DELYN (NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FOR WALES CONSTITUENCY)

'Delyn'

Welsh Assembly county constituency
Delyn
Delyn shown as one of the 40 Welsh Assembly constituencies
Created:	1999
Electoral region:	North Wales
AM:	Sandy Mewies
Party:	Labour
Preserved county:	Clwyd

'Delyn' 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 nine constituencies in the North Wales electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to nine constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

Contents

Boundaries

Voting

Assembly Members

Elections

Boundaries

The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Delyn Westminster constituency. It is entirely within the preserved county of Clwyd.
As created in 1999, the North Wales region includes the constituencies of Alyn and Deeside, Caernarfon, Clwyd West, Clwyd South, Conwy, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn. For the 2007 election the region will include Aberconwy, Alyn and Deeside, Arfon, Clwyd South, Clwyd West, Delyn, Vale of Clwyd, Wrexham and Ynys Môn.

Voting

In elections 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 of candidates. Additional member seats are allocated from the lists by the d'Hondt method, with constituency results being taken into account in the allocation.

Assembly Members

Period		Member	Party
	1999 - 2003	Alison Halford	Labour Party
	2003 - present	Sandy Mewies	Labour Party

Elections