Carmarthen East and Dinefwr (Constituency) 2019 results - General election results

Summary

Summary of the key information for the 2019 general election.

Plaid Cymru Hold

Jonathan Edwards

Majority

1,809

Electorate

57,419

Turnout

71.4%

Distribution of party votes by percentages.

Results for each party with number of votes, percentage share of the vote and changes since last election.

Candidate	Party	Votes	Vote (%)	Change (%)
Jonathan Edwards	PC	15,939	38.9	-0.4
Havard Hughes	Con	14,130	34.5	8.2
Maria Carroll	Lab	8,622	21.0	-8.8
Pete Prosser	BXT	2,311	5.6	5.6

The percentage share of the party vote by election year.

Year	PC	Con	Lab	BXT	UKIP	LD	Green	Oth
2005	45.9%	13.7%	28.3%	0.0%	1.7%	9.7%	0.0%	0.7%
2010	35.6%	22.4%	26.5%	0.0%	3.4%	12.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	38.4%	21.2%	24.2%	0.0%	11.1%	2.4%	2.8%	0.0%
2017	39.3%	26.3%	29.8%	0.0%	2.4%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	38.9%	34.5%	21.0%	5.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Majority is calculated as the difference between the winning % share of the vote and second place % share of the vote.

Share of the vote is calculated as the percentage of valid votes cast for each party.

Turnout is calculated as the percentage of electorate who voted.