Llanelli (UK Parliament constituency)

Llanelli
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Llanelli in Wales.
Preserved county	Dyfed
Electorate	59,266 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Llanelli, Burry Port, Llangennech
Current constituency
Created	1918
Member of parliament	Nia Griffith (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	East Carmarthenshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Overlaps
Welsh Assembly	Mid and West Wales
European Parliament constituency	Wales

Llanelli is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1918 to 1970 the official spelling of the constituency name was Llanelly. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

The Llanelli Welsh Assembly constituency was created with the same boundaries in 1999.

1918 The constituency was established in 1918, as a division of Carmarthenshire, located in the south east of the county. This area had, until 1918, been the southern part of the constituency of East Carmarthenshire.

It consisted of the then local authority areas of the Municipal Borough of Llanelly; the Urban Districts of Ammanford, Burry Port and Cwmamman; the Rural Districts of Lanelly and part of Llandilofawr (namely the civil parishes of Betws, Llandybie and Quarter Bach, and Ward I of the civil parish of Llandilo Rural)

The division bordered Carmarthen to the west and north, Brecon and Radnor to the north east, Neath to the east, Gower to the south east and the sea to the south.