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Scoreboard
Party | Candidates | Votes | % | Net percentage change in seats |
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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
1,176Turnout
48.4%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 成人论坛 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%.