Cardiff West (Senedd constituency)
Coordinates: 51°29′10″N 3°12′50″W / 51.486°N 3.214°W
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Cardiff West Gorllewin Caerdydd | |
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Senedd borough constituency for the Senedd | |
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![]() Cardiff West shown within the South Wales Central electoral region and the region shown within Wales | |
Current Senedd borough constituency | |
Created | 1999 |
Party | Welsh Labour |
Member of the Senedd | Mark Drakeford |
Preserved county | South Glamorgan |
Cardiff West (Welsh: Gorllewin Caerdydd) is a constituency of the Senedd. It elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of eight constituencies in the South Wales Central electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to eight constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole. The constituency has twice provided the First Minister of Wales, Rhodri Morgan from 2000-2009 and Mark Drakeford from 2018–Present.
Boundaries[]
The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Cardiff West Westminster constituency. It is entirely within the preserved county of South Glamorgan.
The other seven constituencies of the region are Cardiff Central, Cardiff North, Cardiff South and Penarth, Cynon Valley, Pontypridd, Rhondda and Vale of Glamorgan.
Voting[]
In general elections for the Senedd, each voter has two votes. The first vote may be used to vote for a candidate to become the Member of the Senedd for the voter's constituency, elected by the first past the post system. The second vote may be used to vote for a regional closed party list of candidates. Additional member seats are allocated from the lists by the d'Hondt method, with constituency results being taken into account in the allocation.
Election | Member | Party | Notes | |
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1999 | Rhodri Morgan | Labour | Secretary for Economic Development and European Affairs (1999–2000) Leader of Welsh Labour & First Minister of Wales (2000–2009) | |
2011 | Mark Drakeford | Minister for Health and Social Services (2013–2016) Minister for Finance (2016–2018) |
Elections[]
Elections in the 2020s[]
Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Labour | Mark Drakeford[a] | 17,665 | 48.4 | +12.8 | 13,421 | 37.0 | +7.0 | |
Conservative | Sean Driscoll | 6,454 | 17.7 | +0.2 | 6,553 | 18.0 | +1.6 | |
Plaid Cymru | Rhys ab Owen | 5,897 | 16.1 | -15.8 | 7,858 | 21.6 | -9.1 | |
Propel | Neil McEvoy[b] | 3,473 | 9.5 | New | 2,796 | 7.7 | New | |
Green | David Griffin | 1,287 | 3.5 | -0.3 | 2,479 | 6.8 | +2.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Heath John Marshall | 803 | 2.2 | -0.5 | 1,155 | 3.2 | -0.6 | |
Abolish | Lee Canning | 682 | 1.9 | New | 988 | 2.7 | -0.9 | |
Reform UK | Nick Mullins | 175 | 0.5 | New | 215 | 0.6 | New | |
Independent | Captain Beany | 95 | 0.3 | New | ||||
UKIP | 354 | 1.0 | -7.5 | |||||
No More Lockdowns | 157 | 0.4 | New | |||||
Gwlad | 104 | 0.3 | New | |||||
TUSC | 76 | 0.2 | -0.1 | |||||
Communist | 73 | 0.2 | ±0.0 | |||||
Independent | Alan Coulthard | 40 | 0.2 | New | ||||
Workers Party | 39 | 0.1 | New | |||||
Majority | 11,211 | 30.7 | +27.0 | |||||
Turnout | 36,531 | 50.55[2] | ||||||
Labour hold | Swing | |||||||
Elections in the 2010s[]
Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional[3][4] | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Labour | Mark Drakeford | 11,381 | 35.6 | -11.5 | 9,521 | 30.0 | -7.5 | |
Plaid Cymru | Neil McEvoy | 10,205 | 31.9 | +11.9 | 9,741 | 30.7 | +14.2 | |
Conservative | Sean Driscoll | 5,617 | 17.5 | -8.3 | 5,205 | 16.4 | -5.9 | |
UKIP | Gareth Bennett | 2,629 | 8.2 | New | 2,698 | 8.5 | +4.4 | |
Green | Hannah Pudner | 1,032 | 3.2 | New | 1,375 | 4.3 | -4.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Cadan ap Tomos | 868 | 2.7 | -4.3 | 1,222 | 3.8 | -1.7 | |
Independent | Eliot Freedman | 132 | 0.4 | New | ||||
Vapers in Power / Freedom to Choose | Lee Woolls | 96 | 0.3 | New | 47 | 0.1 | New | |
Abolish | 1,136 | 3.6 | New | |||||
Women's Equality | 448 | 1.4 | New | |||||
Monster Raving Loony | 113 | 0.3 | ||||||
TUSC | 98 | 0.3 | ||||||
Independent (Jonathan Bishop)[5] | 75 | 0.2 | ||||||
Communist | 73 | 0.2 | ||||||
Majority | 1,176 | 3.7 | -17.6 | |||||
Turnout | 31,960 | 48.4 | -4.6 | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | -11.7 |
Party | Candidate | Constituency [6] | Regional[7] | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Labour | Mark Drakeford | 13,067 | 47.1 | +8.5 | 10,413 | 37.5 | +4.8 | |
Conservative | Craig Williams | 7,166 | 25.8 | +1.1 | 6,187 | 22.3 | -0.1 | |
Plaid Cymru | Neil McEvoy | 5,551 | 20.0 | -1.3 | 4,581 | 16.5 | -2.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | David Paul Morgan | 1,942 | 7.0 | -8.2 | 1,523 | 5.5 | -6.2 | |
Green | 2,379 | 8.6 | +3.2 | |||||
UKIP | 1,146 | 4.1 | +2.0 | |||||
BNP | 514 | 1.9 | -1.8 | |||||
Socialist Labour | 494 | 1.8 | +1.1 | |||||
Welsh Christian | 224 | 0.8 | ±0.0 | |||||
Monster Raving Loony | 153 | 0.6 | New | |||||
TUSC | 96 | 0.3 | New | |||||
Communist | 56 | 0.2 | -0.1 | |||||
Majority | 1,782 | 21.3 | N/A | |||||
Turnout | 27,726 |
Regional ballots rejected at the count: 205[8]
Elections in the 2000s[]
Party | Candidate | Constituency [9] | Regional[10] | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Labour | Rhodri Morgan | 10,390 | 38.6 | -10.4 | 8,528 | 32.7 | -8.4 | |
Conservative | Craig Williams | 6,692 | 24.9 | +7.1 | 5,782 | 22.2 | +3.2 | |
Plaid Cymru | Neil McEvoy | 5,719 | 21.3 | +5.8 | 4,920 | 18.9 | +4.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alison R. Goldsworthy | 4,088 | 15.2 | +1.6 | 3,056 | 11.7 | -0.8 | |
Green | 1,410 | 5.4 | +0.6 | |||||
BNP | 970 | 3.7 | New | |||||
UKIP | 553 | 2.1 | -2.5 | |||||
Welsh Christian | 206 | 0.8 | New | |||||
Socialist Labour | 183 | 0.7 | -0.5 | |||||
Respect | 178 | 0.7 | New | |||||
Socialist Alternative | 92 | 0.3 | New | |||||
Communist | 78 | 0.3 | ±0.0 | |||||
CPA | 76 | 0.1 | New | |||||
Socialist Equality | 27 | 0.1 | New | |||||
Majority | 3,698 | 13.8 | -19.2 | |||||
Turnout | 26,889 | 41.6 | -6.2 | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | -8.8 |
Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional[11] | |||||
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Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
Labour | Rhodri Morgan | 10,420 | 50.3 | -11.3 | 8,568 | 41.2 | ||
Conservative | Heather Douglas | 3,583 | 17.3 | -2.5 | 3,947 | 19.0 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Jacqui Gasson | 2,914 | 14.1 | -5.2 | 2,604 | 12.5 | ||
Plaid Cymru | Eluned M. Bush | 2,859 | 13.8 | -0.8 | 3,041 | 14.6 | ||
UKIP | Frank Hughes | 929 | 4.5 | New | 952 | 4.6 | ||
Green | 991 | 4.8 | ||||||
Socialist Labour | 255 | 1.2 | ||||||
Vote No 2 Stop the War | 151 | 0.7 | ||||||
New Millennium Bean Party | 146 | 0.7 | ||||||
ProLife Alliance | 41 | 0.2 | ||||||
Cymru Annibynnol | 56 | 0.3 | ||||||
Communist | 68 | 0.3 | ||||||
Majority | 6,837 | 33.0 | -13.8 | |||||
Turnout | 20,705 | 34.2 | -6.0 | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | -6.9 |
2003 Electorate: 60,523
Regional ballots rejected: 274
Elections in the 1990s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Labour | Rhodri Morgan | 14,305 | 61.6 | ||
Conservative | Myr Boult | 3,446 | 14.8 | ||
Plaid Cymru | Eluned Bush | 3,402 | 14.7 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Dewi H Garrow-Smith | 2,063 | 8.9 | ||
Majority | 10,859 | 46.8 | |||
Turnout | 23,216 | 40.2 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
References[]
- ^ [1] Cardiff West Statement of Persons Nominated
- ^ Hayward, Will (7 May 2021). "The voter turnout figures for every constituency in Wales". WalesOnline. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ [2] National Assembly – 5 May 2016 - South Wales Central
- ^ "Results and turnout at the 2016 National Assembly for Wales election". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
- ^ "Jonathan Bishop". Who Can I vote for?. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- ^ "Wales elections > Cardiff West". BBC News. 6 May 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
- ^ "Results and turnout at the 2011 National Assembly for Wales Election". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
- ^ "Results and turnout at the 2011 National Assembly for Wales election". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
- ^ Election results – 2007 Archived 9 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly for Wales
- ^ "2007 Assembly Election Results (updated) July 2007(PPage 78 of the PDF / Page 72 of booklet)" (PDF). National Assembly for Wales. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
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- ^ "Welsh Assembly Elections: 6 May 1999 - UK Parliament" (PDF).
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