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Mapping the election - see party vote share by constituency across Wales
South Wales East
Welsh Assembly regionResults
Party | Elected | Seats | Votes | % | Net percentage change in seats |
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Party
UKIP UKIP Wales |
Elected Mark Reckless David Rowlands | Seats 2 | Votes 34,524 | 17.8% | Net percentage change in seats +12.5 |
Party
CON Welsh Conservative |
Elected Oscar Asghar | Seats 1 | Votes 33,318 | 17.2% | Net percentage change in seats −2.4 |
Party
PC Plaid Cymru |
Elected Steffan Lewis | Seats 1 | Votes 29,686 | 15.3% | Net percentage change in seats +3.2 |
Party
LAB Welsh Labour |
Elected - | Seats 0 | Votes 74,424 | 38.3% | Net percentage change in seats −7.3 |
Party
AWA Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party |
Elected - | Seats 0 | Votes 7,870 | 4.1% | Net percentage change in seats +4.1 |
Party
LD Welsh Liberal Democrat |
Elected - | Seats 0 | Votes 6,784 | 3.5% | Net percentage change in seats −2.5 |
Party
GRN Wales Green Party |
Elected - | Seats 0 | Votes 4,831 | 2.5% | Net percentage change in seats −0.2 |
Party
MRLP Monster Raving Loony Party |
Elected - | Seats 0 | Votes 1,115 | 0.6% | Net percentage change in seats +0.6 |
Party
TUSC TUSC |
Elected - | Seats 0 | Votes 618 | 0.3% | Net percentage change in seats +0.3 |
Party
CPB Welsh Communist Party |
Elected - | Seats 0 | Votes 492 | 0.3% | Net percentage change in seats −0.1 |
Party
NF National Front |
Elected - | Seats 0 | Votes 429 | 0.2% | Net percentage change in seats +0.2 |
Change compared with 2011 |
Turnout
Turnout
41.8%Constituencies within South Wales East
Region Profile
The South Wales East region is made up of eight constituencies.
It elects 12 members, eight directly elected constituency members and four additional members. It includes the city of Newport and its population of more than 140,000 people. Larger towns include Caerphilly and the former mining town of Merthyr Tydfil - which is one of the most deprived towns in the UK. It also includes one of the most affluent parts of Wales - rural Monmouthshire. The constituencies which make up the South Wales East region are: Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Islwyn, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Monmouth, Newport East, Newport West and Torfaen. At the 2011 election, the Conservatives and Plaid Cymru both had 2 South Wales East regional AMs.