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Ceredigion Preseli — 2024
Ben Lake (Plaid Cymru) was elected with 21,738 votes— 46.9% of 46,302 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. 46.9% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −3.1 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 46,302
| 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 | Ben Lake | Plaid Cymru | 21,738 | 46.9% | −3.1 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Mark Williams | Liberal Democrats | 6,949 | 15.0% | — | |
| 3 | Jackie Jones | Labour Party (Labour and Co-operative) | 5,386 | 11.6% | — | |
| 4 | Karl Pollard | Reform UK | 5,374 | 11.6% | — | |
| 5 | Aled Thomas | Conservative Party | 4,763 | 10.3% | — | |
| 6 | Tomos Barlow | Green Party | 1,864 | 4.0% | — | |
| 7 | Taghrid Al-Mawed | Workers Party of Britain | 228 | 0.5% | — |
Source data: House of Commons Library general election results 2024, retrieved
2026-05-18, generated
2026-05-19
(Open Parliament Licence v3.0). ETL version parliament-etl@1. Methodology: how these numbers are computed.