North Wales (Senedd electoral region)

North Wales
Gogledd Cymru

Senedd electoral region
North Wales shown within Wales
Created 1999
Current representation
Labour	5 MSs
Conservative	5 MSs
Plaid Cymru	3 MSs
Constituencies 1. Aberconwy 2. Alyn and Deeside 3. Arfon 4. Clwyd South 5. Clwyd West 6. Delyn 7. Vale of Clwyd 8. Wrexham 9. Ynys Môn
Preserved counties Clwyd Gwynedd (part)

North Wales (Welsh: Gogledd Cymru) is an electoral region of the Senedd, consisting of nine constituencies. The region elects thirteen members, nine 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 most of the preserved county of Clwyd, part of the preserved county of Gwynedd, and part of the preserved county of Powys. Other parts of these preserved counties were within the Mid and West Wales electoral region. For the 2007 Welsh Assembly election, however, boundaries changed, and the region now covers all of the preserved county of Clwyd and part of the preserved county of Gwynedd. The rest of Gwynedd is in the Mid and West Wales region.

The Senedd constituencies have the names 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 a mix of rural and urban areas, with the population higher in the east, where can be found the region's largest town, Wrexham, and the working-class conurbations of Deeside. The western areas, including the Isle of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), are largely rural. Although Anglesey and Gwynedd are home to large numbers of Welsh speakers, the language is not widely spoken in the north-east.

N.B. This table is for presentation purposes only

2021 Senedd election: North Wales
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	Labour	Carolyn Thomas, Andrew Short, Diane Green, Ryan O'Gorman	73,120	32.3	4.2
	Conservative	Mark Isherwood, Sam Rowlands, Barbara Hughes, Gareth Davies, Abigail Mainon, Jeremy Kent, Gonul Daniels, Lyn Hudson, Anthony Thomas	67,544	29.9	7.7
	Plaid Cymru	Llyr Gruffydd, Carrie Harper, Elin Jones, Paul Rowlinson, Catrin Wager, Aaron Wynne, Jack Morris, Glenn Swingler, Trystan Lewis	53,950	23.9	0.6
	Abolish	Richard Suchorzewski, Jonathon Harrington, William Ashton, Craig Search, Euan McGivern, Nicholas Williams	7,960	3.5	1.1
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Twells, David Wilkins, Timothy Sly, Calum Davies, Andrew Parkhurst	7,160	3.2	1.4
	Green	Iolo Jones, Duncan Rees, Adam Turner, Linda Rogers	6,586	2.9	0.6
	UKIP	Felix Aubel, Jeanie Bassford-Barton, Mary Davies, Jeanette Bassford-Barton, Sebastian Ross	3,573	1.6	10.9
	Reform UK	Nathan Gill, Peter Dain, Nancy Eno, Charles Dodman, Emmett Jenner	2,374	1.0	1.0
	Gwlad	Phil Roberts, Aled Job, Rhydian Hughes, Aaron Norton, Anthony Williams	1,228	0.5	0.5
	Freedom Alliance	Simon Foster, Peter Jones, Miriam Finch, Mark Finchr	1,186	0.5	0.5
	Communist	Trevor Jones, Jayne Evans, David Morgan, Glyn Davies	557	0.2	0.1
	Propel	Jacqui Hurst, Robert Redhead, Nia Marshall Lloyd, Alan Ennis	415	0.2	0.2
	Independent	Michelle Brown	382	0.2	0.2
	TUSC	Michelle Francis	164	0.1	0.1

(The fourth regional seat was allocated to the Conservatives rather than to Plaid Cymru by a margin of only 21 votes).

† Resigned as AM following her election to the UK House of Commons on 7 May 2015; replaced by Janet Haworth from 27 May 2015.