Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe general election 2024: constituency result in full

Ruth Mosalski

5 July 2024 at 0:41 am·2-min read

Pen y Fan- the highest peak in south Wales, situated in the Brecon Beacons National Park. — -Credit: (Image: Justin Paget Photography Ltd/Getty)

Polls have closed in what is expected to be one of the seats to watch in Wales for the 2024 general election. This seat is expected to be extremely tight, according to pollsters, and a battle between the Conservative candidate Fay Jones and Lib Dem David Chadwick.

Liberal Democrat David Chadwick has been named MP for Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe. He defeated Wales Office minister Fay Jones, elected for the first time in 2019.

The seat had been expected to be tight and this was the case with Mr Chadwick receiving 13,736 votes, just ahead of Ms Jones on 12,264.

The patch, Wales' largest, changed as part of a review of parliamentary boundaries and has had a traditionally Labour-voting area of the Swansea valley added. Before that, this seat has changed hands between the Lib Dems and Conservatives in recent years and the MP most recently was Ms Jones, first elected in 2019.

Result:

David Chadwick (Lib Dem) - 13,736 Matthew James Dorrance (Labour) - 9,904 Emily Durrant (Plaid Cymru) - 2,218 Jonathan Harrington (Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party) - 372 Adam Hill (Reform UK) - 6,567 Fay Jones (Conservative) - 12,264 Amerjit Rosie Kaur-Dhaliwal (Green Party) - 1,188 Lady Lily the Pink (Monster Raving Loony Party) - 237

Where does the constituency cover?

This constituency includes Llandrindod North and South, Llangattock, Llangors, Ystradgynlais, Allt-wen, Pontardawe. Here is the map from the Boundary Commission for Wales for the Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe constituency:

What happened in the general election in 2019?

The full list of candidates:

David Chadwick (Lib Dem)
Matthew James Dorrance (Labour)
Emily Durrant (Plaid Cymru)
Jonathan Harrington (Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party)
Adam Hill (Reform UK)
Fay Jones (Conservative)
Amerjit Rosie Kaur-Dhaliwal (Green Party)
Lady Lily the Pink (Monster Raving Loony Party)

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Where does the constituency cover?

What happened in the general election in 2019?

The full list of candidates:

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