Cardiff West (UK Parliament constituency)

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Cardiff West Borough constituency
Cardiff West shown within Wales
Created:	1950
MP:	Kevin Brennan
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
Preserved county:	South Glamorgan
EP constituency:	Wales

Cardiff West (Gorllewin Caerdydd in Welsh) is a borough constituency in thr city of Cardiff]. It returns one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 3.1 Elections in the 2000s 3.2 ELections in the 1990s 3.3 Elections in the 1980s 3.4 Elections in the 1970s 4 See also

[edit] Boundaries

A traditionally safe Labour seat which used to return the House of Commons speaker George Thomas. It returned a Tory only once, in Labour's disaster year of 1983, in the shape of the colourful Ukrainian Stefan Terlezki, but returned to the Labour fold safely with the sometimes equally colourful Rhodri Morgan (whose wife represents the neighbouring Cardiff North). After stepping down from the Westminster seat in 2001, he is now the Labour leader of the Welsh Assembly, and has often been in conflict with the Labour national government at Westminster; he is much more Old Labour than New Labour.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1950	George Thomas	Labour
	1983	Stefan Terlezki	Conservative
	1987	Rhodri Morgan	Labour
	2001	Kevin Brennan	Labour

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Cardiff West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kevin Brennan	15,729	45.5	-9.1
	Conservative	Simon Baker	7,562	21.9	+0.6
	Liberal Democrats	Alison Goldsworthy	6,060	17.5	+4.4
	Plaid Cymru	Neil McEvoy	4,316	12.5	+2.8
	UK Independence	Joe Callan	727	2.1	+0.7
	Rainbow Dream Ticket	Catherine Taylor-Dawson	167	0.5	+0.5
Majority			8,167	23.6
Turnout			34,561	57.7	-0.7
	Labour hold		Swing	-4.8

General Election 2001: Cardiff West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kevin Brennan	18,594	54.6	-5.8
	Conservative	Andrew Davies	7,273	21.3	-0.2
	Liberal Democrats	Jacqui Gasson	4,458	13.1	+2.2
	Plaid Cymru	Delme Bowen	3,296	9.7	+4.8
	UK Independence	Joyce Jenking	462	1.4	N/A
Majority			11,321	33.3
Turnout			34,083	58.4	-10.7
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] ELections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Cardiff West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rhodri Morgan	24,297	60.3
	Conservative	Simon Hoare	8,669	21.5
	Liberal Democrats	Jacqui Gasson	4,366	10.8
	Plaid Cymru	G. Carr	1,949	4.8
	Referendum Party	T. Johns	996	2.5	N/A
Majority			15,628
Turnout				69.2
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1992: Cardiff West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rhodri Morgan	24,306	53.2
	Conservative	Michael Prior	15,015	32.9
	Liberal Democrats	Jacqui Gasson	5,002	10.9
	Plaid Cymru	Penni Bestic	1,177	2.6
	Natural Law	A. Harding	184	0.4	N/A
Majority			9,291
Turnout				77.6
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Cardiff West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rhodri Morgan	20,329	45.5
	Conservative	Stefan Terlezki	16,284	36.5
	Social Democrat	R. G. Drake	7,300	16.4
	Plaid Cymru	P. J. Keelan	736	1.7
Majority			4,045	9.1
Turnout				77.8
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1983: Cardiff West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stefan Terlezki	15,472	38.0
	Labour	D. Seligman	13,698	33.6
	Social Democrat	Jeffrey Thomas	10,388	25.5
	Plaid Cymru	M. Parri	848	2.1
	Ecology	G. Jones	352	0.9
Majority			1,774	4.4
Turnout				69.6
	Conservative gain from Speaker		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1979: Cardiff West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Speaker	George Thomas	27,035	85.6
	Plaid Cymru	A. Ogwen	3,272	10.4
	National Front	C. Gibbon	1,287	4.1
Majority			23,763	75.2
Turnout				60.8
	Speaker gain from Labour		Swing

General Election October 1974: Cardiff West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Thomas	18,153	50.0
	Conservative	W. F. Dunn	11,481	31.6
	Liberal	R. M. James	4,669	12.9
	Plaid Cymru	D. Hughes	2,008	5.5
Majority			6,672	18.4
Turnout				69.7
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Cardiff West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Thomas	16,712	44.0
	Conservative	G. J. Neale	13,366	35.2
	Liberal	R. M. James	5,812	15.3
	Plaid Cymru	D. Hughes	2,093	5.5
Majority			3,346	8.8
Turnout				73.6
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1970: Cardiff West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Thomas	21,655	49.8
	Conservative	R. C. Williams	15,878	36.5
	Plaid Cymru	D. Hughes	4,378	10.1
	Liberal	S. Wanhill	1,594	3.7
Majority			5,777	13.3
Turnout				71.0
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in South Glamorgan

Constituencies in Wales
Labour	Aberavon | Alyn and Deeside | Bridgend | Caerphilly | Cardiff North | Cardiff South and Penarth | Cardiff West | Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire | Clwyd South | Conwy | Cynon Valley | Delyn | Gower | Islwyn | Llanelli | Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | Neath | Newport East | Newport West | Ogmore | Pontypridd | Rhondda | Swansea East | Swansea West | Torfaen | Vale of Clwyd | Vale of Glamorgan | Wrexham | Ynys Môn
Liberal Democrat	Brecon and Radnorshire | Cardiff Central | Ceredigion | Montgomeryshire
Conservative	Clwyd West | Monmouth | Preseli Pembrokeshire
Plaid Cymru	Caernarfon | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | Meirionnydd Nant Conwy
Independent	Blaenau Gwent
Wales European constituency: Labour (2) | Conservative (1) | Plaid Cymru (1)