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Wales Results

Welsh Assembly Results
Party Welsh Labour Plaid Cymru Welsh Conservative UKIP Wales Welsh Liberal Democrat
Seats 29 12 11 7 1
Change −1 +1 −3 +7 −4

After 60 of 60 seats About these resultsResults in full

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  4. Mapping the election - see party vote share by constituency across Wales

Cardiff West

Welsh Assembly constituency Region - South Wales Central
Result: LAB HOLD

Scoreboard

Party Candidates Votes % Net percentage change in seats
Party

LAB

Welsh Labour

 Candidates Mark Drakeford Votes 11,381 35.6% Net percentage change in seats −11.5
Party

PC

Plaid Cymru

 Candidates Neil McEvoy Votes 10,205 31.9% Net percentage change in seats +11.9
Party

CON

Welsh Conservative

 Candidates Sean Driscoll Votes 5,617 17.6% Net percentage change in seats −8.3
Party

UKIP

UKIP Wales

 Candidates Gareth Bennett Votes 2,629 8.2% Net percentage change in seats +8.2
Party

GRN

Wales Green Party

 Candidates Hannah Pudner Votes 1,032 3.2% Net percentage change in seats +3.2
Party

LD

Welsh Liberal Democrat

 Candidates Cadan ap Tomos Votes 868 2.7% Net percentage change in seats −4.3
Party

IND

Independent

 Candidates Eliot Freedman Votes 132 0.4% Net percentage change in seats +0.4
Party

VIP

Vapers In Power

 Candidates Lee David Votes 96 0.3% Net percentage change in seats +0.3

Change compared with 2011

Turnout and Majority

Welsh Labour Majority

1,176

Turnout

48.4%

Vote share

Party %
Welsh Labour 35.6
Plaid Cymru 31.9
Welsh Conservative 17.6
UKIP Wales 8.2
Wales Green Party 3.2
OTHERS 3.4

Vote share change since 2011

−%
+%
Plaid Cymru
+11.9
UKIP Wales
+8.2
Wales Green Party
+3.2
Welsh Conservative
−8.3
Welsh Labour
−11.5
Wales Constituencies and Regions A-Z

Constituency Profile

Cardiff West extends from the inner city area of Riverside to villages and suburbs on the edge of the city near the Vale of Glamorgan.

The seat is home to the Cardiff City Stadium, Glamorgan Cricket's Swalec Stadium and BBC Cymru Wales' headquarters in Llandaff. It's been represented by former Commons Speaker George Thomas (later Viscount Tonypandy) and by former First Minister Rhodri Morgan, who has been the local AM and MP. Mr Morgan was succeeded as an AM in 2011 by one of his former advisers, Mark Drakeford, now the health minister in Carwyn Jones's Welsh Government. He is defending a majority of 5,901.

In 2011, Labour won 47.1% of the vote, the Conservatives had 25.8%, Plaid Cymru 20% and the Liberal Democrats 7%.

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