Английская Википедия:Cardiff Central (UK Parliament constituency)

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Cardiff Central (Шаблон:Lang-cy) is a borough constituency in the 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 system. The seat is currently held by Jo Stevens of the Labour Party. She was appointed as Shadow Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 6 April 2020.

The constituency is set to be abolished, as part of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies and under the June 2023 final recommendations of the Boundary Commission for Wales for the next United Kingdom general election. Its wards is to be split between Cardiff East and Cardiff South and Penarth.

Boundaries

Шаблон:Maplink 1918–1950: The County Borough of Cardiff wards of Canton, Cathays, Central, and Riverside.

1983–2010: The City of Cardiff wards of Adamsdown, Cathays, Cyncoed, Pentwyn, Plasnewydd, and Roath.

2010–present: The Cardiff electoral divisions of Adamsdown, Cathays, Cyncoed, Pentwyn, Penylan, and Plasnewydd.

As its name suggests, Cardiff Central covers the central area of the City of Cardiff. It extends from the area around the Millennium Stadium in the south to Llanishen Golf Course in the north, taking in the City Centre and the University.

History

This was a Conservative-held three-way marginal constituency throughout the 1980s but since 1997 Labour and the Liberal Democrats have pushed the Conservative candidate into third place. The Liberal Democrats won the equivalent Welsh Assembly seat in 1999 and 2003 and also dominate the wards which make up the seat in elections to Cardiff Council.

The constituency is socially diverse, with both very affluent and very deprived areas. It has a large student population which seems to have helped Labour to win in 1992 and 1997 but thereafter increasingly switched to the Liberal Democrats due to opposition to government plans for reforming student support. This switched yet again in the 2015 general election where students were disillusioned by the broken promises the Liberal Democrats made regarding tuition fees. This was despite the fact that these student loan promises did not apply to Wales, which has a different funding system and MP Jenny Willott had also voted against the English changes in Parliament.

The seat was unchanged in the Fifth Periodical Report of the Parliamentary Boundary Commission for Wales, which took effect at the 2010 general election.

Since the seat's re-creation in 1983, it has been held successively by each of the three main political parties; the Liberal Democrats gained it at the 2005 election after 13 years of Labour representation. The constituency has transformed dramatically from being a Conservative seat for some years, to a Labour–Lib Dem marginal to the safest Labour seat in Wales today.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1918–1950

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1918	James Childs Gould	Unionist
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1924	Lewis Lougher	Unionist
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1929	Ernest Bennett	Labour
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1931		National Labour
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1945	George Thomas	Labour
	1950	constituency abolished

MPs since 1983

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1983	Ian Grist	Conservative
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1992	Jon Owen Jones	Labour Co-operative
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	2005	Jenny Willott	Liberal Democrat
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	2015	Jo Stevens	Labour

Elections

Elections 1918–1945

Elections in the 1910s

• coupon issued but withdrawn.

Elections in the 1940s

General election 1939–40: Another general election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

• National Labour: Ernest Bennett
• Labour: John Ramage

Elections 1983 to current

Elections in the 2010s

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• 81 were either unmarked or it was uncertain who the vote was for.
• 32 voted for more than one candidate.
• 4 had writing or a mark by which the voter could be identified.

Of the 80 rejected ballots:

• 59 were either unmarked or it was uncertain who the vote was for.
• 19 voted for more than one candidate.
• 2 had writing or a mark by which the voter could be identified.

Of the 204 rejected ballots:

• 166 were either unmarked or it was uncertain who the vote was for.
• 38 voted for more than one candidate.

See also

• Cardiff Central (Senedd constituency)
• List of parliamentary constituencies in South Glamorgan
• List of parliamentary constituencies in Wales

External links

• nomis Constituency Profile for Cardiff Central – presenting data from the ONS annual population survey and other official statistics.
• Politics Resources (Election results from 1922 onwards)
• Electoral Calculus (Election results from 1955 onwards)
• 2017 Election House Of Commons Library 2017 Election report
• A Vision Of Britain Through Time (Constituency elector numbers)
• BBC Vote 2001
• BBC Election 2005
• UK Constituency Maps