Cardiff Central (UK Parliament constituency)

Cardiff Central
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Outline map
Boundary of Cardiff Central in Wales
Preserved countySouth Glamorgan
Population88,097 (2011 census)[1]
Electorate64,225 (December 2010)[2]
Current constituency
Created1983
Member of ParliamentJo Stevens (Labour Party)
SeatsOne
Created fromCardiff North and Cardiff South East[3]
19181950
SeatsOne
Type of constituencyBorough constituency
Created fromCardiff
Replaced byCardiff North and Cardiff West
Overlaps
SeneddCardiff Central, South Wales Central

Cardiff Central (Welsh: Canol Caerdydd) is a borough constituency[n 1] in the city of Cardiff. It returns one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system. The seat is currently held by Jo Stevens of the Labour Party. She was appointed as Shadow Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 6 April 2020.

The constituency is set to be abolished, 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 next United Kingdom general election. Its wards is to be split between Cardiff East and Cardiff South and Penarth.[4]

  1. ^ "Cardiff Central: Usual Resident Population, 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
  2. ^ "Beyond 20/20 WDS – Table view". 2011 Electorate Figures. StatsWales. 1 December 2010. Archived from the original on 3 October 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
  3. ^ "'Cardiff Central', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
  4. ^ 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituencies - The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituencies in Wales (PDF). Boundary Commission for Wales. 28 June 2023.


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