Preseli_Pembrokeshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)
Preseli Pembrokeshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1997 onwards
Preseli Pembrokeshire (Welsh: Preseli Sir Benfro) is a seat and constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.[n 1]
The Preseli Pembrokeshire Senedd constituency was created with the same boundaries in 1999.
Its MP, who has held the seat since 2005, is the Conservative Stephen Crabb, who was Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Work and Pensions Secretary) from March to July 2016. The seat was held by Labour's candidate from its creation in 1997 until 2005. The Labour and Conservative parties have won at least 27.7% of the vote apiece since its 1997 creation, with the next-placed parties having reached a maximum of 14.5% of the vote to date in a generally broad field.
The seat attracted five candidates in 2010, eight in 2015 (an election in which five of the deposits were refunded and three lost) and seven in 2017. At the 2017 election, Crabb's majority was the 27th closest out of the 650 Commons seats, 0.8% or 314 votes.[2] In 2019, there were four candidates; Crabb retained the seat with an increased majority.
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 Ceredigion Preseli, and Mid and South Pembrokeshire.[3]