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2021 Welsh Assembly election results

	Winner	Labour Hold (43.9% majority)
	Constituency AM	Mike Hedges
	Top-up region AMs	2 Conservative, 2 Plaid Cymru
	Region	South Wales West

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Swansea East results for Senedd Cymru / Welsh Parliament election, 2021

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
Mike Hedges	Lab	12,950	58.6%	+6.4
Rhiannon Barrar	Pla	3,250	14.7%	+1.4
Cameron Brennan	Con	2,947	13.3%	+4.9
Sam Bennett	Lib	1,055	4.8%	-2.9
Dan Morgan	UKI	567	2.6%

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

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	78,318	44.6%
Conservative Con	38,244	21.8%	2
Plaid Cymru PC	33,753	19.2%	2
Green Party Gre	7,155	4.1%
Liberal Democrats LD	6,010	3.4%
UK Independence Party UKIP	2,809	1.6%
Other Oth	9,432	5.4%

Elected regional members for South Wales West region

	Party
Tom Giffard	Conservative Con
Altaf Hussain	Conservative Con
Luke Fletcher	Plaid Cymru PC
Sioned Williams	Plaid Cymru PC

Swansea East results for Welsh Assembly election, 2016

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
Mike Hedges	Lab	10,726	52.1%	-6.2
Clifford Johnson	UKI	3,274	15.9%
Dic Jones	Pla	2,744	13.3%	+0.9
Sadie Vidal	Con	1,729	8.4%	-6.2
Charlene Anika Webster	Lib	1,574	7.6%	-1.2
Tony Young	Gre	529	2.6%

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

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	66,903	39.5%
Plaid Cymru PC	29,050	17.2%	2
Conservative Con	25,414	15.0%	1
UK Independence Party UKIP	23,096	13.7%	1
Liberal Democrats LD	10,946	6.5%
Abo Abo	7,137	4.2%
Green Party Gre	4,420	2.6%
Other Oth	2,223	1.3%

Elected regional members for South Wales West region

	Party
Bethan Jenkins	Plaid Cymru PC
Dai Lloyd	Plaid Cymru PC
Suzy Davies	Conservative Con
Caroline Jones	UK Independence Party UKIP

Swansea East results for Welsh Assembly election, 2011

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
Michael Hedges	Lab	11,035	58.4%	+16.9
Dan Boucher	Con	2,754	14.6%	+4.8
Dic Jones	PC	2,346	12.4%	-3.1
Sam Samuel	LD	1,673	8.8%	-8.7
Joanne Shannon	BNP	1,102	5.8%

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

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	9,902	52.0%
Conservative Con	2,196	11.5%	2
Plaid Cymru PC	2,158	11.3%	1
Liberal Democrats LD	1,572	8.3%	1
British National Party BNP	886	4.7%
UK Independence Party UKIP	869	4.6%
Socialist Labour Party SLA	703	3.7%
Green Party Gre	398	2.1%
Other Oth	360	1.9%

Elected regional members for South Wales West region

	Party
Suzy Davies	Conservative Con
Byron Davies	Conservative Con
Bethan Jenkins	Plaid Cymru PC
Peter Black	Liberal Democrats LD

Swansea East results for Welsh Assembly election, 2007

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share
V.L. Lloyd	Lab	8,590	41.5%
H.C. Clarke	LD	3,629	17.5%
D. Bowles	PC	3,218	15.5%
R.T. Dowdle	Con	2,025	9.8%
D.A. Robinson	UKIP	1,618	7.8%
A.R. Welsby	Ind	1,177	5.7%
G.D. Evans	Ind	460	2.2%

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

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	7,806	37.6%
Liberal Democrats LD	3,528	17.0%	1
Plaid Cymru PC	3,217	15.5%	2
Conservative Con	1,858	9.0%	1
British National Party BNP	1,681	8.1%
UK Independence Party UKIP	1,025	4.9%
Green Party Gre	576	2.8%
Socialist Labour Party SLA	271	1.3%
Other Oth	776	3.7%

Elected regional members for South Wales West region

	Party
Peter Black	Liberal Democrats LD
Bethan Jenkins	Plaid Cymru PC
David Lloyd	Plaid Cymru PC
Alun Cairns	Conservative Con

Swansea East results for Welsh Assembly election, 2003

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
V.L. Lloyd	Lab	8,221	47.2%	+1.6
P.M. Black	LD	4,224	24.3%	+5.2
D.R. Evans	PC	2,223	12.8%	-14.7
D.A. Robinson	UKIP	1,474	8.5%
P.A. Morris	Con	1,135	6.5%	-1.5
A. Thomson	SocAll	133	0.8%

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

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	58,066	41.6%
Plaid Cymru Pla	24,799	17.8%
Conservative Con	20,981	15.0%	1
Liberal Democrats LD	17,746	12.7%	1
Green Party Gre	6,696	4.8%
UK Independence Party UKIP	6,113	4.4%
Socialist Labour Party SLA	3,446	2.5%
Other Oth	1,701	1.2%

Elected regional members for South Wales West region

	Party
Alun Cairns	Conservative Con
Peter Black	Liberal Democrats LD

Swansea East results for Welsh Assembly election, 1999

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share
V.A. Feld	Lab	9,495	45.6%
Dr. J.G. Ball	PC	5,714	27.4%
P.M. Black	LD	3,963	19.0%
W. Hughes	Con	1,663	8.0%

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

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	70,625	42.3%
Plaid Cymru Pla	50,757	30.4%
Conservative Con	20,993	12.6%	1
Liberal Democrats LD	18,527	11.1%	1
Green Party Gre	4,082	2.4%
Other Oth	2,137	1.3%

Elected regional members for South Wales West region

	Party
Alun Cairns	Conservative Con
Peter Black	Liberal Democrats LD

Seat background for Swansea East constituency

Last four Constituency AMs

2021

Mike Hedges

Labour

2016

Mike Hedges

Labour

2011

Michael Hedges

Labour

2007

V.L. Lloyd

Labour