Preseli Pembrokeshire LAB Hold

Welsh assembly election

constituency

	Preseli Pembrokeshire	LAB Hold

	CANDIDATE	PARTY	VOTES	%	+/-%
	Tamsin Dunwoody - Kneafsey	LAB	8067	35.3	1.0
	Paul Davies	CON	6741	29.5	6.9
	Sion Jobbins	PC	5227	22.9	-2.0
	Michael Warden	LD	2799	12.3	0.8
		MAJORITY	1326	5.8
		TURNOUT	23010	41.7	-12.3

ELECTORATE	55195

Top-up region: Mid and West Wales

DESCRIPTION: Preseli Pembrokeshire

This mostly rural seat brings together parts of English-speaking south Pembrokeshire and the Welsh-speaking northern part of the county. Preseli Pembrokeshire includes the ferry ports of Pembroke Dock and Fishguard, and much of Milford Haven, which has shifted its reliance to leisure and tourism as oil refining and fishing have declined. The area’s dramatic coastline lies within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, and St David's, the smallest city in Great Britain, is one of its major visitor attractions. The tourist industry was hit by the Sea Empress oil spillage disaster of 1995. A more recent blow was the foot-and-mouth epidemic. There is relatively high unemployment, particularly in the south of the constituency, and the Welsh assembly government announced a regeneration package at the beginning of this year.

Preseli Pembrokeshire was created in 1997 from part of the constituencies of Ceredigion and Pembroke North, and Pembroke. The Liberals, Plaid Cymru and Conservatives had all done well in various parts of it before its formation, but Labour has dominated the new seat at both Westminster and assembly elections. It lies within the Pembrokeshire local authority area, whose electors were the only voters in the western half of Wales to vote No in the devolution referendum.

PREVIOUS RESULTS

	1999 WELSH ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS		LAB WIN
	PARTY	VOTES	%
	LAB	9977	34.3
	PC	7239	24.8
	CON	6585	22.6
	LD	3338	11.5
	499	1944	6.7

	2001 GENERAL ELECTION		LAB WIN
	PARTY	VOTES	%
	LAB	15206	41.3
	CON	12260	33.3
	PC	4658	12.7
	LD	3882	10.6
	SLP	452	1.2
	UKIP	319	0.9