Monmouth (Senedd constituency)
Senedd constituency (1999–2026)
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Monmouth (Welsh: Mynwy) 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 East electoral region, which elected four additional members (in addition to the eight constituency members) to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
| Monmouth Mynwy | |
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| Former Senedd constituency for the Senedd | |
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| Former Senedd constituency | |
| Created | 1999 |
| Abolished | 2026 |
| Party | Conservative |
| MS | Peter Fox |
| Preserved county | Monmouthshire |
Boundaries
The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Monmouth UK Parliament constituency.
The other seven constituencies of the South Wales East electoral region were Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Islwyn, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Newport East, Newport West and Torfaen.
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
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | David Davies | Conservative | |
| 2007 | Nick Ramsay | Conservative | |
| March 2021[1] | Independent | ||
| 2021 | Peter Fox | Conservative | |
Results
Elections in the 2020s
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| Conservative | Peter Fox | 15,332 | 42.7 | -0.6 | 13,643 | 38.2 | +1.0 | |
| Labour | Catrin Maby | 11,487 | 32.0 | +5.1 | 10,562 | 29.6 | +4.0 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Hugh Kocan | 2,085 | 5.8 | ±0.0 | 3,003 | 8.4 | -0.1 | |
| Green | Ian Chandler | 2,000 | 5.6 | +2.7 | 2,938 | 8.2 | +4.3 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Jo Watkins | 1,892 | 5.3 | +0.6 | 2,043 | 5.7 | -0.3 | |
| Independent | Nick Ramsay[a] | 1,293 | 3.6 | N/A | ||||
| Abolish | Mark Reckless[b] | 1,174 | 3.3 | New | 2,065 | 5.8 | -0.1 | |
| Reform | Susan Boucher | 349 | 1.0 | New | 334 | 0.9 | New | |
| Freedom Alliance (UK) | Elspeth Hill | 181 | 0.5 | New | 186 | 0.5 | New | |
| Gwlad | Laurence Williams | 90 | 0.3 | New | 169 | 0.5 | New | |
| UKIP | 549 | 1.5 | -10.3 | |||||
| Propel | 103 | 0.3 | New | |||||
| Communist | 76 | 0.2 | ±0.0 | |||||
| TUSC | 25 | 0.1 | -0.1 | |||||
| Majority | 3,845 | 10.7 | −5.7 | |||||
| Turnout | 35,883 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | |||||||
Notes
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Regional Ballot void votes: 265. Want of an Official Mark (0), Voting for more than ONE party or individual candidate (49), Writing or mark by which the Voter could be identified (0), Unmarked or Void for uncertainty (216)
Elections in the 2010s
| Party | Candidate | Constituency[3] | Regional[4] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| Conservative | Nick Ramsay | 13,585 | 43.3 | −7.0 | 11,604 | 37.2 | -5.1 | |
| Labour | Catherine Fookes | 8,438 | 26.9 | −3.0 | 7,998 | 25.6 | -1.6 | |
| UKIP | Tim Price | 3,092 | 9.8 | New | 3,668 | 11.8 | +6.8 | |
| Independent | Debby Blakebrough | 1,932 | 6.2 | New | ||||
| Plaid Cymru | Jonathan Clark | 1,824 | 5.8 | −1.7 | 2,646 | 8.5 | +2.2 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Veronica German | 1,474 | 4.7 | −5.1 | 1,872 | 6.0 | -1.8 | |
| Green | Chris Were | 910 | 2.9 | New | 1,202 | 3.9 | -0.4 | |
| English Democrat | Stephen Morris | 146 | 0.5 | −2.0 | ||||
| Abolish | 1,853 | 5.9 | New | |||||
| Monster Raving Loony | 172 | 0.6 | New | |||||
| TUSC | 76 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| Communist | 67 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |||||
| National Front | 44 | 0.1 | New | |||||
| Majority | 5,147 | 16.4 | −4.0 | |||||
| Turnout | 31,401 | 48.9 | +2.8 | |||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | |||||||
| Party | Candidate | Constituency[5] | Regional[6] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| Conservative | Nick Ramsay | 15,087 | 50.3 | −1.7 | 12,717 | 42.3 | -3.9 | |
| Labour | Mark Whitcutt[7] | 8,970 | 29.9 | +6.5 | 8,173 | 27.2 | +6.6 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Janet Ellard | 2,937 | 9.8 | −4.9 | 2,361 | 7.8 | -3.5 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Fiona Cross[8] | 2,263 | 7.5 | +0.4 | 1,891 | 6.3 | +0.4 | |
| English Democrat | Steve Uncles | 744 | 2.5 | −0.2 | 935 | 3.1 | +1.0 | |
| UKIP | 1,560 | 5.2 | +1.5 | |||||
| Green | 1,293 | 4.3 | +0.1 | |||||
| BNP | 499 | 1.7 | -1.3 | |||||
| Socialist Labour | 331 | 1.1 | -0.3 | |||||
| Welsh Christian | 252 | 0.8 | +0.1 | |||||
| Communist | 75 | 0.2 | +0.2 | |||||
| Majority | 6,117 | 20.4 | −8.2 | |||||
| Turnout | 30,001 | 46.1 | −0.8 | |||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | −4.2 | ||||||
Regional ballots rejected at the count: 226[9]
Elections in the 2000s
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional[10] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| Conservative | Nick Ramsay | 15,389 | 52.0 | −5.5 | 13,692 | 46.2 | -0.6 | |
| Labour | Richard Clark | 6,920 | 23.4 | −3.5 | 6,104 | 20.6 | -4.3 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Jacqui A. Sullivan | 4,359 | 14.7 | +4.0 | 3,357 | 11.3 | +0.5 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Jonathan Clark | 2,093 | 7.1 | +2.2 | 1,761 | 5.9 | +0.1 | |
| English Democrat | Robert Abrams | 804 | 2.7 | New | 633 | 2.1 | New | |
| Green | 1,236 | 4.2 | -0.2 | |||||
| UKIP | 1,099 | 3.7 | +0.2 | |||||
| BNP | 874 | 3.0 | +1.2 | |||||
| Socialist Labour | 402 | 1.4 | -0.1 | |||||
| Welsh Christian Party | 216 | 0.7 | New | |||||
| Independent – Colin Hobbs | 186 | 0.6 | New | |||||
| CPA | 45 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| Communist | 2 | 0.0 | New | |||||
| Majority | 8,469 | 28.6 | −2.0 | |||||
| Turnout | 29,565 | 46.9 | +2.7 | |||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | −1.0 | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional[11] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| Conservative | David Thomas Charles Davies | 15,989 | 57.5 | +16.6 | 12,969 | 46.8 | +6.4 | |
| Labour | Siân James | 7,479 | 26.9 | −5.4 | 6,901 | 24.9 | -5.1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Alison Willott | 2,973 | 10.7 | −3.9 | 2,988 | 10.8 | -3.1 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Stephen V. Thomas | 1,355 | 4.9 | −1.3 | 1,599 | 5.8 | -5.4 | |
| Green | 1,206 | 4.4 | Unknown | |||||
| UKIP | 964 | 3.5 | Unknown | |||||
| BNP | 491 | 1.8 | New | |||||
| Socialist Labour | 408 | 1.5 | Unknown | |||||
| Cymru Annibynnol | 111 | 0.4 | New | |||||
| ProLife Alliance | 82 | 0.3 | New | |||||
| Majority | 8,510 | 30.6 | +22.0 | |||||
| Turnout | 27,796 | 44.2 | −6.9 | |||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +11.0 | ||||||
2003 Electorate: 62,451
Regional ballots rejected: 294
Elections in the 1990s
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| Conservative | David Thomas Charles Davies | 12,950 | 40.9 | N/A | 12,771 | 40.4 | N/A | |
| Labour | Cherry R.P. Short | 10,238 | 32.3 | N/A | 9,498 | 30.0 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrats | Chris P. Lines | 4,639 | 14.6 | N/A | 4,399 | 13.9 | N/A | |
| Plaid Cymru | Marc Hubbard | 1,964 | 6.2 | N/A | 3,528 | 11.2 | N/A | |
| Tourism and Farmers Party of Wales | Anthony Carrington | 1,911 | 6.0 | N/A | ||||
| United Socialist | Unknown | Unknown | N/A | |||||
| Others | 1,431 | 4.5 | N/A | |||||
| Majority | 2,712 | 8.6 | N/A | |||||
| Turnout | 31,702 | 51.1 | N/A | |||||
| Conservative win (new seat) | ||||||||