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2021 Welsh Assembly election results

	Winner	Labour Hold (26.8% majority)
	Constituency AM	Jenny Rathbone
	Top-up region AMs	2 Conservative, 2 Plaid Cymru
	Region	South Wales Central

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Cardiff Central results for Senedd Cymru / Welsh Parliament election, 2021

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
Jenny Rathbone	Lab	13,100	45.9%	+7.5
Rodney Berman	Lib	5,460	19.1%	-16.2
Calum Davies CON	Con	3,788	13.3%	+4.4
Wiliam Rees	Pla	3,470	12.2%	+4.7
Ceri Davies	Green	1,552	5.4%	+1.0

Share of top-up region votes: South Wales Central region

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	102,611	40.1%
Conservative Con	56,622	22.1%	2
Plaid Cymru PC	46,478	18.2%	2
Green Party Gre	14,478	5.7%
Liberal Democrats LD	11,821	4.6%
UK Independence Party UKIP	3,127	1.2%
Other Oth	20,700	8.1%

Elected regional members for South Wales Central region

	Party
Andrew RT Davies MS	Conservative Con
Joel James MS	Conservative Con
Rhys ab Owen MS	Plaid Cymru PC
Heledd Fychan MS	Plaid Cymru PC

Cardiff Central results for Welsh Assembly election, 2016

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
Jenny Rathbone	Lab	10,016	38.4%	+0.5
Eluned Parrott	Lib	9,199	35.3%	-2.4
Joel Williams	Con	2,317	8.9%	-6.2
Glyn Wise	Pla	1,951	7.5%	+0.3
Mohammed-Sarul Islam	UKI	1,223	4.7%
Amelia Womack	Gre	1,150	4.4%
Jane Croad	Ind	212	0.8%

Share of top-up region votes: South Wales Central region

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	78,366	33.9%
Plaid Cymru PC	48,357	20.9%	1
Conservative Con	42,185	18.3%	2
UK Independence Party UKIP	23,958	10.4%	1
Liberal Democrats LD	14,875	6.4%
Abo Abo	9,163	4.0%
Green Party Gre	7,949	3.4%
Other Oth	6,280	2.7%

Elected regional members for South Wales Central region

	Party
Neil McEvoy	Plaid Cymru PC
Andrew RT Davies	Conservative Con
David Melding	Conservative Con
Gareth Bennett	UK Independence Party UKIP

Cardiff Central results for Welsh Assembly election, 2011

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
Jenny Rathbone	Lab	8,954	37.9%	+16.0
Nigel Howells	LD	8,916	37.7%	-13.4
Matt Smith	Con	3,559	15.1%	+1.1
Chris Williams	PC	1,690	7.2%	-1.1
Mathab Khan	Ind	509	2.2%

Share of top-up region votes: South Wales Central region

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	7,778	32.8%
Liberal Democrats LD	6,130	25.9%	1
Conservative Con	3,820	16.1%	2
Green Party Gre	2,163	9.1%
Plaid Cymru PC	1,738	7.3%	1
UK Independence Party UKIP	789	3.3%
Socialist Labour Party SLA	337	1.4%
British National Party BNP	330	1.4%
Other Oth	622	2.6%

Elected regional members for South Wales Central region

	Party
Eluned Parrott	Liberal Democrats LD
David Melding	Conservative Con
Andrew R.T. Davies	Conservative Con
Leanne Wood	Plaid Cymru PC

Cardiff Central results for Welsh Assembly election, 2007

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share
J.E. Randerson	LD	11,462	51.2%
S. Lent	Lab	4,897	21.9%
A.P. Murphy	Con	3,137	14.0%
T.S. Whitfield	PC	1,855	8.3%
F.R.W. Hughes	UKIP	1,046	4.7%

Share of top-up region votes: South Wales Central region

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Liberal Democrats LD	8,281	37.0%
Labour Lab	4,845	21.6%
Conservative Con	3,476	15.5%	2
Plaid Cymru PC	2,051	9.2%	2
Green Party Gre	1,238	5.5%
UK Independence Party UKIP	769	3.4%
British National Party BNP	651	2.9%
Socialist Labour Party SLA	169	0.8%
Other Oth	905	4.0%

Elected regional members for South Wales Central region

	Party
David Melding	Conservative Con
Andrew R. T. Davies	Conservative Con
Leanne Wood	Plaid Cymru PC
Chris Franks	Plaid Cymru PC

Cardiff Central results for Welsh Assembly election, 2003

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
J.E. Randerson	LD	11,256	54.6%	+12.4
G.M. Mungham	Lab	4,100	19.9%	-10.1
C.S. Piper	Con	2,378	11.5%	-0.2
O.J. Thomas	PC	1,795	8.7%	-6.0
R.G. Raiz	SocAll	541	2.6%
C. Beany	Ind	289	1.4%
M.E. Jeremy	pl	239	1.2%

Share of top-up region votes: South Wales Central region

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	74,369	41.1%
Conservative Con	33,404	18.5%	2
Plaid Cymru Pla	27,956	15.4%
Liberal Democrats LD	24,926	13.8%
UK Independence Party UKIP	6,920	3.8%
Green Party Gre	6,047	3.3%
Socialist Labour Party SLA	3,217	1.8%
Other Oth	4,208	2.3%

Elected regional members for South Wales Central region

	Party
Jonathan Morgan	Conservative Con
David Melding	Conservative Con

Cardiff Central results for Welsh Assembly election, 1999

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share
J.E. Randerson	LD	10,937	42.3%
M. Drakeford	Lab	7,769	30.0%
O.J. Thomas	PC	3,795	14.7%
S. Jones	Con	3,034	11.7%
J. Goss	SocAll	338	1.3%

Share of top-up region votes: South Wales Central region

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	79,564	36.9%
Plaid Cymru Pla	58,080	27.0%
Conservative Con	34,944	16.2%	2
Liberal Democrats LD	30,911	14.3%
Green Party Gre	5,336	2.5%
Socialist Labour Party SLA	2,822	1.3%
Other Oth	3,821	1.8%

Elected regional members for South Wales Central region

	Party
Jonathan Morgan	Conservative Con
David Melding	Conservative Con

Seat background for Cardiff Central constituency

Last four Constituency AMs

2021

Jenny Rathbone

Labour

2016

Jenny Rathbone

Labour

2011

Jenny Rathbone

Labour

2007

J.E. Randerson

Liberal Democrats