🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales

74,805 electors

Active Seat

Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare

Current MP

Gerald Jones

🗳️ Election History

Elections

47.3%

Avg Turnout

Times Changed

2024

Current Party Since

Labour Gerald Jones Hold

Majority 7,447

Turnout 47.3%

Total Votes 35,215

✓ Gerald Jones

Labour

15,791

↓6.9pp

Gareth Thomas

Reform UK

8,344

↑13.0pp

Francis Whitefoot

Plaid Cymru

4,768

↑5.4pp

Amanda Jenner

Conservative

2,687

↓13.0pp

Jade Smith

Liberal Democrats

1,276

↑0.3pp

Peter Griffin

Green Party

1,231

—

Anthony Cole

Workers Party of Britain

531

—

Lorezo De Gregori

—

375

—

Bob Davenport

—

212

—

👥 Demographics

▲▼ changes shown vs 2021 Census

📊 Age

0 to 17

20.8%

65 and over

20.2% ▲0.0pp

50 to 64

20.1%

35 to 49

18.8%

25 to 34

13.1%

18 to 24

6.9%

🌍 Ethnicity

White

97.4%

Asian or Asian British

1.3%

Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups

0.9%

Other

0.3%

Black, African, Caribbean or Black British

0.2%

📊 Age

Under 18

20.8%

65 and over

20.2%

45 to 64

20.1%

18 to 29

20.0%

30 to 44

18.8%

⛪ Religion

No religion

51.8%

Christian

41.5%

Not answered

5.3%

Muslim

0.5%

Other religion

0.4%

Buddhist

0.2%

Hindu

0.2%

Sikh

0.1%

Jewish

0.0%

Previous MPs

Historical representatives of this constituency

📚

No previous MPs found

No historic membership records available for this constituency