UK general elections › 2017 › Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
Carmarthen East and Dinefwr — 2017
Jonathan Edwards (Plaid Cymru) was elected with 16,127 votes— 39.3% of 41,029 valid votes. Under First Past the Post, a plurality is enough; a majority is not required.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 39.3% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −10.7 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 41,029
| Rank | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share of votes Candidate votes ÷ valid votes in this constituency. Matches the share the returning officer publishes. | Below quota Elected candidate's share of valid votes minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = won the seat below the quota; positive = cleared it. | Elected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jonathan Edwards | Plaid Cymru | 16,127 | 39.3% | −10.7 pts | Elected |
| 2 | David Darkin | Labour Party | 12,219 | 29.8% | — | |
| 3 | Havard Hughes | Conservative Party | 10,778 | 26.3% | — | |
| 4 | Neil Hamilton | UK Independence Party | 985 | 2.4% | — | |
| 5 | Lesley Prosser | Liberal Democrats | 920 | 2.2% | — |
Source data: UK Parliament psephology database, retrieved
2026-05-19, generated
2026-05-19
(Open Parliament Licence v3.0). ETL version parliament-etl-psephology@1. Methodology: how these numbers are computed.