Swansea West | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Swansea West in Wales | |
Preserved county | West Glamorgan |
Electorate | 74,236 (July 2024) |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1918 |
Member of Parliament | Torsten Bell (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Swansea and Gower |
Overlaps | |
Senedd | Swansea West, South Wales West |
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 Torsten Bell of Labour, who was first elected in the constituency in 2024.
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 2024 United Kingdom general election.[1]
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