Rhondda was a constituency of the Senedd. It elected one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. Also, it was one of eight constituencies in the South Wales Central electoral region, which elected 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 Rhondda Westminster constituency. It was entirely within the preserved county of Mid Glamorgan.
The other seven constituencies of the region were Cardiff Central, Cardiff North, Cardiff South and Penarth, Cardiff West, Cynon Valley, Pontypridd and Vale of Glamorgan.
Voting In general elections for the Senedd, each voter had two votes. The first vote was used to vote for a candidate to become the Member of the Senedd for the voter's constituency, elected by the first past the post system. The second vote was used to vote for a regional closed party list of candidates. Additional member seats were allocated from the lists by the d'Hondt method, with constituency results being taken into account in the allocation.
Assembly Members and Members of the Senedd ElectionMemberPartyPortrait 1999 Geraint Davies Plaid Cymru 2003 Leighton Andrews Labour 2016 Leanne Wood Plaid Cymru 2021Buffy WilliamsLabour
Elections Elections in the 2020s
Elections in the 2010s
Regional ballots rejected at the count: 112
Elections in the 2000s
2003 Electorate: 50,463 Regional ballots rejected: 394
Elections in the 1990s
1999 Electorate: 55,266
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