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Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney Assembly constituency

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2016 Welsh Assembly election results

	Winner	Labour Hold (26.5% majority)
	Constituency AM	Louise Alison Dawn Bowden
	Top-up region AMs	2 UK Independence Party, 1 Conservative, 1 Plaid Cymru
	Region	South Wales East

Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney results for Welsh Assembly election, 2016

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
Louise Alison Dawn Bowden	Lab	9,763	47.2%	-7.1
David John Rowlands	UKI	4,277	20.7%
Brian Malcolm Thomas	Pla	3,721	18.0%	+9.2
Elizabeth Claire Simon	Con	1,331	6.4%	+0.1
Bob Griffin	Lib	1,122	5.4%	-7.4
Julie Colbran	Gre	469	2.3%

Share of top-up region votes: South Wales East region

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	74,424	38.3%
UK Independence Party UKIP	34,524	17.8%	2
Conservative Con	33,318	17.2%	1
Plaid Cymru PC	29,686	15.3%	1
Abo Abo	7,870	4.1%
Liberal Democrats LD	6,784	3.5%
Green Party Gre	4,831	2.5%
Other Oth	2,654	1.4%

Elected regional members for South Wales East region

	Party
Mark Reckless	UK Independence Party UKIP
David Rowlands	UK Independence Party UKIP
Oscar Asghar	Conservative Con
Steffan Lewis	Plaid Cymru PC

Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney results for Welsh Assembly election, 2011

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
Huw Lewis	Lab	10,483	54.3%	+17.2
Tony Rogers	Ind	3,432	17.8%
Amy Kitcher	LD	2,480	12.8%	-2.4
Noel Turner	PC	1,701	8.8%	-3.2
Chris O'Brien	Con	1,224	6.3%	+0.9

Share of top-up region votes: South Wales East region

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	10,779	55.9%
Plaid Cymru PC	2,363	12.2%	2
Conservative Con	1,554	8.1%	2
Liberal Democrats LD	1,374	7.1%
UK Independence Party UKIP	859	4.5%
British National Party BNP	726	3.8%
Socialist Labour Party SLA	711	3.7%
Green Party Gre	445	2.3%
Other Oth	488	2.5%

Elected regional members for South Wales East region

	Party
Jocelyn Davies	Plaid Cymru PC
Lindsay Whittle	Plaid Cymru PC
William Graham	Conservative Con
Mohammad Asghar	Conservative Con

Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney results for Welsh Assembly election, 2007

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share
H.G. Lewis	Lab	7,776	37.0%
A.E. Kitcher	LD	3,195	15.2%
C. Tovey	Ind	2,622	12.5%
G.C. Jones	PC	2,519	12.0%
J. Edwards	Ind	1,915	9.1%
G. Howard	Con	1,151	5.5%
N. Greer	Ind	844	4.0%
V. Elliott Hadley	Ind	809	3.9%
R.D.M. Williams	Ind	162	0.8%

Share of top-up region votes: South Wales East region

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	8,849	42.1%
Plaid Cymru PC	3,529	16.8%	2
Liberal Democrats LD	2,946	14.0%	1
Conservative Con	1,612	7.7%	1
UK Independence Party UKIP	1,191	5.7%
British National Party BNP	922	4.4%
Green Party Gre	475	2.3%
Socialist Labour Party SLA	424	2.0%
Other Oth	1,052	5.0%

Elected regional members for South Wales East region

	Party
Jocelyn Davies	Plaid Cymru PC
Mohammad Asghar	Plaid Cymru PC
Michael German	Liberal Democrats LD
William Graham	Conservative Con

Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney results for Welsh Assembly election, 2003

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
H.G. Lewis	Lab	11,148	60.5%	+16.6
A.G. Cox	PC	2,988	16.2%	-10.9
J.L. Prosser	Con	1,539	8.4%	+3.4
N. Greer	Ind	1,423	7.7%
J.A. Ault	LD	1,324	7.2%	+0.5

Share of top-up region votes: South Wales East region

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	76,522	45.1%
Conservative Con	34,231	20.2%	2
Plaid Cymru Pla	21,384	12.6%
Liberal Democrats LD	17,661	10.4%	1
UK Independence Party UKIP	5,949	3.5%
Green Party Gre	5,291	3.1%
Socialist Labour Party SLA	3,695	2.2%
British National Party BNP	3,210	1.9%
Other Oth	1,788	1.1%

Elected regional members for South Wales East region

	Party
Laura Anne Jones	Conservative Con
William Graham	Conservative Con
Michael German	Liberal Democrats LD

Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney results for Welsh Assembly election, 1999

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share
H.G. Lewis	Lab	11,024	43.9%
A.G. Cox	PC	6,810	27.1%
T. Rogers	Ind	3,746	14.9%
E. Jones	LD	1,682	6.7%
C.M. Hyde	Con	1,246	5.0%
M. Jenkins	SocAll	580	2.3%

Share of top-up region votes: South Wales East region

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	83,953	41.5%
Plaid Cymru Pla	49,139	24.3%
Conservative Con	33,947	16.8%	1
Liberal Democrats LD	24,757	12.2%	1
Socialist Labour Party SLA	4,879	2.4%
Green Party Gre	4,055	2.0%
Other Oth	1,801	0.9%

Elected regional members for South Wales East region

	Party
William Graham	Conservative Con
William Graham	Liberal Democrats LD

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Last four Constituency AMs

2016

Louise Alison Dawn Bowden

Labour

2011

Huw Lewis

Labour

2007

H.G. Lewis

Labour

2003

H.G. Lewis

Labour

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2016 Welsh Assembly election results

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Share of top-up region votes: South Wales East region

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Elected regional members for South Wales East region

Share of constituency votes

Share of top-up region votes: South Wales East region

Share of vote and seats

Elected regional members for South Wales East region

Share of constituency votes

Share of top-up region votes: South Wales East region

Share of vote and seats

Elected regional members for South Wales East region

Share of constituency votes

Share of top-up region votes: South Wales East region

Share of vote and seats

Elected regional members for South Wales East region

Share of constituency votes

Share of top-up region votes: South Wales East region

Share of vote and seats

Elected regional members for South Wales East region

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