Ceredigion Preseli general election 2024: constituency result in full

Ruth Mosalski

4 July 2024 at 11:53 pm·1-min read

Plaid Cymru's Ben Lake has been elected as MP for Ceredigion Preseli. Seven candidates were standing but Mr Lake had largely been expected to win.

This newly-designed seat added around a third of the Conservative-leaning former Preseli Pembrokeshire constituency to the existing Ceredigion constituency. The new seat covers Aberystwyth, Aberaeron, Aberporth and St Dogmaels.

Result:

Taghrid Al-Mawed (Workers Party of Britain) - 228 Tomos Iwan Barlow (Green Party) - 1,864 Jackie Jones (Labour) - 5,386
Ben Morgan Lake (Plaid Cymru) - 21,778 Karl Robert Pollard (Reform UK) - 5,374 Aled Thomas (Conservatives) - 4,763 Mark Fraser Williams (Lib Dem) - 6,949

Where does the constituency cover?

It includes St Dogmaels, Capel Dewi, Aberaeron, Aberporth, numerous Aberystwyth wards, Fishguard and Goodwick.

What happened in the general election in 2019

Who is standing?

Taghrid Al-Mawed (Workers Party of Britain)
Tomos Iwan Barlow (Green Party)
Jackie Jones (Labour)
Ben Morgan Lake (Plaid Cymru)
Karl Robert Pollard (Reform UK)
Aled Thomas (Conservatives)
Mark Fraser Williams (Lib Dem)

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Where does the constituency cover?

What happened in the general election in 2019

Who is standing?

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