| Swansea West Borough constituency |
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| Swansea West shown within Wales | |
| Created: | 1918 |
| MP: | Alan Williams |
| Party: | Labour |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Preserved county: | West Glamorgan |
| EP constituency: | Wales |
Swansea West is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
The National Assembly for Wales constituency of the same name presently has the same boundaries.
Alan Williams has represented the seat for the Labour Party since the 1964 general election; since 2005 he has been the 'Father of the House', the senior Member of Parliament with the longest unbroken service. Williams will not contest the next general election, thus ending a parliamentary career of over 40 years.
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Boundaries
The constituency comprises the electoral wards of Sketty, Castle, Killay South, Killay North, Dunvant, Uplands, Townhill, Cockett and Mayals.
Politics
The more middle-class of the two Swansea seats, with the impending retirement of Alan Williams it is now regarded as a marginal seat due to the close result of the Assembly Elections in 2007 where the Labour vote was reduced to a majority of 1,511 over the Liberal Democrats. Williams will retire from Parliament at the next general election, potentially putting Swansea West into play as a Liberal Democrat target seat: but the Labour majority of 4,269 is still a respectable 12% of the vote. It is also notable that this seat has never passed to (different) MPs of the same party, each being succeeded by a member of a different party.
Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1918 | Sir Alfred Mond | Liberal | |
| 1923 | Howel Samuel | Labour | |
| 1924 | Walter Runciman | Liberal | |
| 1929 | Howel Samuel | Labour | |
| 1931 | Sir Lewis Jones | National Liberal | |
| 1945 | Percy Morris | Labour | |
| 1959 | Hugh Rees | Conservative | |
| 1964 | Alan Williams | Labour | |
Election results
| Confirmed candidates for the next UK general election [1] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour Co-op | Geraint Davies | ||||
| Conservative | Rene Kinzett | ||||
| Liberal Democrat | Peter May | ||||
| General Election 2005: Swansea West | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Alan Williams | 13,833 | 41.8 | -6.9 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Rene Kinzett | 9,564 | 28.9 | +12.3 | |
| Conservative | Mohammed Abdel-Haq | 5,285 | 16.0 | -3.0 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Harri Roberts | 2,150 | 6.5 | -4.1 | |
| Green | Martyn Shrewsbury | 738 | 2.2 | +0.2 | |
| UKIP | Martyn Ford | 609 | 1.8 | -0.2 | |
| Veritas | Yvonne Holley | 401 | 1.2 | +1.2 | |
| Socialist Alternative | Robert Williams | 288 | 0.9 | +0.9 | |
| Legalise Cannabis | Steve Pank | 218 | 0.7 | +0.7 | |
| Majority | 4,269 | 12.9 | |||
| Turnout | 33,086 | 57.1 | +1.3 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -9.6 | |||
| General Election 2001: Swansea West | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Alan Williams | 15,644 | 48.7 | -7.5 | |
| Conservative | Margaret Harper | 6,094 | 19.0 | -1.5 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Mike Day | 5,313 | 16.6 | +2.0 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Ian Titherington | 3,404 | 10.6 | +4.0 | |
| UKIP | Richard Lewis | 653 | 2.0 | N/A | |
| Green | Martyn Shrewsbury | 626 | 2.0 | N/A | |
| Socialist Alliance | Alec Thraves | 366 | 1.1 | N/A | |
| Majority | 9,550 | 29.7 | |||
| Turnout | 32,100 | 55.8 | -11.8 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -6.0 | |||
See also
References
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Linlithgow |
Constituency represented by the Father of the House 2005 – present |
Succeeded by incumbent |
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