Arfon (Assembly constituency)

Arfon
National Assembly for Wales county constituency
Arfon shown within the North Wales electoral region and the region shown within Wales
Current National Assembly for Wales county constituency
Created	2007
Party	Plaid Cymru
AM	Siân Gwenllian
Preserved county	Gwynedd
Created from	Caernarfon and Conwy

Coordinates: 53°04′59″N 4°02′31″W / 53.083°N 4.042°W / 53.083; -4.042

Arfon is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales, created for the 2007 Assembly election. It elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of nine constituencies in the North Wales electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to nine constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

The constituency has the boundaries of the Arfon Westminster constituency, entirely within the preserved county of Gwynedd, which will come into use, also, for the 2010 United Kingdom general election. The new constituency merged areas currently within the Caernarfon constituency and the Conwy constituency. The Caernarfon constituency was entirely within the preserved county of Gwynedd. The Conwy constituency was partly a Gwynedd constituency and partly within the preserved county of Clwyd.