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 independence Cardiff, Monmouthshire, Vale of Glamorgan and the two Welsh-speaking heartlands, Gwynedd and Ceredigion. A poll commissioned by YesCymru in May 2017 found of the major political parties in Wales that Labour voters and Plaid Cymru voters, as well as those aged 18-49, were most likely to vote for independence, while UKIP and Conservative voters were least likely. It also found that 2/3 of Plaid Cymru voters favoured independence, and that Welsh speakers were twice as likely to favour independence. Welsh independence Welsh independence () is a political ideal advocated by some political parties, advocacy groups, and people in Wales that