Ynys Môn is a
constituency
An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provi ...
of the
Senedd
The Senedd ( ; ), officially known as the Welsh Parliament in English and () in Welsh, is the devolved, unicameral legislature of Wales. A democratically elected body, Its role is to scrutinise the Welsh Government and legislate on devolve ...
. It elects one
Member of the Senedd
A member of the Senedd (MS; plural: ''MSs''; ; , plural: ) is a representative elected to the Senedd (Welsh Parliament; ). There are sixty members, with forty members chosen to represent individual Senedd constituency, Senedd constituencies, a ...
by the
first past the post
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method of election. Ynys Môn is also one of nine constituencies in the
North Wales
North Wales ( ) is a Regions of Wales, region of Wales, encompassing its northernmost areas. It borders mid Wales to the south, England to the east, and the Irish Sea to the north and west. The area is highly mountainous and rural, with Snowdon ...
electoral region, which elects four
additional members, in addition to nine constituency members, to produce a degree of
proportional representation
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for the region as a whole.
It was represented from
1999
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by
Ieuan Wyn Jones, the former leader of
Plaid Cymru
Plaid Cymru ( ; , ; officially Plaid Cymru – the Party of Wales, and often referred to simply as Plaid) is a centre-left, Welsh nationalist list of political parties in Wales, political party in Wales, committed to Welsh independence from th ...
. Jones resigned from the Assembly on 20 June 2013, triggering a
by-election
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A vacancy may arise as a result of an incumben ...
, which was held on 1 August 2013. Plaid Cymru's candidate Rhun ap Iorwerth comfortably held the seat for the party with a majority of over 9000 votes.
Boundaries
The constituency was created for the
first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the
Ynys Môn Westminster constituency. It is entirely within the
preserved county of
Gwynedd
Gwynedd () is a county in the north-west of Wales. It borders Anglesey across the Menai Strait to the north, Conwy, Denbighshire, and Powys to the east, Ceredigion over the Dyfi estuary to the south, and the Irish Sea to the west. The ci ...
.
As created in 1999, the North Wales region includes the constituencies of
Alyn and Deeside,
Caernarfon
Caernarfon (; ) is a List of place names with royal patronage in the United Kingdom, royal town, Community (Wales), community and port in Gwynedd, Wales. It has a population of 9,852 (with Caeathro). It lies along the A487 road, on the easter ...
,
Clwyd West,
Clwyd South,
Conwy
Conwy (, ), previously known in English as Conway, is a walled market town, community and the administrative centre of Conwy County Borough in North Wales. The walled town and castle stand on the west bank of the River Conwy, facing Deganwy ...
,
Delyn,
Vale of Clwyd,
Wrexham
Wrexham ( ; ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in the North East Wales, north-east of Wales. It lies between the Cambrian Mountains, Welsh mountains and the lower River Dee, Wales, Dee Valley, near the England–Wales border, borde ...
and Ynys Môn. From the
2007 Assembly election the region included
Aberconwy,
Alyn and Deeside,
Arfon,
Clwyd South,
Clwyd West,
Delyn,
Vale of Clwyd,
Wrexham
Wrexham ( ; ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in the North East Wales, north-east of Wales. It lies between the Cambrian Mountains, Welsh mountains and the lower River Dee, Wales, Dee Valley, near the England–Wales border, borde ...
and Ynys Môn.
Voting
In elections for the Senedd, 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 describes the variant of party-list systems where voters can effectively vote for only political parties as a whole; thus they have no influence on the party-supplied order in which party candidates are elected. If voters had some in ...
of candidates. Additional member seats are allocated from the lists by the
d'Hondt method
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, with constituency results being taken into account in the allocation.
Assembly Members and Members of the Senedd
Elections
Elections in the 2020s
Elections in the 2010s
Regional ballots rejected at the count: 144
Elections in the 2000s
2003 Electorate: 49,998
Regional ballots rejected: 239
Elections in the 1990s
See also
*
North Wales (Senedd electoral region)
North Wales () is an electoral region of the Senedd, consisting of nine United Kingdom constituencies, constituencies. The region elects thirteen members, nine directly elected constituency members and four Mixed member proportional representati ...
*
Senedd constituencies and electoral regions
The Senedd constituencies and electoral regions () are the electoral districts used to elect members of the Senedd (MS; ) to the Senedd (Welsh Parliament; ), and have been used in some form since the first election of the then ''National Assemb ...
References
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Senedd constituencies in the North Wales electoral region
Politics of Anglesey
1999 establishments in Wales
Constituencies established in 1999