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Mapping the election - see party vote share by constituency across Wales
Scoreboard
| Party | Candidates | Votes | % | Net percentage change in seats |
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Party
PC Plaid Cymru |
Candidates Sian Gwenllian | Votes 10,962 | 54.8% | Net percentage change in seats −1.9 |
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Party
LAB Welsh Labour |
Candidates Sion Jones | Votes 6,800 | 34.0% | Net percentage change in seats +7.8 |
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Party
CON Welsh Conservative |
Candidates Martin Peet | Votes 1,655 | 8.3% | Net percentage change in seats −4.2 |
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Party
LD Welsh Liberal Democrat |
Candidates Sara Lloyd Williams | Votes 577 | 2.9% | Net percentage change in seats −1.6 |
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Change compared with 2011 |
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Turnout and Majority
Plaid Cymru Majority
4,162Turnout
50.9%Constituency Profile
Arfon is situated in north-west Wales.
It is based around the historic town of Caernarfon - site of the investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1969 - and the university city of Bangor. Tourism and the public sector are major employers, and there is also a thriving media sector based around Bangor. The high student population means the seat has a different demographic profile to other constituencies on the north Wales coast - 17% of the population are aged 65 or over, compared to 26% in neighbouring Aberconwy.
At Westminster, the old Caernarfon seat had been a Plaid Cymru stronghold since it was won by Dafydd Wigley in the February 1974 election. The new Arfon constituency was created in time for the 2007 Assembly elections. Plaid Cymru's Alun Ffred Jones won the seat then with 52% of the vote. In 2011, he won it again for Plaid Cymru with 56% of the vote. Labour came second with 26%, the Conservatives were third with 12% and the Liberal Democrats fourth with 4%.