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county constituency In the United Kingdom (UK), each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one member to the House of Commons. Within the United Kingdom there are five bodies with members elected by electoral districts called " constitue ...

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South Wales East South Wales East () is an electoral region of the Senedd, consisting of eight constituencies. The region elects 12 members, eight directly elected constituency members and four additional members. The electoral region was first used in 1999, w ...

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Welsh Labour Welsh Labour ( cy, Llafur Cymru) is the branch of the United Kingdom Labour Party in Wales and the largest party in modern Welsh politics. Welsh Labour and its forebears won a plurality of the Welsh vote at every UK general election since 192 ...

Newport East ( cy, Dwyrain Casnewydd) is a constituency of the Senedd. It elects one Member of the Senedd by the

first past the post In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast thei ...

method of election. Also, however, it is one of eight constituencies in the

electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to eight constituency members, to produce a degree of

proportional representation Proportional representation (PR) refers to a type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to geographical (e.g. states, regions) and political divis ...

for the region as a whole.

Boundaries

The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the same boundaries as the

Newport East (UK Parliament constituency) Newport East () is a constituency in the city of Newport, South Wales, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Jessica Morden of the Labour Party. Boundaries 1983–1997: The Borough of Newport wards 2, 4 ...

. The other seven constituencies of the South Wales East electoral region are Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly,

Islwyn The Borough of Islwyn was one of five local government districts of Gwent from 1974 to 1996. History The borough was formed in 1974 as a local government district of Gwent. It covered the whole area of three former districts and part of a fou ...

, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Monmouth, Newport West and

Torfaen Torfaen (; cy, Torfaen ) is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. Torfaen is bordered by the county of Monmouthshire to the east, the city of Newport to the south, and the county boroughs of Caerphilly and Blaenau Gwent to the south-w ...

Voting

In general elections for the Senedd, each voter has two votes. The first vote may be 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 may be used to vote for a regional

closed party list Closed list describes the variant of party-list systems where voters can effectively only vote for political parties as a whole; thus they have no influence on the party-supplied order in which party candidates are elected. If voters had some in ...

of candidates. Additional member seats are allocated from the lists by the

d'Hondt method The D'Hondt method, also called the Jefferson method or the greatest divisors method, is a method for allocating seats in parliaments among federal states, or in party-list proportional representation systems. It belongs to the class of highest ...

, with constituency results being taken into account in the allocation.

Members of the Senedd

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

Regional Ballot void votes: 175. Want of an Official Mark (0), Voting for more than ONE party or individual candidate (70), Writing or mark by which the Voter could be identified (0), Unmarked or Void for uncertainty (105)

Elections in the 2010s

Regional ballots rejected at the count: 157

Elections in the 2000s

2003 Electorate: 56,563
Regional ballots rejected: 239

Elections in the 1990s

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Newport East (National Assembly For Wales Constituency) Politics of Newport, Wales Senedd constituencies in the South Wales East electoral region 1999 establishments in Wales Constituencies established in 1999