North Wales () is an electoral region of the

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, consisting of nine

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. The region elects thirteen members, nine directly elected constituency members and four additional members. The electoral region was first used in the 1999 Welsh Assembly election, when the National Assembly for Wales was created. Each constituency elects one Member of the Senedd by the

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electoral system, and the region as a whole elects four additional or top-up Members of the Senedd, to create a degree of

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. The additional member seats are allocated from

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s by the

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

County and Westminster boundaries

As created in 1999, the region covered the most of the

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of Clwyd, part of the preserved county of

Gwynedd Gwynedd (; ) is a county and preserved county (latter with differing boundaries; includes the Isle of Anglesey) in the north-west of Wales. It shares borders with Powys, Conwy County Borough, Denbighshire, Anglesey over the Menai Strait, and C ...

, and part of the preserved county of

Powys Powys (; ) is a Local government in Wales#Principal areas, county and Preserved counties of Wales, preserved county in Wales. It is named after the Kingdom of Powys which was a Welsh succession of states, successor state, petty kingdom and princi ...

. Other parts of these preserved counties were within the

Mid and West Wales Mid and West Wales or Mid and South West Wales refers to an ambiguous region of Wales that is sometimes used, consisting broadly of the preserved counties of Dyfed and Powys, sometimes Swansea and sometimes parts of Gwynedd. It is also used ...

electoral region. For the 2007 Welsh Assembly election, however, boundaries changed, and the region now covers all of the preserved county of Clwyd and part of the preserved county of Gwynedd. The rest of Gwynedd is in the Mid and West Wales region. The Senedd constituencies have the names of constituencies of the

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of the

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(

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). For Westminster election purposes, however, there are no electoral regions, and constituency boundary changes became effective for the

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Electoral region profile

The region is a mix of

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and

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areas, with the population higher in the east, where can be found the region's largest town,

Wrexham Wrexham ( ; cy, Wrecsam; ) is a city and the administrative centre of Wrexham County Borough in Wales. It is located between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley, near the border with Cheshire in England. Historically in the count ...

, and the working-class conurbations of

Deeside Deeside ( cy, Glannau Dyfrdwy) is the name given to a predominantly industrial conurbation of towns and villages in Flintshire and Cheshire on the Wales–England border lying near the canalised stretch of the River Dee that flows from nei ...

. The western areas, including the Isle of

Anglesey Anglesey (; cy, (Ynys) Môn ) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales. It forms a principal area known as the Isle of Anglesey, that includes Holy Island across the narrow Cymyran Strait and some islets and skerries. Anglesey island ...

(Ynys Môn), are largely rural. Although Anglesey and

are home to large numbers of

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speakers, the language is not widely spoken in the north-east.

Constituencies

Assembly members and Members of the Senedd

Constituency AMs and MSs

Regional list AMs and MSs

N.B. This table is for presentation purposes only

2021 Senedd election

2021 Senedd election additional members

(The fourth regional seat was allocated to the Conservatives rather than to Plaid Cymru by a margin of only 21 votes).

Regional MSs elected in 2021

2016 Welsh Assembly election additional members

Regional AMs elected in 2016

2011 Welsh Assembly election additional members

Regional AMs elected 2011

† Resigned as AM following her election to the

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on 7 May 2015; replaced by

Janet Haworth Janet Elizabeth Haworth is a Welsh Conservative politician who was a Member of the Welsh Assembly (AM) for the North Wales Region between 2015 and 2016. Haworth ran a guest house from 2005 with her partner, Dennis Oliver. She worked for Shel ...

from 27 May 2015.

2007 Welsh Assembly election additional members

2003 Welsh Assembly election additional members

Former constituencies

1999 to 2007

1999 Welsh Assembly election additional members

Notes

References

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