Cardiff North () is a
constituency
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represented in the
House of Commons
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of the
UK Parliament
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since
2017
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by
Anna McMorrin
Anna Rhiannon McMorrin (born 24 September 1971) is a Welsh Labour Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cardiff North since 2017. She has served as the Shadow Minister for Victims and Youth Justice since 2021, and was a ...
of the
Labour Party.
The seat has been relative to others a
marginal seat
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since 2001 as well as a swing seat as its winner's majority has not exceeded 8% of the vote since the 14.3% majority won in that year. The seat has changed political allegiance twice since that year.
History
This seat is the residential quarter of Wales' capital, over half of northern Cardiff consists of owner-occupied housing, with a higher number of a middle class population than other sections. Historically it has mainly elected
Conservative
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MPs, but with new housing development
Welsh Labour
Welsh Labour ( cy, Llafur Cymru) is the branch of the United Kingdom Labour Party in Wales and the largest party in modern Welsh politics. Welsh Labour and its forebears won a plurality of the Welsh vote at every UK general election since 192 ...
has overturned the nominal majority more recently, turning the seat into a national target swing-constituency. By 2004, the Conservatives held a majority of councillors within the district (13, against five Liberal Democrats, three independents and no Labour), but in the following 2005 general election Welsh Labour's
Julie Morgan
Julie Morgan (née Edwards; 2 November 1944) is a Welsh Labour Party politician, who has been a Member of the Senedd for Cardiff North seat in the Senedd since the 2011 election. She was previously Member of Parliament (MP) for Cardiff Nor ...
retained the seat but with a reduced majority.
BBC News
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political editor
Nick Robinson profiled the constituency as part of the BBC's build-up to the 2010 general election:
saying:
Morgan stood again for Welsh Labour in 2010, whilst the Conservatives chose
Jonathan Evans MEP, who had previously been the MP for
Brecon and Radnor. Evans won by 194 votes.
In 2015, Labour attempted to take the seat back but new candidate,
Craig Williams, took it with a majority of 2,137. Many had expected it to be very close run again. Labour retook the seat in 2017 on a 6.1% swing, producing a majority of 4,174; this was the first time in the seat's history it had voted for a Labour candidate in an election they did not win and the first time it elected an MP who is not a member of the largest party in the House of Commons since
October 1974. In 2019, the seat bucked the trend by swinging to Labour despite their heavy defeat nationally.
Boundaries
1950–1974: The County Borough of Cardiff wards of Cathays, Central, Gabalfa, Penylan, and Plasnewydd.
1974–1983: The County Borough of Cardiff wards of Cathays, Central, Penylan, and Plasnewydd.
1983–2010: The City of Cardiff wards of Gabalfa,
Heath
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,
Lisvane and St Mellons
Lisvane and St Mellons was an electoral ward in the northeast of the city of Cardiff, Wales. It included the communities of Lisvane and St Mellons.
The ward was created following ''The City of Cardiff (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1982'', comin ...
, Llandaff North,
Llanishen
Llanishen (Welsh language, Welsh Llanisien ''llan'' church + ''Isien'' Saint Isan) is a district and Community (Wales), community in the north of Cardiff, Wales. Its population as of the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census was 17,417. Lla ...
,
Rhiwbina
Rhiwbina ( cy, Rhiwbeina, also ''Rhiwbina'') is a suburb and community in the north of Cardiff, the capital of Wales. Formerly a small hamlet within the parish of Whitchurch, Rhiwbina was developed throughout the twentieth century, and is now a ...
, and
Whitchurch and Tongwynlais.
2010–present: The Cardiff electoral divisions of Gabalfa, Heath, Lisvane, Llandaff North, Llanishen, Pontprennau and Old St Mellons, Rhiwbina, and Whitchurch and Tongwynlais.
Cardiff city centre was in this constituency from its creation in 1950 until 1983, since when it has been in Cardiff Central.
Members of Parliament
Elections
Elections in the 1950s
Elections in the 1960s
Elections in the 1970s
Elections in the 1980s
Elections in the 1990s
Elections in the 2000s
Elections in the 2010s
Of the 80 rejected ballots:
*64 were either unmarked or it was uncertain who the vote was for.
[
*14 voted for more than one candidate.][
*2 had writing or mark by which the voter could be identified.][
Of the 98 rejected ballots:
*77 were either unmarked or it was uncertain who the vote was for.][
*21 voted for more than one candidate.][
Of the 111 rejected ballots:
*86 were either unmarked or it was uncertain who the vote was for.][
*22 voted for more than one candidate.][
*3 had writing or mark by which the voter could be identified.][
]
See also
* Cardiff North (Senedd constituency)
Cardiff North () is a constituency of the Senedd. It elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of eight constituencies in the South Wales Central electoral region, which elects fou ...
* List of parliamentary constituencies in South Glamorgan
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The Preserved county of South Glamorgan is divided into five United Kingdom constituencies, parliamentary constituencies: four Borough constituency, borough constituencies
and one county constituency. The current boundaries have been ef ...
*
* List of parliamentary constituencies in Wales
Wales is currently divided into forty constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which elect Members of Parliament to the House of Commons. After the General Election of December 2019, 22 of the Welsh constituencies are repre ...
Notes
References
External links
nomis Constituency Profile for Cardiff North
– presenting data from the ONS annual population survey and other official statistics.
(Election results from 1922 onwards)
(Election results from 1955 onwards)
2017 Election
House Of Commons Library 2017 Election report
A Vision Of Britain Through Time
(Constituency elector numbers)
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Politics of Cardiff
Parliamentary constituencies in South Wales
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1950