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Wales · Constituency

Swansea West

Represented by Torsten Bell (Labour)

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Your member of parliament

Torsten Bell

Labour

Contact them, and see their voting record, on Parliament’s site

2024 general election

How the seat voted

Labour finished ahead of Reform UK by 8,515 votes.

Majority

8,515

23.9% of votes cast.

Turnout

48.0%

35,657 of 74,236 on the register.

Candidates

35,657 valid votes counted.

Official figure

2024 general election result, every candidate by votes received
Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Torsten BellElected	Labour	14,761	41.4%
Patrick Benham-Crosswell	Reform UK	6,246	17.5%
Michael O'Carroll	Liberal Democrat	4,367	12.2%
Gwyn Williams	Plaid Cymru	4,105	11.5%
Tara-Jane Sutcliffe	Conservative	3,536	9.9%
Peter Jones	Green Party	2,305	6.5%
Gareth Bromhall	Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition	337	0.9%

Safe. A comfortable margin. That describes the 2024 general election result only — arithmetic on the published count, not a forecast.

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