South Wales East () was an electoral region of the Senedd, consisting of eight constituencies. The region elected 12 members, eight directly elected constituency members and four additional members. The electoral region was first used in 1999, when the National Assembly for Wales was created.

Each constituency elected one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post electoral system, and the region as a whole elected four additional or top-up Members of the Senedd, to create a degree of proportional representation. The additional member seats were allocated from closed lists by the D'Hondt method, with constituency results being taken into account in the allocation.

County boundaries

The region covered the whole of the preserved county of Gwent and part of the preserved county of Mid Glamorgan. The rest of Mid Glamorgan was mostly within the South Wales Central electoral region and partly within the South Wales West region.

Electoral region profile The region was one of contrasts; it included the city of Newport, along with the town of Caerphilly. It also took in the working-class former iron town of Merthyr Tydfil, one of the most deprived towns in the UK, but also rural Monmouthshire, one of the most affluent parts of Wales.

Constituencies The eight constituencies had the names and boundaries of constituencies of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster):

Constituency 2021 result Preserved counties Blaenau Gwent Alun DaviesLabour Entirely within Gwent Caerphilly Hefin DavidLabour Entirely within Gwent Islwyn Rhianon PassmoreLabour Entirely within Gwent Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney Dawn BowdenLabour Partly Gwent partly Mid Glamorgan Monmouth Peter FoxConservative Entirely within Gwent Newport East John GriffithsLabour & Co-operative Entirely within Gwent Newport West Jayne BryantLabour Entirely within Gwent Torfaen Lynne NeagleLabour Entirely within Gwent

Assembly members and Members of the Senedd

Constituency AMs and MSs Term ElectionBlaenau GwentCaerphillyIslwynMerthyr Tydfiland RhymneyMonmouthNewport EastNewport WestTorfaen1st1999Peter Law(Lab)(later Ind)Ron Davies(Lab)Brian Hancock(PC)Huw Lewis(Lab)David TC Davies(Con)John Griffiths(Lab)Rosemary Butler(Lab)Lynne Neagle(Lab)2nd2003Jeffrey Cuthbert(Lab)Irene James(Lab)20052006Trish Law(PV)3rd2007Nick Ramsay(Con)4th2011Alun Davies(Lab)Gwyn Price(Lab)5th2016Hefin David(Lab)Rhianon Passmore(Lab)Dawn Bowden(Lab)Jayne Bryant(Lab)6th2021Peter Fox(Con)

Regional list AMs and MSs

N.B. This table is for presentation purposes only

Term Election AM / MS AM / MS AM / MS AM / MS 1st 1999 Phil Williams(PC) William Graham(Con) Jocelyn Davies(PC) Mike German(LD) 2nd 2003 Laura Anne Jones(Con) 3rd 2007 Mohammad Asghar(PC)(later Con) 2009 2010 Veronica German(LD) 4th 2011 Lindsay Whittle(PC) 5th 2016 Mark Reckless(UKIP)(later Con, Ind, BREX then Abolish)David Rowlands(UKIP)(later BREX, then Ind.) Steffan Lewis(PC) 2017 2019 Delyth Jewell(PC) 2020 Laura Anne Jones(Con)(later Reform) 6th 2021 Natasha Asghar(Con) Peredur Owen Griffiths(PC)2025

2021 Senedd election

2021 Senedd election additional members Party Constituencyseats List votes (vote %) D'Hondtentitlement Additionalmemberselected Total memberselected Deviationfrom D'Hondtentitlement 7 85,988 (41.05%) 607+1 1 52,323 (24.98%) 423-1 0 30,530 (14.57%) 2220 0 9,995 (4.77%) 0 0 0 0 0 9,950 (4.75%) 0 0 0 0 0 7,045 (3.36%) 0 0 0 0 0 4,101 (1.96%) 0000 0 2,756 (1.32%) 0000 Gwlad 0 1,841 (0.88%) 0 0 0 0 No More Lockdowns 0 1,496 (0.71%) 0 0 0 0 Propel 0 924 (0.44%) 0000 0 606 (0.29%) 0 0 0 0 0 362 (0.17%) 0 0 0 0

Regional MSs elected 2021 Party Name Delyth Jewell Laura Anne Jones Natasha Asghar Peredur Owen Griffiths

2016 Welsh Assembly election additional members Party Constituencyseats List votes (vote %) D'Hondtentitlement Additionalmemberselected Totalmemberselected DeviationfromD'Hondtentitlement 7 74,424 (38.3%) 607+1 0 34,524 (17.8%) 2220 1 33,318 (17.2%) 2120 0 29,626 (15.3%) 211-1 0 7,870 (4.1%) 0 0 0 0 0 6,784 (3.5%) 0 0 0 0 0 4,831 (2.5%) 0 0 0 0 0 1,115 (0.6%) 0 0 0 0 0 618 (0.3%) 0 0 0 0 0 492 (0.2%) 0 0 0 0 0 429 (0.2%) 0 0 0 0

Regional AMs elected 2016 Party Name UKIPMark RecklessUKIP David RowlandsConservative Mohammad Asghar Steffan Lewis

2011 Welsh Assembly election additional members Party Constituencyseats List votes (vote %) D'Hondtentitlement Additionalmemberselected Totalmemberselected DeviationfromD'Hondtentitlement 7 82,699 (45.7%) 7 0 7 0 1 35,459 (19.6%) 3 2 3 0 0 21,851 (12.1%) 2 2 2 0 0 10,798 (6.0%) 0 0 0 0 0 9,526 (5.3%) 0 0 0 0 0 6,485 (3.6%) 0 0 0 0 0 4,857 (2.7%) 0 0 0 0 0 4,427 (2.4%) 0 0 0 0 0 2,441 (1.3%) 0 0 0 0 0 1,904 (1.1%) 0 0 0 0 0 578 (0.3%) 0 0 0 0

Regional AMs elected 2011 Party Name Mohammad Asghar William Graham Jocelyn Davies Lindsay Whittle

2007 Welsh Assembly election additional members Source:

Party Constituencyseats List votes (vote %) D'Hondtentitlement Additionalmemberselected Totalmemberselected DeviationfromD'Hondtentitlement 6 67,998 (35.8%) 6 0 6 0 1 37,935 (20.0%) 3 1 2 −1 0 25,915 (13.6%) 2 2 2 0 0 20,947 (11.0%) 1 1 1 0 0 8,940 (4.7%) 0 0 0 0 0 8,725 (4.6%) 0 0 0 0 0 5,414 (2.8%) 0 0 0 0 1 4,876 (2.6%) 0 0 1 +1 0 3,694 (1.9%) 0 0 0 0 0 2,498 (1.3%) 0 0 0 0 0 1,655 (0.9%) 0 0 0 0 0 979 (0.5%) 0 0 0 0 0 489 (0.3%) 0 0 0 0

On 8 December 2009, Mohammad Asghar, Plaid Cymru's list member for South Wales East, defected to the Conservative Party. This gave Plaid one AM, and the Conservatives two.

2003 Welsh Assembly additional members Source:

Party Constituencyseats List votes (vote %) D'Hondtentitlement Additionalmemberselected Totalmemberselected DeviationfromD'Hondtentitlement 7 76,522 (45.08%) 7 0 7 0 1 34,231 (20.17%) 3 2 3 0 0 21,384 (12.60%) 1 1 1 0 0 17,661 (10.41%) 1 1 1 0 0 5,949 (3.50%) 0 0 0 0 0 5,291 (3.12%) 0 0 0 0 0 3,695 (2.18%) 0 0 0 0 0 3,210 (1.89%) 0 0 0 0 Cymru Annibynnol 0 1,226 (0.72%) 0 0 0 0 0 562 (0.33%) 0 0 0 0

1999 Welsh Assembly additional members Party Constituencyseats List votes (vote %) D'Hondtentitlement Additionalmemberselected Totalmemberselected DeviationfromD'Hondtentitlement 6 83,953 (41.45%) 6 0 6 0 1 49,139 (24.26%) 3 2 3 0 1 33,947 (16.76%) 2 1 2 0 0 24,757 (12.22%) 1 1 1 0 0 4,879 (2.41%) 0 0 0 0 0 4,055 (2.00%) 0 0 0 0 0 903 (0.45%) 0 0 0 0 0 898 (0.44%) 0 0 0 0

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