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2021 Welsh Assembly election results

	Winner	Labour Hold (25.4% majority)
	Constituency AM	David Rees
	Top-up region AMs	2 Conservative, 2 Plaid Cymru
	Region	South Wales West

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Aberavon results for Senedd Cymru / Welsh Parliament election, 2021

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
David Rees	Lab	10,505	46.5%	-4.2
Victoria Griffiths	Pla	4,760	21.1%	+1.1
Liz Hill O'Shea	Con	2,947	13.1%	+6.6
Helen Ceri Clarke	Lib	953	4.2%	-1.8
Tim Jenkins	UKI	407	1.8%

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

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	78,318	44.6%
Conservative Con	38,244	21.8%	2
Plaid Cymru PC	33,753	19.2%	2
Green Party Gre	7,155	4.1%
Liberal Democrats LD	6,010	3.4%
UK Independence Party UKIP	2,809	1.6%
Other Oth	9,432	5.4%

Elected regional members for South Wales West region

	Party
Tom Giffard	Conservative Con
Altaf Hussain	Conservative Con
Luke Fletcher	Plaid Cymru PC
Sioned Williams	Plaid Cymru PC

Aberavon results for Welsh Assembly election, 2016

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
David Felix Rees	Lab	10,578	50.7%	-13.4
Bethan Jenkins	Pla	4,176	20.0%	+5.2
Glenda Marie Davies	UKI	3,119	15.0%
David Francis Jenkins	Con	1,342	6.4%	-7.9
Helen Ceri Clarke	Lib	1,248	6.0%	-0.8
Jonathan Tier	Gre	389	1.9%

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

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	66,903	39.5%
Plaid Cymru PC	29,050	17.2%	2
Conservative Con	25,414	15.0%	1
UK Independence Party UKIP	23,096	13.7%	1
Liberal Democrats LD	10,946	6.5%
Abo Abo	7,137	4.2%
Green Party Gre	4,420	2.6%
Other Oth	2,223	1.3%

Elected regional members for South Wales West region

	Party
Bethan Jenkins	Plaid Cymru PC
Dai Lloyd	Plaid Cymru PC
Suzy Davies	Conservative Con
Caroline Jones	UK Independence Party UKIP

Aberavon results for Welsh Assembly election, 2011

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
David Rees	Lab	12,104	64.1%	+14.8
Paul Nicholls Jones	PC	2,793	14.8%	-2.5
TJ Morgan	Con	2,704	14.3%	+4.6
Helen Ceri Clarke	LD	1,278	6.8%	-0.3

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

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	10,671	57.2%
Plaid Cymru PC	2,391	12.8%	1
Conservative Con	2,030	10.9%	2
Liberal Democrats LD	860	4.6%	1
UK Independence Party UKIP	719	3.9%
Socialist Labour Party SLA	669	3.6%
British National Party BNP	627	3.4%
Green Party Gre	340	1.8%
Other Oth	348	1.9%

Elected regional members for South Wales West region

	Party
Bethan Jenkins	Plaid Cymru PC
Suzy Davies	Conservative Con
Byron Davies	Conservative Con
Peter Black	Liberal Democrats LD

Aberavon results for Welsh Assembly election, 2007

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share
B. Gibbons	Lab	10,129	49.3%
L.M. Purcell	PC	3,558	17.3%
A.J. Tutton	Ind	2,561	12.5%
D.C.A. Meyland-Smith	Con	1,990	9.7%
C.M. Waller	LD	1,450	7.1%
C. Beany	Ind	840	4.1%

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

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	9,303	45.5%
Plaid Cymru PC	3,610	17.7%	2
Conservative Con	2,058	10.1%	1
Liberal Democrats LD	1,775	8.7%	1
British National Party BNP	1,185	5.8%
Green Party Gre	663	3.2%
UK Independence Party UKIP	653	3.2%
Socialist Labour Party SLA	423	2.1%
Other Oth	774	3.8%

Elected regional members for South Wales West region

	Party
Bethan Jenkins	Plaid Cymru PC
David Lloyd	Plaid Cymru PC
Alun Cairns	Conservative Con
Peter Black	Liberal Democrats LD

Aberavon results for Welsh Assembly election, 2003

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
B.J. Gibbons	Lab	11,137	59.4%	+8.1
G.D. Owen	pl	3,324	17.7%	-4.6
C.M. Waller	LD	1,840	9.8%	-3.8
M.A. Boult	Con	1,732	9.2%	+2.3
R. Williams	SocAlt	608	3.2%
G.M. Saunders	Ind	114	0.6%

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

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	58,066	41.6%
Plaid Cymru Pla	24,799	17.8%
Conservative Con	20,981	15.0%	1
Liberal Democrats LD	17,746	12.7%	1
Green Party Gre	6,696	4.8%
UK Independence Party UKIP	6,113	4.4%
Socialist Labour Party SLA	3,446	2.5%
Other Oth	1,701	1.2%

Elected regional members for South Wales West region

	Party
Alun Cairns	Conservative Con
Peter Black	Liberal Democrats LD

Aberavon results for Welsh Assembly election, 1999

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share
B.J. Gibbons	Lab	11,941	51.3%
J.M. Davies	PC	5,198	22.3%
D.K. Davies	LD	3,165	13.6%
M.E. Davies	Con	1,624	7.0%
C. Beany	Ind	849	3.6%
D.H. Pudner	SocAll	517	2.2%

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

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	70,625	42.3%
Plaid Cymru Pla	50,757	30.4%
Conservative Con	20,993	12.6%	1
Liberal Democrats LD	18,527	11.1%	1
Green Party Gre	4,082	2.4%
Other Oth	2,137	1.3%

Elected regional members for South Wales West region

	Party
Alun Cairns	Conservative Con
Peter Black	Liberal Democrats LD

Seat background for Aberavon constituency

Last four Constituency AMs

2021

David Rees

Labour

2016

David Felix Rees

Labour

2011

David Rees

Labour

2007

B. Gibbons

Labour