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Ben Lake

Plaid Cymru Ceredigion Preseli

MP since 8 Jun 2017

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Ben Lake is the Plaid Cymru MP for Ceredigion Preseli, and has been an MP continually since 8 June 2017.

1598

Votes Cast

£250,650

Expenses 2024-25

14,789

Majority

47.0%

Vote Share

Expenses (2024-25)

£250,650

Staffing£223,557

Office£18,809

Travel£8,284

Year-on-Year

2024-25£250,650

2023-24£230,089

2022-23£199,487

2021-22£185,599

2020-21£166,495

2019-20£163,808

2018-19£147,469

2017-18£95,514

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Election Result(2024 General Election)

Turnout: 46,302 voters

✓Plaid Cymru

21,738 votes47.0%

Liberal Democrat

6,949 votes15.0%

Labour

5,386 votes11.6%

Reform UK

5,374 votes11.6%

Conservative

4,763 votes10.3%

Green Party

1,864 votes4.0%

Workers Party of Britain

228 votes0.5%

Parliamentary Activity

Counts in the current Parliament
(since 4 July 2024)

341

Written Questions

Oral Questions

Debates Spoken In⚑

111

Speeches⚑

352

Divisions Voted

⚑Debates and speeches are sourced from Hansard contributions. The Hansard backfill is still in progress — counts will grow over the next few days as historic days are ingested.

Voting Record

How would you have voted?

Tap AYE or NO on the votes below to see how you compare with Ben.

Aye: 894No: 704

1598 votes — page 43 of 64

6 NO

Trade Bill

6 votes · 19 Jan 2021

NOmotion to disagree to Lords Amendment 5

You

NOmotion to disagree to Lords Amendment 4

You

NOmotion to disagree to Lords Amendment 3

You

NOmotion to disagree to Lords Amendment 2

You

NOGovernment amendment (a) to Lords Amendment 10

You

NOmotion to disagree to Lords Amendment 1

You

2 AYE

Opposition Day

2 votes · 18 Jan 2021

AYEAccess to remote education and the quality of free school meals

You

AYEUniversal Credit and Working Tax Credit

You

3 AYE

Financial Services Bill Report Stage

3 votes · 13 Jan 2021

AYEAmendment 1

You

AYENew Clause 21

You

AYENew Clause 7

You

2 NO

European Union (Future Relationship) Bill

2 votes · 30 Dec 2020

NOThird Reading

You

NOSecond Reading

You

AYE

Taxation (Post-transition Period) Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 3

15 Dec 2020

You

UK Internal Market Bill: motion to disagree to Lords Amendments 1F, 1G, 1H, 1K, 1L and 8M

15 Dec 2020

You

3 NO

UK Internal Market Bill

3 votes · 10 Dec 2020

NOmotion to disagree to Lords Amendments 48B and 48C

You

NOmotion to agree Lords Amendments 8B, 8C, 8D, 8F, 8G, 8H, 8J and 8K, disagree to 8L, insist on disagreement to 13 and 56, and make Amendment (a) in lieu of 8L, 13 and 56

You

NOmotion to disagree to Lords Amendments 1B, 1C and 1D

You

Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Act 2020 (Consequential, Saving, Transitional and Transitory Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

9 Dec 2020

You

AYE

Taxation (Post-transition Period) Bill: Committee of the whole House: Amendment 1

9 Dec 2020

You

Financial Assistance to Industry

8 Dec 2020

You

AYE

Northern Ireland (Ways and Means): Keir Starmer's Amendment

8 Dec 2020