South Wales East (Welsh: Dwyrain De Cymru) was an electoral region of the Senedd, consisting of eight constituencies. The region elected 12 members, eight directly elected constituency members and four additional members. The electoral region was first used in 1999, when the National Assembly for Wales was created.
Each constituency elected one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post electoral system, and the region as a whole elected four additional or top-up Members of the Senedd, to create a degree of proportional representation. The additional member seats were allocated from closed lists by the D'Hondt method, with constituency results being taken into account in the allocation.
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County boundaries
The region covered the whole of the preserved county of Gwent and part of the preserved county of Mid Glamorgan. The rest of Mid Glamorgan was mostly within the South Wales Central electoral region and partly within the South Wales West region.
Electoral region profile
The region was one of contrasts; it included the city of Newport, along with the town of Caerphilly. It also took in the working-class former iron town of Merthyr Tydfil, one of the most deprived towns in the UK, but also rural Monmouthshire, one of the most affluent parts of Wales.
Constituencies
The eight constituencies had the names and boundaries of constituencies of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster):
Assembly members and Members of the Senedd
Regional list AMs and MSs
N.B. This table is for presentation purposes only
2021 Senedd election additional members
2016 Welsh Assembly election additional members
2011 Welsh Assembly election additional members
2007 Welsh Assembly election additional members
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On 8 December 2009, Mohammad Asghar, Plaid Cymru's list member for South Wales East, defected to the Conservative Party. This gave Plaid one AM, and the Conservatives two.
2003 Welsh Assembly additional members
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