Cardiff North () was a constituency of the Senedd. It elected one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it was one of eight constituencies in the South Wales Central electoral region, which elected four additional members, in addition to eight constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation 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 Cardiff North Westminster constituency prior to the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies. It was entirely within the preserved county of South Glamorgan. To the north within the boundaries lay North Rural Cardiff and to the south lay the densely populated area of Whitchurch, Rhiwbina, Thornhill etc.
The other seven constituencies of the region were Cardiff Central, Cardiff South and Penarth, Cardiff West, Cynon Valley, Pontypridd, Rhondda and Vale of Glamorgan.
Voting In general elections for the National Assembly for Wales, each voter had two votes. The first vote was 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 was used to vote for a regional closed party list of candidates. Additional member seats were allocated from the lists by the d'Hondt method, with constituency results being taken into account in the allocation. In both the 2011 and 2016 elections, Julie Morgan won the highest number of votes of any candidate in any constituency in Wales.
Assembly members ElectionMemberPartyPortrait 1999 Sue Essex Labour 2007 Jonathan Morgan Conservative 2011 Julie Morgan Labour
Election results Elections in the 2020s
Elections in the 2010s
Regional ballots rejected at the count: 214
Elections in the 2000s
2003 Electorate: 64,528 Regional ballots rejected: 328
Elections in the 1990s
1999 electorate: 61,253
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