South Wales Central electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to eight constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

Boundaries

The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Cardiff North Westminster constituency. It is entirely within the preserved county of South Glamorgan.

The other seven constituencies of the region are Cardiff Central, Cardiff South and Penarth, Cardiff West, Cynon Valley, Pontypridd, Rhondda and Vale of Glamorgan.

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
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1999 - 2007	Sue Essex	Labour Party
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	2007 - present	Jonathan Morgan	Conservative Party

Elections

Assembly Election 2007: Cardiff North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jonathan Morgan	15,253	45.3	+9.7
	Labour	Sophie Howe	10,409	30.9	-6.6
	Liberal Democrats	Ed Bridges	4,287	12.7	+0.2
	Plaid Cymru	Wyn Jones	2,491	7.4	-2.3
	UKIP	Dai Llewellyn	1,262	3.7	-1.0
Majority			4,844	14.4
Turnout			33,702	51.3	+8.3
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Assembly Election 2003: Cardiff North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sue Essex	10,413	37.5	-1.2
	Conservative	Jonathan Morgan	9,873	35.6	+4.2
	Liberal Democrats	John Dixon	3,474	12.5	-3.6
	Plaid Cymru	Wyn Jones	2,679	9.7	-4.1
	UKIP	Donald Hulston	1,295	4.7	+4.7
Majority			540	1.9	-5.4
Turnout			28,295	43.9	-7.7
	Labour hold		Swing

Assembly Election 1999: Cardiff North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sue Essex	12,198	38.7
	Conservative	Jonathan Morgan	9,894	31.4
	Liberal Democrats	Alastair Meikle	5,088	16.1
	Plaid Cymru	Colin Mann	4,337	14.8
Majority			2,304	7.3
Turnout			31,517	51.5
	Labour hold		Swing