Preserved county West Glamorgan European Parliament constituency Wales Welsh assembly South Wales West Replaced by Swansea Party Labour Co-operative | Electorate 62,769 (December 2010) Member of parliament Geraint Davies Number of members 1 Created from Swansea | |
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Swansea West (Welsh: Gorllewin Abertawe) 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, and is currently represented by Geriant Davies of the Labour Co-operative party, who was first elected in the constituency in 2010.
Contents
The National Assembly for Wales 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).
Boundaries
The constituency comprises the electoral wards of Sketty, Castle, Killay South, Killay North, Dunvant, Uplands, Townhill, Cockett and Mayals.
Elections in the 2010s
1 Geraint Davies is a Labour Co-operative Party member but he was nominated as Welsh Labour .
Elections in the 1930s
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;