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  Carmarthen East & Dinefwr - History
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Established May 01, 1997
Disbanded Still Active
Last ModifiedRBH December 07, 2019 07:29pm
DescriptionCarmarthenshire has played a significant role in Welsh politics for generations; from the anti-toll gate Rebecca rioters of the 1830s to Gwynfor Evans becoming Plaid Cymru's first MP in 1966. Today this can be a volatile parliamentary seat. Labour won back Carmarthen in 1970, clung on by just three votes in February 1974, only for Gwynfor Evans to regain it in that year's second general election in October. Labour were again triumphant in 1979, holding the parliamentary seat until 2001, by which time it had become Carmarthen East and Dinefwr. But Plaid were in the ascendant: Rhodri Glyn Thomas became the AM in 1999, and Adam Price its MP two years later. At the last election, it saw a 7.6% swing from Labour to Plaid Cymru where elsewhere in Wales Plaid failed to initiate the political turnaround they had hoped for. In the Assembly election in 2003, Rhodri Glyn Thomas was again comfortably returned as the constituency member, but his vote fell by 4.6%. Over half the constituency's population are Welsh speakers. It is largely rural, but also contains old mining areas in the Amman Valley. Carmarthenshire is also home to Middleton, the 568-acre National Botanic Garden of Wales, near Llanarthne. It was the first botanic garden to be built in the UK for over 200 years.

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Jul 18, 2022 Party Switch
 Jonathan Edwards(I)
1
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1
100.00%
Dec 12, 2019 General Election
 Jonathan Edwards(I)
15,939
38.87% 		 Havard Hughes
14,130
34.46% 		 Maria Rose Carroll
8,622
21.03% 		 Peter Graham Prosser
2,311
5.64%
Jun 08, 2017 General Election
 Jonathan Edwards(I)
16,127
39.31% 		 David Darkin
12,219
29.78% 		 Havard Hughes
10,778
26.27% 		 Neil Hamilton
985
2.40% 		 Lesley Prosser
920
2.24%
May 07, 2015 General Election
 Jonathan Edwards(I)
15,140
38.43% 		 Calum Higgins
9,541
24.22% 		 Matthew Paul
8,336
21.16% 		 Norma Woodward
4,363
11.07% 		 Ben Rice
1,091
2.77% 		 Sara Lloyd-Williams
928
2.36%
May 06, 2010 General Election
 Jonathan Edwards
13,546
35.64% 		 Christine Gwyther
10,065
26.48% 		 Andrew Morgan
8,506
22.38% 		 William Powell
4,609
12.13% 		 John Atkinson
1,285
3.38%
May 05, 2005 General Election
 Adam Price(I)
17,561
45.86% 		 Ross Hendry
10,843
28.32% 		 Suzy Davies
5,235
13.67% 		 Juliana Hughes
3,719
9.71% 		 Mike Squires
661
1.73% 		 Sid Whitworth
272
0.71%
Jun 07, 2001 General Election
 Adam Price
16,130
42.39% 		 Alan Williams(I)
13,540
35.58% 		 David Thomas
4,912
12.91% 		 Doiran Evans
2,815
7.40% 		 Mike Squires
656
1.72%
May 01, 1997 General Election
 Alan Williams(I)
17,907
42.91% 		 Rhodri Glyn Thomas
14,457
34.64% 		 Edmund R. Hayward
5,022
12.03% 		 Juliana Hughes
3,150
7.55% 		 Ian Humphrey-Evans
1,196
2.87%

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