Mid and West Wales (Senedd electoral region)

Mid and West Wales
Canolbarth a Gorllewin Cymru

Senedd electoral region
Mid and West Wales shown within Wales
Created 1999
Current representation
Plaid Cymru	4 MSs
Conservative	4 MSs
Labour	3 MSs
Liberal Democrats	1 MS
Constituencies 1. Brecon and Radnorshire 2. Carmarthen East and Dinefwr 3. Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire 4. Ceredigion 5. Dwyfor Meirionnydd 6. Llanelli 7. Montgomeryshire 8. Preseli Pembrokeshire
Preserved counties Dyfed Gwynedd (part) Powys

Mid and West Wales (Welsh: Canolbarth a Gorllewin Cymru) is an electoral region of the Senedd, consisting of eight constituencies. The region elects twelve members, eight directly elected constituency members and four additional members. The electoral region was first used in the 1999 Welsh Assembly election, when the National Assembly for Wales was created.

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

Map of current boundaries

As created in 1999, the region covered the whole of the preserved county of Dyfed, most of the preserved county of Powys and parts of the preserved counties of Clwyd and Gwynedd. Other parts of Powys, Clwyd and Gwynedd were within the North Wales electoral region.

However, boundaries changed for the 2007 Welsh Assembly election and the region now covers all of the preserved county of Dyfed, all of the preserved county of Powys and part of the preserved county of Gwynedd. The rest of Gwynedd is in the North Wales region.

The constituencies have the names and boundaries of constituencies of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster). For Westminster election purposes, however, there are no electoral regions, and constituency boundary changes became effective for the 2010 United Kingdom general election.

The region is geographically the largest of the five electoral regions in Wales, being larger in area than the other four regions combined. It consists almost entirely of sparsely populated rural areas, with the exception of the tinplate- and steel-producing town of Llanelli in the south.^[1] The Welsh language is widely spoken.

N.B. This table is for presentation purposes only

2021 Senedd election: Mid and West Wales
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	Plaid Cymru	Cefin Campbell, Helen Mary Jones, Elwyn Vaughan, Cris Tomos, Grenville Ham, Elin Tracy Jones, Angharad Shaw, Mabon ap Gwynfor, Elin Jones, Adam Price	65,460	27.5	1.2
	Conservative	Tomos Davies, Amanda Jenner, Elizabeth Lesnianski, Aled Davies, Charles Evans, Rachel Buckler, Brian Murphy	63,827	26.8	6.2
	Labour	Eluned Morgan, Joyce Watson, Helen Taylor, Ben Gwalchmai	61,733	25.9	6.5
	Liberal Democrats	Jane Dodds, William Powell, Alistair Cameron, Stephen Churchman, Cadan ap Tomos, Alison Alexander	16,181	6.8	4.1
	Green	Emily Durrant, Tomos Barlow, Peter (Harry) Hayfield, Marc Pearton-Scale	10,545	4.4	0.6
	Abolish	Claire Mills, Ray Wood, Jeremy Pugh, Benjamin Pugh, Bryan Craven, Sara Canning	8,073	3.4	1.6
	UKIP	Jonathon Riley, Howard Lillyman, Paul Dowson, Kenneth Rees	3,731	1.6	10.0
	Reform UK	Gethin James, Roger Lewis, Louise Hughes, Peter Prosser, Gareth Beert	2,582	1.1	1.1
	Propel	Dylan Bullard, Gretta Marshall, Peter Read, Sara Thomas	1,428	0.6	0.6
	Christian	Jeffrey Green, Barbara Hill, Louise Wynne Jones, Sue Green	1,366	0.6	0.1
	Gwlad	Siân Caiach, Gwyn Wigley Evans, Dennis Morris, Samuel Holwill	1,303	0.5	0.5
	Freedom Alliance	Michelle Murray, Jason Smith, Darryl Bickler	1,181	0.5	0.5
	Communist	Claudia Cannon, Catrin Ashton, Graham Morgan, David Wood	589	0.2	0.0
	TUSC	Carys Phillips	257	0.1	0.1

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