Pontypridd was a constituency of the Senedd. It elected one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. It was also one of eight constituencies in the South Wales Central electoral region that elected four additional members (along with 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 Pontypridd Westminster constituency. It was 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, Rhondda 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 Jane Davidson Labour 2011 Mick Antoniw Labour
Elections Elections in the 2020s
Elections in the 2010s
Regional ballots rejected at the count: 147
Elections in the 2000s
2003 Electorate: 63,204 Regional ballots rejected: Not reported
Elections in the 1990s
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