Labour's Jack Sargeant has held his seat in Alyn and Deeside. He has been re-elected with 12,622 votes.
Regional results could take until Saturday to be known.
Labour’s Jack Sargeant held the seat previously when he won in a by-election after the death of his father Carl Sargeant in 2018.
The constituency has existed since 1999 and has only ever been held by Labour.
In 2016, Jack Sargeant took more than 60% of the vote in the 2018 by-election compared to the Conservative candidate Sarah Atherton who received 25.4%, she was later elected to Westminster for the Wrexham constituency.
Carl Sargeant’s winning margin in 2016 was 24.7%.
The candidates in Alyn and Deeside:
Felix Aubel - UKIP Scrap The Assembly/Senedd
Lien Davies - Freedom Alliance. No Lockdowns.No Curfews.
Abigail Mainon - Conservatives
Jack Morris - Plaid Cymru
Richard Purviss - Reform UK
Jack Sargeant - Labour
Chris Twells - Liberal Democrats
Jack Sargeant - Labour
I am incredibly proud to have represented the community that shaped me for the last three years, I have only ever lived in Alyn and Deeside. I grew up in Connah’s Quay, going to Connah’s Quay High School.
I am 26, a trained engineer and have worked in some amazing companies locally including and completed my apprenticeship at DRB Group on Deeside Industrial estate. Deeside is the workshop of Wales, where a highly skilled workforce produce some of the most advanced products anywhere in the world.
I am proud to come from an engineering background and think it is vital that we have politicians that have worked in Industry.
What is the most important thing you think the Senedd should do in the next five years?
My focus for the next five years will be our local economy, protecting jobs and creating new ones. Local businesses in Deeside need our support if they are going to thrive. Those businesses large and small that I have helped secure funding for will provide the jobs we need going forward and it would be an honour to continue representing and supporting them.
I will also continue to support key workers who have been on the front line throughout this awful pandemic. They have kept Wales running under the most challenging of circumstances and we must now do all we can to be there for them.
What will you do for your constituency if elected?
We need to build our way out of Covid, I am already working with the Welsh Labour Government to deliver new economic and transport infrastructure; if we are to grow, we need to invest. At my core is the principle that we need to help each other if we are to succeed, we have seen so many local voluntary groups step up to help our fellow citizens at this difficult time.
I will continue my work with them to make Alyn and Deeside a better fairer place to live.
I will also continue my work for a kinder politics, we can debate and even disagree, but we must start doing so respectfully.
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