Pontypridd (Assembly constituency)

Pontypridd
National Assembly for Wales county constituency
Pontypridd shown within the South Wales Central electoral region and the region shown within Wales
Current National Assembly for Wales county constituency
Created	1999
Party	Labour
AM	Mick Antoniw
Preserved county	Mid Glamorgan South Glamorgan

Coordinates: 51°36′04″N 3°21′00″W / 51.601°N 3.350°W / 51.601; -3.350

Pontypridd is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales. It elects one Assembly Member by the first-past-the-post electoral system. It is also one of eight constituencies in the South Wales Central electoral region that elects four additional members (along with eight constituency members), to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Pontypridd Westminster constituency. It is within the preserved county of Mid Glamorgan.

The other seven constituencies of the region are Cardiff Central, Cardiff North, Cardiff South and Penarth, Cardiff West, Cynon Valley, Rhondda and Vale of Glamorgan.