Newport East (Assembly constituency)

Not to be confused with Newport East (UK Parliament constituency).

Newport East

Welsh Assembly county constituency
Newport East shown as one of the 40 Welsh Assembly constituencies
Created:	1999
Electoral region:	South Wales East
AM:	John Griffiths
Party:	Labour Co-operative

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. Also, however, it is one of eight constituencies in the South Wales East electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to eight constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

Boundaries

The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the same name and boundaries of the Newport East Westminster constituency.

The other seven constituencies of the South Wales East electoral region are Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Islwyn, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Monmouth, Newport West and Torfaen.

Voting

In general 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.

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Welsh Assembly Election 2016: Newport East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Halliday
	Labour	John Griffiths
	UKIP	James Peterson
	Green	Peter Varley
Majority
Turnout

Welsh Assembly Election 2011: Newport East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	John Griffiths	9,888	50.8	+18.7
	Conservative	Nick Webb	4,500	23.1	+0.5
	Liberal Democrats	Ed Townsend	3,703	19.0	−8.7
	Plaid Cymru	Chris Paul	1,369	7.0	−1.5
Majority			5,388	27.7	+23.3
Turnout			19,460	35.5	−2.0
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

Elections in the 2000s

Welsh Assembly election 2007: Newport East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	John Griffiths	6,395	32.1	−12.5
	Liberal Democrat	Ed Townsend	5,520	27.7	+11.5
	Conservative	Peter Alan Fox	4,512	22.7	−1.7
	Plaid Cymru	Trefor Puw	1,696	8.5	−0.6
	Independent	James Douglas Harris	1,354	6.8	N/A
	English Democrats	Michael Thomas Martin Blundell	429	2.2	N/A
Majority			875	4.4	−16.0
Turnout			19,906	37.5	+7.1
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

Welsh Assembly election 2003: Newport East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	John Griffiths	7,621	44.7	−4.8
	Conservative	Matthew Evans	4,157	24.3	+1.5
	Liberal Democrat	Ed Townsend	2,768	16.2	+2.2
	Plaid Cymru	Mohammad Asghar	1,555	9.1	−4.7
	UKIP	Neal J. Reynolds	987	5.8	N/A
Majority			3,484	20.4	−6.2
Turnout			17,212	30.4	−5.4
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing	−3.2

Elections in the 1990s

Welsh Assembly election 1999: Newport East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	John Griffiths	9,497	49.4	N/A
	Conservative	Mark A. Major	4,368	22.8	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	Alistair R. Cameron	2,684	14.0	N/A
	Plaid Cymru	Christopher K. Holland	2,647	13.8	N/A
Majority			5,129	26.6	N/A
Turnout			19,214	35.4	N/A
	Labour Co-op win (new seat)