Cardiff North (Assembly constituency)

Coordinates: 51°31′01″N 3°12′11″W / 51.517°N 3.203°W

Cardiff North
National Assembly for Wales borough constituency
Cardiff North shown within the South Wales Central electoral region and the region shown within Wales
Current National Assembly for Wales borough constituency
Created	1999
Party	Labour
AM	Julie Morgan
Preserved county	South Glamorgan

Cardiff North (Welsh: Gogledd Caerdydd) 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 Central 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 name and boundaries of the Cardiff North Westminster constituency. It is entirely within the preserved county of South Glamorgan. To the north within the boundaries lies North Rural Cardiff and to the south lies the densely populated area of Whitchurch, Rhiwbina, Thornhill etc.

The other seven constituencies of the region are Cardiff Central, Cardiff South and Penarth, Cardiff West, Cynon Valley, Pontypridd, Rhondda and Vale of Glamorgan.

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. In both the 2011 and 2016 elections, Julie Morgan won the highest number of votes of any candidate in any constituency in Wales.

Assembly Members

Period		Member	Party
	1999	Sue Essex	Labour
	2007	Jonathan Morgan	Conservative
	2011	Julie Morgan	Labour

Election results

Elections in the 2010s

Welsh Assembly Election 2016: Cardiff North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Julie Morgan	16,766	44.8	−2.8
	Conservative	Jayne Cowan	13,099	35.0	−7.4
	UKIP	Haydn Rushworth	2,509	6.7	+6.7
	Plaid Cymru	Elin Walker Jones	2,278	6.1	+0.7
	Liberal Democrats	John Dixon	1,130	3.0	−1.6
	Independent	Fiona Burt	846	2.3	+2.3
	Green	Chris von Ruhland	824	2.2	+2.2
Majority			3,667	9.8	+4.6
Turnout				56.8	+4.9
	Labour hold		Swing	+2.3

Welsh Assembly Election 2011: Cardiff North^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Julie Morgan	16,384	47.6	+16.7
	Conservative	Jonathan Morgan	14,602	42.4	−2.9
	Plaid Cymru	Ben Foday	1,850	5.4	−2.0
	Liberal Democrats	Matt Smith	1,595	4.6	−8.1
Majority			1,782	5.2
Turnout			34,431	51.9	+0.6
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	+9.8

Elections in the 2000s

Welsh Assembly Election 2007: Cardiff North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Jonathan Morgan	15,253	45.3	+9.7
	Labour	Sophie Joyce Howe	10,409	30.9	−6.6
	Liberal Democrats	Ed Bridges	4,287	12.7	+0.2
	Plaid Cymru	Wyn Jones	2,491	7.4	−2.3
	UKIP	Dai Llewellyn	1,262	3.7	−1.0
Majority			4,843	14.4
Turnout			33,702	51.3	+8.3
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+8.2

Welsh Assembly Election 2003: Cardiff North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Sue Essex	10,413	37.5	−1.2
	Conservative	Jonathan Morgan	9,873	35.6	+4.2
	Liberal Democrats	John L. Dixon	3,474	12.5	−3.6
	Plaid Cymru	Wyn Jones	2,679	9.7	−4.1
	UKIP	Donald E. Hulston	1,295	4.7	N/A
Majority			540	1.9	−5.4
Turnout			27,734	43.9	−7.7
	Labour hold		Swing	−2.7

Elections in the 1990s

Welsh Assembly Election 1999: Cardiff North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Sue Essex	12,198	38.7	N/A
	Conservative	Jonathan Morgan	9,894	31.4	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Alastair Meikle	5,088	16.1	N/A
	Plaid Cymru	Colin Mann	4,337	13.8	N/A
Majority			2,304	7.3	N/A
Turnout			31,517	51.5	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

References

1. "Wales elections > Cardiff North". BBC News. 6 May 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2011.