Swansea West (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1918 onwards / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Swansea West (Welsh: Gorllewin Abertawe) is a constituency[n 1] 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, and is currently represented by Geraint Davies of Labour Co-op, who was first elected in the constituency in 2010.
Swansea West | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
Preserved county | West Glamorgan |
Electorate | 62,769 (December 2010)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1918 |
Member of Parliament | Geraint Davies (Independent) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Swansea and Gower |
Overlaps | |
Senedd | Swansea West, South Wales West |
The Senedd constituency of the same name presently has the same boundaries.
Alan Williams represented the seat for the Labour Party from 1964 until his retirement in 2010; from 2005 until his retirement he was the Father of the House (meaning longest-serving MP currently sitting).
The constituency is to retain its name but its boundaries altered, 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.[2]