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2021 Welsh Assembly election results

	Winner	Labour Hold (30.7% majority)
	Constituency AM	Mark Drakeford
	Top-up region AMs	2 Conservative, 2 Plaid Cymru
	Region	South Wales Central

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

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
Mark Drakeford	Lab	17,665	48.4%	+12.7
Sean Driscoll	Con	6,454	17.7%	+0.1
Rhys ab Owen	Pla	5,897	16.1%	-15.8
David Griffin	Green	1,287	3.5%	+0.3
Heath Marshall	Lib	803	2.2%	-0.5

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 West results for Welsh Assembly election, 2016

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
Mark Drakeford	Lab	11,381	35.6%	-11.5
Neil McEvoy	Pla	10,205	31.9%	+11.9
Sean Driscoll	Con	5,617	17.6%	-8.3
Gareth Bennett	UKI	2,629	8.2%
Hannah Pudner	Gre	1,032	3.2%
Cadan ap Tomos	Lib	868	2.7%	-4.3
Eliot Freedman	Ind	132	0.4%
Lee Woolls	Ind	96	0.3%

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 West results for Welsh Assembly election, 2011

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
Mark Drakeford	Lab	13,067	47.1%	+8.5
Craig Williams	Con	7,167	25.8%	+1.0
Neil McEvoy	PC	5,551	20.0%	-1.2
David Morgan	LD	1,942	7.0%	-8.2

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

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	10,413	37.5%
Conservative Con	6,187	22.3%	2
Plaid Cymru PC	4,581	16.5%	1
Green Party Gre	2,379	8.6%
Liberal Democrats LD	1,523	5.5%	1
UK Independence Party UKIP	1,146	4.1%
British National Party BNP	514	1.9%
Socialist Labour Party SLA	494	1.8%
Other Oth	529	1.9%

Elected regional members for South Wales Central region

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

Cardiff West results for Welsh Assembly election, 2007

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share
H.R. Morgan	Lab	10,390	38.6%
C. Williams	Con	6,692	24.9%
N.J. McEvoy	PC	5,719	21.3%
A.R. Goldsworthy	LD	4,088	15.2%

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

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	8,528	31.9%
Conservative Con	5,782	21.6%	2
Plaid Cymru PC	4,920	18.4%	2
Liberal Democrats LD	3,056	11.4%
Green Party Gre	1,410	5.3%
UK Independence Party UKIP	1,204	4.5%
British National Party BNP	970	3.6%
Socialist Labour Party SLA	183	0.7%
Other Oth	657	2.5%

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 West results for Welsh Assembly election, 2003

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
H.R. Morgan	Lab	10,420	50.3%	-11.3
H. Douglas	Con	3,583	17.3%	+2.5
J-A. Gasson	LD	2,914	14.1%	+5.2
E.M. Bush	PC	2,859	13.8%	-0.8
F.R.W. Hughes	UKIP	929	4.5%

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 West results for Welsh Assembly election, 1999

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share
H.R. Morgan	Lab	14,305	61.6%
M.A. Boult	Con	3,446	14.8%
E.M. Bush	PC	3,402	14.7%
D.H. Garrow-Smith	LD	2,063	8.9%

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 West constituency

Last four Constituency AMs

2021

Mark Drakeford

Labour

2016

Mark Drakeford

Labour

2011

Mark Drakeford

Labour

2007

H.R. Morgan

Labour