Cardiff Central | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
Preserved county | South Glamorgan |
Population | 88,097 (2011 census)[1] |
Electorate | 64,225 (December 2010)[2] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Jo Stevens (Labour Party) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Cardiff North and Cardiff South East[3] |
1918–1950 | |
Seats | One |
Type of constituency | Borough constituency |
Created from | Cardiff |
Replaced by | Cardiff North and Cardiff West |
Overlaps | |
Senedd | Cardiff 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]
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