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Mapping the election - see party vote share by constituency across Wales
Mid and West Wales
Welsh Assembly regionResults
| Party | Elected | Seats | Votes | % | Net percentage change in seats |
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Party
LAB Welsh Labour |
Elected Joyce Watson Eluned Morgan | Seats 2 | Votes 41,975 | 19.4% | Net percentage change in seats −3.1 |
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Party
PC Plaid Cymru |
Elected Simon Thomas | Seats 1 | Votes 56,754 | 26.3% | Net percentage change in seats −0.5 |
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UKIP UKIP Wales |
Elected Neil Hamilton | Seats 1 | Votes 25,042 | 11.6% | Net percentage change in seats +7.2 |
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Party
CON Welsh Conservative |
Elected - | Seats 0 | Votes 44,461 | 20.6% | Net percentage change in seats −4.6 |
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LD Welsh Liberal Democrat |
Elected - | Seats 0 | Votes 23,554 | 10.9% | Net percentage change in seats −1.9 |
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AWA Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party |
Elected - | Seats 0 | Votes 10,707 | 5.0% | Net percentage change in seats +5.0 |
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GRN Wales Green Party |
Elected - | Seats 0 | Votes 8,222 | 3.8% | Net percentage change in seats −0.3 |
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PF People First |
Elected - | Seats 0 | Votes 1,496 | 0.7% | Net percentage change in seats +0.7 |
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WCP Welsh Christian Party |
Elected - | Seats 0 | Votes 1,103 | 0.5% | Net percentage change in seats −0.3 |
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MRLP Monster Raving Loony Party |
Elected - | Seats 0 | Votes 1,071 | 0.5% | Net percentage change in seats +0.5 |
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AWLI Association of Welsh Local Independents |
Elected - | Seats 0 | Votes 1,032 | 0.5% | Net percentage change in seats +0.5 |
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CPB Welsh Communist Party |
Elected - | Seats 0 | Votes 423 | 0.2% | Net percentage change in seats −0.1 |
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Change compared with 2011 |
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Turnout
Turnout
50.6%Constituencies within Mid and West Wales
Region Profile
The Mid and West Wales region is made up of eight constituencies.
This region elects twelve members, eight directly elected constituency members and four additional members. Geographically it is the largest of Wales' five electoral regions - being larger in area than the other four regions put together. It contains Snowdonia in the north, the west coast of Wales down to the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park and the Brecon Beacons National Park. Llanelli, in the south, is the region's largest town with a population of nearly 50,000 people.
The constituencies which make up Mid and West Wales are: Llanelli, Brecon & Radnorshire, Preseli Pembrokeshire, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, Ceredigion, Montgomeryshire and Dwyfor Meirionnydd. At the 2011 election, Labour had 2 Mid and West Wales regional AMs and Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats had one each.