Alun Michael, MP for Cardiff South and Penarth, says lowering the voting age by four years would increase voter turnout and encourage young people to engage with politics.
Eighteen is the most common age to be able to vote in countries across the world, but campaigners have been calling for it to be lowered to 16 in the UK.
Writing in his local newspaper the Penarth Times, Michael, who spent 16 years as a youth and community worker, said he felt a voting age of 14 would not be unreasonable.
"Fourteen is an age which I find young people far better informed and sensibly engaged than was the case in the past,” he wrote.
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