Ceredigion (UK Parliament constituency) known as Ceredigion and Pembroke North. The constituency name was shortened to Ceredigion for the 1997 as it reverted to its former borders, having lost the part of North Pembrokeshire in boundary changes. Mark Williams, first elected in 2005, was the first non-Welsh speaking Member of Parliament elected to represent the constituency since Bowen Rowlands (MP from 1886 until 1892, who declared at a meeting in Aberystwyth when adopted as candidate that he could not speak Welsh). At the 2010 general election, he received a massive increase in his vote, polling over 50% of the votes cast and raising his
Welsh Liberal Democrats Welsh Liberal Democrats The Welsh Liberal Democrats () is a political party in Wales and a member of the federal Liberal Democrats, along with the Scottish Liberal Democrats and the English Liberal Democrats. They are led by Jane Dodds and hold 1 of the 60 seats in the National Assembly for Wales but none of the 40 Welsh seats in the UK House of Commons and none of the four Welsh seats in the European Parliament. Mark Williams, then-Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, was defeated at the 2017 general election in his Ceredigion constituency by Ben Lake of Plaid