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Why does west Wales keep voting Tory?
Those with a reason to protect their interests will go out and vote, while those at the bottom don’t bother to leave the house. And who can blame them, says TESS DELANEY
A photo of Tenby, which is in the constituency of Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire

DID you hear anyone during the election proudly declaring that they were voting Conservative? 

I didn’t. The Labour voters were swinging their colours from the mast and making themselves obvious from the moment the election was announced. 

Here in west Wales, where the Conservatives had only had very narrow majorities in the previous election, it looked like Labour might actually do it. 

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