Monmouth (National Assembly for Wales constituency)
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Welsh Assembly county constituency | |
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Monmouth shown as one of the 40 Welsh Assembly constituencies |
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Created: | 1999 |
Electoral region: | South Wales East |
AM: | Nick Ramsay Nick Ramsay Nick Ramsay is a British Conservative politician who has been a Member of the Welsh Assembly since 2007. He currently represents the constituency of Monmouth.-Early life:... |
Party: | Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House... |
Monmouth is a constituency
United Kingdom constituencies
In the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly.Within the United Kingdom there are now five bodies with members elected by constituencies:...
of the National Assembly for Wales
National Assembly for Wales
The National Assembly for Wales is a devolved assembly with power to make legislation in Wales. The Assembly comprises 60 members, who are known as Assembly Members, or AMs...
. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of eight constituencies in the South Wales East
South Wales East (National Assembly for Wales constituency)
South Wales East is an electoral region of the National Assembly for Wales, consisting of eight constituencies. The region elects 12 members, eight directly elected constituency members and four additional members...
electoral region, which elects four additional members
Additional Member System
The Additional Member System is the term used in the United Kingdom for the mixed member proportional representation voting system used in Scotland, Wales and the London Assembly....
, in addition to eight constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation
Proportional representation
Proportional representation is a concept in voting systems used to elect an assembly or council. PR means that the number of seats won by a party or group of candidates is proportionate to the number of votes received. For example, under a PR voting system if 30% of voters support a particular...
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 Monmouth Westminster constituencyMonmouth (UK Parliament constituency)
Monmouth is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post of election...
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The other seven constituencies of the South Wales East electoral region are Blaenau Gwent
Blaenau Gwent (National Assembly for Wales constituency)
Blaenau Gwent is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election...
, Caerphilly
Caerphilly (National Assembly for Wales constituency)
Caerphilly is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election...
, Islwyn
Islwyn (National Assembly for Wales constituency)
Islwyn is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of eight constituencies in the South Wales East electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to eight...
, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney (National Assembly for Wales constituency)
Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election...
, Newport East
Newport East (National Assembly for Wales constituency)
Newport East is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election...
, Newport West
Newport West (National Assembly for Wales constituency)
Newport West is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election...
and Torfaen
Torfaen (National Assembly for Wales constituency)
Torfaen is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of eight constituencies in the South Wales East electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to eight...
.
Voting
In general electionGeneral election
In a parliamentary political system, a general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are chosen. The term is usually used to refer to elections held for a nation's primary legislative body, as distinguished from by-elections and local elections.The term...
s for the National Assembly for Wales, each voter has two votes. The first vote may be used to vote for a candidate to become the Assembly Member 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
Closed list describes the variant of party-list proportional representation where voters can only vote for political parties as a whole and thus have no influence on the party-supplied order in which party candidates are elected...
of candidates. Additional member seats are allocated from the lists by the d'Hondt method
D'Hondt method
The d'Hondt method is a highest averages method for allocating seats in party-list proportional representation. The method described is named after Belgian mathematician Victor D'Hondt who described it in 1878...
, with constituency results being taken into account in the allocation.
Members of the National Assembly for Wales
Election | Member | Party | |
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1999-2007 National Assembly for Wales election, 2007 The 2007 National Assembly election was held on Thursday 3 May 2007 to elect members to the National Assembly for Wales. It was the third general election. On the same day local elections in England and Scotland, and the Scottish Parliament election took place... |
David Davies | Conservative Welsh Conservative Party The Welsh Conservatives & Unionists , informally the Welsh Conservatives or Welsh Tories, are the part of the Conservative Party which operates in Wales... |
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2007 National Assembly for Wales election, 2007 The 2007 National Assembly election was held on Thursday 3 May 2007 to elect members to the National Assembly for Wales. It was the third general election. On the same day local elections in England and Scotland, and the Scottish Parliament election took place... -present |
Nick Ramsay Nick Ramsay Nick Ramsay is a British Conservative politician who has been a Member of the Welsh Assembly since 2007. He currently represents the constituency of Monmouth.-Early life:... |
Conservative Welsh Conservative Party The Welsh Conservatives & Unionists , informally the Welsh Conservatives or Welsh Tories, are the part of the Conservative Party which operates in Wales... |
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