2012 Cardiff South and Penarth by-election
By-election result

2012 Cardiff South and Penarth by-election

Section Title: By-election result
Table Section Text: None

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±

Labour Co-op	Stephen Doughty	9,193	47.3	+8.4

Conservative	Craig Williams	3,859	19.9	8.4

Liberal Democrat	Bablin Molik	2,103	10.8	−11.5

Plaid Cymru	Luke Nicholas	1,854	9.5	+5.3

UKIP	Simon Zeigler	1,179	6.1	+3.5

Green	Anthony Slaughter	800	4.1	+2.9

Socialist Labour	Andrew Jordan	235	1.2	N/A

Communist	Robert Griffiths	213	1.1	+0.7

Majority	5,334	27.4	+16.8

Turnout	19,436	25.7	34.8

Registered electors	76,764

Labour Co-op hold	Swing	+8.4

Sentence(s)

Stephen Doughty of the Labour Party, won the election with 47.3% of the vote.

final_sentence: Stephen Doughty of the Labour Party, won the election with 47.3% of the vote.