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2021 Welsh Assembly election results

	Winner	Labour Hold (15.2% majority)
	Constituency AM	John Griffiths
	Top-up region AMs	2 Plaid Cymru, 2 Conservative
	Region	South Wales East

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Newport East results for Senedd Cymru / Welsh Parliament election, 2021

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
John Griffiths	Lab	10,899	46.3%	+1.7
Gareth Rhys Hughes	Con	7,315	31.1%	+12.9
Daniel Llewellyn	Pla	1,844	7.8%	+1.1
Mike Hamilton	Lib	1,574	6.7%	-0.5
Ben Walker	UKI	368	1.6%

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

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	85,988	41.4%
Conservative Con	52,323	25.2%	2
Plaid Cymru PC	30,530	14.7%	2
Green Party Gre	9,950	4.8%
Liberal Democrats LD	7,045	3.4%
UK Independence Party UKIP	4,101	2.0%
Other Oth	17,980	8.6%

Elected regional members for South Wales East region

	Party
Natasha Asghar	Conservative Con
Laura Anne Jones	Conservative Con
Delyth Jewell	Plaid Cymru PC
Peredur Owen Griffiths	Plaid Cymru PC

Newport East results for Welsh Assembly election, 2016

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
John Griffiths	Lab	9,229	44.6%	-6.2
James Peterson	UKI	4,333	20.9%
Munawar Mughal	Con	3,768	18.2%	-4.9
Paul Halliday	Lib	1,481	7.2%	-11.9
Anthony Michael Salkeld	Pla	1,386	6.7%	-0.3
Peter Varley	Gre	491	2.4%

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

Newport East results for Welsh Assembly election, 2011

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
John Griffiths	Lab	9,888	50.8%	+18.7
Nick Webb	Con	4,500	23.1%	+0.5
Ed Townsend	LD	3,703	19.0%	-8.7
Chris Paul	PC	1,369	7.0%	-1.5

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

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	8,691	44.4%
Conservative Con	4,226	21.6%	2
Liberal Democrats LD	2,398	12.2%
Plaid Cymru PC	1,209	6.2%	2
UK Independence Party UKIP	1,155	5.9%
British National Party BNP	604	3.1%
Socialist Labour Party SLA	398	2.0%
Green Party Gre	367	1.9%
Other Oth	548	2.8%

Elected regional members for South Wales East region

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

Newport East results for Welsh Assembly election, 2007

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share
A.J. Griffiths	Lab	6,395	32.1%
C.E. Townsend	LD	5,520	27.7%
P.A. Fox	Con	4,512	22.7%
T. Puw	PC	1,696	8.5%
J.D. Harris	Ind	1,354	6.8%
M.T.M. Blundell	ED	429	2.2%

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

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	6,085	30.7%
Liberal Democrats LD	4,527	22.8%	1
Conservative Con	4,299	21.7%	1
Plaid Cymru PC	1,707	8.6%	2
UK Independence Party UKIP	696	3.5%
British National Party BNP	676	3.4%
Green Party Gre	435	2.2%
Socialist Labour Party SLA	278	1.4%
Other Oth	1,123	5.7%

Elected regional members for South Wales East region

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

Newport East results for Welsh Assembly election, 2003

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
A.J. Griffiths	Lab	7,621	44.6%	-4.8
M. Evans	Con	4,157	24.3%	+1.5
C.E. Townsend	LD	2,768	16.2%	+2.2
M. Asghar	PC	1,555	9.1%	-4.7
N.J. Reynolds	UKIP	987	5.8%

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

Newport East results for Welsh Assembly election, 1999

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share
A.J. Griffiths	Lab	9,497	49.4%
M.A. Major	Con	4,386	22.8%
A.R. Cameron	LD	2,684	14.0%
C.K. Holland	PC	2,647	13.8%

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

Seat background for Newport East constituency

Last four Constituency AMs

2021

John Griffiths

Labour

2016

John Griffiths

Labour

2011

John Griffiths

Labour

2007

A.J. Griffiths

Labour