Gower is a
constituencyIn the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly....
of the
National Assembly for WalesThe National Assembly for Wales is a devolved assembly with power to make legislation in Wales. The Assembly comprises 60 members, who are known as Assembly Members, or AMs...
. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of seven constituencies in the
South Wales WestSouth Wales West is an electoral region of the National Assembly for Wales, consisting of seven constituencies. The region elects 11 members, seven directly elected constituency members and four additional members...
electoral region, which elects four
additional membersThe Additional Member System is a branch of voting systems in which some representatives are elected from geographic constituencies and others are elected under proportional representation from a wider area, usually by party lists. Voters have two votes, one for the party and the second for the...
, in addition to seven constituency members, to produce a degree of
proportional representationProportional representation , sometimes referred to as full representation, is a category of electoral formula aimed at securing a close match between the percentage of votes that groups of candidates obtain in elections and the percentage of seats they receive...
for the region as a whole.
The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the
Gower Westminster constituencyGower is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency has elected only Labour MPs since 1906, the longest run of any UK constituency...
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Gower shown as one of the 40
Welsh Assembly constituencies |
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1999 |
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South Wales West |
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Edwina HartEdwina Hart MBE AM, is a Welsh Labour Party politician who has been a Member of the National Assembly for Wales representing Gower since 1999. She is also Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Health and Social Services since May 2007....
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Labour The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been seen since 1920 as the principal party of the Left in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently begun to organise again...
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Preserved countyThe Preserved counties of Wales are the current areas used in Wales for the ceremonial purposes of Lieutenancy and Shrievalty. They are based on the counties created by the Local Government Act 1972 and used for local government and other purposes between 1974 and 1996.-Usage:The Local Government ...
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West GlamorganWest Glamorgan is a preserved county and former administrative county of Wales, one of the divisions of the ancient county of Glamorgan.West Glamorgan was created on 1 April 1974, by the Local Government Act 1972 from the county borough of Swansea, the boroughs of Neath and Port Talbot, the urban...
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Gower is a
constituencyIn the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly....
of the
National Assembly for WalesThe National Assembly for Wales is a devolved assembly with power to make legislation in Wales. The Assembly comprises 60 members, who are known as Assembly Members, or AMs...
. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of seven constituencies in the
South Wales WestSouth Wales West is an electoral region of the National Assembly for Wales, consisting of seven constituencies. The region elects 11 members, seven directly elected constituency members and four additional members...
electoral region, which elects four
additional membersThe Additional Member System is a branch of voting systems in which some representatives are elected from geographic constituencies and others are elected under proportional representation from a wider area, usually by party lists. Voters have two votes, one for the party and the second for the...
, in addition to seven constituency members, to produce a degree of
proportional representationProportional representation , sometimes referred to as full representation, is a category of electoral formula aimed at securing a close match between the percentage of votes that groups of candidates obtain in elections and the percentage of seats they receive...
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
Gower Westminster constituencyGower is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency has elected only Labour MPs since 1906, the longest run of any UK constituency...
. It is entirely within the
preserved countyThe Preserved counties of Wales are the current areas used in Wales for the ceremonial purposes of Lieutenancy and Shrievalty. They are based on the counties created by the Local Government Act 1972 and used for local government and other purposes between 1974 and 1996.-Usage:The Local Government ...
of
West GlamorganWest Glamorgan is a preserved county and former administrative county of Wales, one of the divisions of the ancient county of Glamorgan.West Glamorgan was created on 1 April 1974, by the Local Government Act 1972 from the county borough of Swansea, the boroughs of Neath and Port Talbot, the urban...
.
The other six constituencies of the region are
AberavonAberavon 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 seven constituencies in the South Wales West electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to seven...
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BridgendBridgend 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 seven constituencies in the South Wales West electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to seven...
,
NeathNeath 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 seven constituencies in the South Wales West electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to seven constituency...
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OgmoreOgmore 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 seven constituencies in the South Wales West electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to seven...
,
Swansea EastSwansea East is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election...
and
Swansea WestSwansea West is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election...
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Voting
In
general electionIn a parliamentary political system, a general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are up for election...
s 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 listClosed list describes the variant of party-list proportional representation where voters can only vote for political parties as a whole and thus have no influence on the party-supplied order in which party candidates are elected...
of candidates. Additional member seats are allocated from the lists by the
d'Hondt methodThe d'Hondt method is a highest averages method for allocating seats in party-list proportional representation. The method is named after Belgian mathematician Victor d'Hondt...
, with constituency results being taken into account in the allocation.
Assembly members
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1999 The first National Assembly for Wales elections were held on 6 May 1999. The overall turnout of voters was 46.3%. The breakdown of voting was as follows:-Constituency results:-Regional-list results:...
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Edwina HartEdwina Hart MBE AM, is a Welsh Labour Party politician who has been a Member of the National Assembly for Wales representing Gower since 1999. She is also Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Health and Social Services since May 2007....
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Labour Party The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been seen since 1920 as the principal party of the Left in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently begun to organise again...
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Elections