Elections in Wales
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Wales has elections to three tiers of government: 22 unitary local authorities, the National Assembly for Wales, and the United Kingdom Parliament.
Local government
There are elections to 22 unitary authorities across Wales every four years, most recently on 4 May 2017. The electoral system currently used is First Past The Post. Key unitary authorities are Cardiff, Newport and Swansea councils, which all lie in the southern coastal belt.
- Local election results 2017
- Local election results 2012
- Local election results 2008
- Local election results 2004
- Local election results 1999
- Local election results 1995
- Local election results 1993
National Assembly for Wales
The National Assembly for Wales has existed since 1999, after Welsh voters narrowly approved it in the 1997 devolution referendum. It is based in Cardiff Bay, and there are elections every five years for 60 Assembly Members (AMs). Voters have two votes: 40 AMs are elected by the First Past The Post system in individual constituencies, and a further 20 AMs are elected by the Regional Top-Up system in which voters vote by region. The regions are South Wales East, South Wales Central, South Wales West, Mid and West Wales and North Wales. Each region elects four AMs, to achieve approximately proportional representation overall.
Latest election
2016
2007
1999
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2011
2003
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Past elections and referendums
UK Parliament
Wales has been eligible to send MPs to Westminster since the Laws in Wales Act 1535. Between then and 1885, most constituencies were categorised as county or borough constituencies; each sent one MP to Westminster. As the Industrial Revolution took hold there were many calls for reform (particularly in towns such as Merthyr Tydfil). Parliament eventually allowed the new towns to vote, and this introduced the first Labour MPs. The first leader of the Labour Party in Parliament, Keir Hardie, was one of the two MPs for Merthyr Tydfil. The following table shows the composition of Wales' Westminster MPs since 1885.
| Year | Conservative | Labour | Liberal Democrat/ Liberal |
Plaid Cymru | Independent | Liberal Unionist | Independent Labour | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | 4 | - | 29 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| 1886 | 6 | - | 26 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| 1892 | 3 | - | 30 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| 1895 | 8 | - | 24 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| 1900 | 6 | 1 | 26 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| 1906 | - | 1 | 28 | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Jan 1910 | 2 | 5 | 27 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dec 1910 | 3 | 6 | 26 | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| 1918 | 4 | 10 | 19 | - | - | - | - | 20 |
| 1922 | 6 | 18 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | 9 |
| 1923 | 4 | 19 | 11 | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| 1924 | 9 | 16 | 11 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1929 | 1 | 25 | 10 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1931 | 6 | 15 | 5 | - | - | - | 1 | 9 |
| 1935 | 6 | 18 | 8 | - | - | - | - | 4 |
| 1945 | 3 | 25 | 7 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| 1950 | 3 | 27 | 5 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| 1951 | 5 | 27 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| 1955 | 5 | 27 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| 1959 | 6 | 27 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| 1964 | 6 | 28 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1966 | 3 | 32 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1970 | 7 | 27 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Feb 1974 | 8 | 24 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - |
| Oct 1974 | 8 | 23 | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | - |
| 1979 | 11 | 22 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - |
| 1983 | 14 | 20 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - |
| 1987 | 8 | 24 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - |
| 1992 | 6 | 27 | 1 | 4 | - | - | - | - |
| 1997 | - | 34 | 2 | 4 | - | - | - | - |
| 2001 | - | 34 | 2 | 4 | - | - | - | - |
| 2005 | 3 | 29 | 4 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - |
| 2010 | 8 | 26 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - |
| 2015 | 11 | 25 | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | - |
| 2017 | 8 | 28 | - | 4 | - | - | - | - |
| 2019 | 14 | 22 | - | 4 | - | - | - | - |
Detailed Breakdowns
| Parts of this article (those related to There have been 3 general elections since 2010.) need to be updated. (January 2020) |
2010
| Party | Candidates | Seats | Seats change |
Votes | % | % change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 40 | 26 |  4
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531,601 | 36.2 | 6.5
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| Conservative | 40 | 8 |  5
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382,730 | 26.1 | 4.7
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| Liberal Democrats | 40 | 3 | 1
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295,164 | 20.1 | 1.7
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| Plaid Cymru | 40 | 3 | 1
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165,394 | 11.3 | 1.3
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| UKIP | 40 | 0 | 0 | 35,690 | 2.4 | 1.0
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| BNP | 19 | 0 | 0 | 23,088 | 1.6 | 1.5
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| Independent | 0 | 0 | 15,339 | 1.0 | |||
| Blaenau Gwent PV | 1 | 0 | 1
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6,458 | 0.4 | ||
| Green | 10 | 0 | 0 | 6,293 | 0.4 | 0.1
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| Christian | 0 | 0 | 1,947 | 0.1 | |||
| Socialist Labour | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1,155 | 0.0 | ||
| New Millennium Bean Party | 1 | 0 | 0 | 558 | 0.0 | ||
| National Front | 1 | 0 | 0 | 384 | 0.0 | ||
| Monster Raving Loony | 2 | 0 | 0 | 352 | 0.0 | ||
| TUSC | 2 | 0 | 0 | 341 | 0.0 | ||
| Communist | 1 | 0 | 0 | 196 | 0.0 | ||
| Alliance for Green Socialism | 1 | 0 | 0 | 127 | 0.0 | ||
| Turnout: | 1,446,690 | 64.9 | |||||
2005
| Party | Candidates | Seats | Seats change |
Votes | % | % change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 29 | 5
|
594,821 | 42.7 | 5.9
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| Conservative | 3 | 3
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297,830 | 21.4 | 0.4
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| Liberal Democrats | 4 | 2
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256,249 | 18.4 | 4.6
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| Plaid Cymru | 3 | 1
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174,838 | 12.6 | 1.7
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| UKIP | 0 | 
|
20,297 | 1.5 | |||
| Green | 0 |
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7,144 | 0.5 | |||
| Forward Wales | 0 |
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3,461 | 0.2 | |||
| Legalise Cannabis | 0 |
|
1,772 | 0.1 | |||
| BNP | 0 |
|
1,689 | 0.1 | |||
| Socialist Labour | 0 |
|
1,605 | 0.1 | |||
| Veritas | 0 |
|
1,437 | 0.1 | |||
| Respect | 0 |
|
643 | 0.0 | |||
| Liberal | 0 |
|
605 | 0.0 | |||
| Socialist Alliance | 0 |
|
557 | 0.0 | |||
| Communist | 0 |
|
440 | 0.0 | |||
| Yourself | 0 |
|
284 | 0.0 | |||
| Bean Party | 0 |
|
159 | 0.0 | |||
| Independent | 1 | 1
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28,888 | 2.3 | |||
| Turnout: | 1,392,719 | 62.4 | |||||
2001
| Party | Candidates | Seats | Seats change |
Votes | % | % change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 40 | 34 |
|
666,956 | 48.6 | 6.1
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| Conservative | 40 | 0 |
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288,623 | 21.0 | 1.4
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| Plaid Cymru | 40 | 4 |
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195,893 | 14.3 | 4.4
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| Liberal Democrats | 2 |
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189,254 | 13.8 | 1.5
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| UKIP | 0 |
|
12,552 | 0.9 | |||
| Green | 0 |
|
3,753 | 0.3 | |||
| Socialist Labour | 0 |
|
2,805 | 0.2 | |||
| Socialist Alliance | 0 |
|
2,258 | 0.2 | |||
| ProLife Alliance | 0 |
|
1,609 | 0.1 | |||
| Communist | 0 |
|
384 | 0.0 | |||
| BNP | 0 |
|
278 | 0.0 | |||
| Others |
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7,959 | 0.6 | ||||
| Turnout: | 1,372,324 | 61.6 | |||||
European Parliament
Wales is a constituency in European Parliament elections.
2019
| List | Candidates | Votes | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brexit Party | Nathan Gill,
Gethin James, Julie Price, |
271,404[1] | 32.5 |
| Plaid Cymru | Jill Evans,
Carmen Smith, Patrick McGuinness, Ioan Bellin, |
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| Conservative Party | Dan Boucher,
Craig Lawton, Fay Jones, Tomos Davies, |
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| Labour Party | Jackie Jones,
Matthew Dorrance, Mary Wimbury, Mark Whitcutt, |
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| Liberal Democrats | Sam Bennett,
Donna Lalek, Alistair Cameron, Andrew Parkhurst, |
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| UKIP | Kris Hicks,
Keith Edwards, Tom Harrison, Robert McNeil-Wilson, |
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| Change UK | Jon Owen Jones,
June Davies, Matthew Paul, Sally Stephenson,[2] |
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| Green | Anthony Slaughter,
Ian Chandler, Ceri Davies, Duncan Rees, |
2014
| European Election 2014: Wales | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| List | Candidates | Votes | Of total (%) | ± from prev. | |
| Labour | Derek Vaughan Jayne Bryant, Alex Thomas, Christina Rees[4][5] |
206,332 | 28.15 | +7.9 | |
| UKIP | Nathan Gill James Cole, Caroline Jones, David Rowlands[5][6] |
201,983 | 27.55 | +14.8 | |
| Conservative | Kay Swinburne Aled Davies, Dan Boucher, Richard Hopkin[5][7] |
127,742 | 17.43 | −3.8 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Jill Evans Marc Jones, Stephen Cornelius, Ioan Bellin[5][8][9] |
111,864 | 15.26 | −3.3 | |
| Green | Pippa Bartolotti, John Matthews, Chris Were, Rosemary Cutler[5][10][11] | 33,275 | 4.54 | −1.0 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Alec Dauncey, Robert Speht, Jackie Radford, Bruce Roberts[5] | 28,930 | 3.95 | −6.7 | |
| BNP | Mike Whitby, Laurence Reid, Jean Griffin, Gary Tumulty[5] | 7,655 | 1.04 | −4.4 | |
| Britain First | Paul Golding, Anthony Golding, Christine Smith, Anne Elstone[5] | 6,633 | 0.9 | 0.00 | |
| Socialist Labour | Andrew Jordan, Katherine Jones, David Lloyd Jones, Liz Screen[5] | 4,459 | 0.61 | −1.2 | |
| NO2EU | Robert Griffiths, Claire Job, Steve Skelly, Laura Picand[5] | 2,803 | 0.38 | −0.9 | |
| Socialist (GB) | Brian Johnson, Richard Cheney, Ed Blewitt, Howard Moss[5][12] | 1,384 | 0.19 | 0.00 | |
| Turnout | 733,060 | 31.5 | +1.1 | ||
2009
| European Election 2009: Wales[13][14] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| List | Candidates | Votes | Of total (%) | ± from prev. | |
| Conservative | Kay Swinburne Evan Price, Emma Greenow, David Chipp |
145,193 | 21.2 | +1.8 | |
| Labour | Derek Vaughan Lisa Stevens, Rachel Maycock, Leighton Veale |
138,852 | 20.3 | −12.2 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Jill Evans Eurig Wyn, Ioan Bellin, Natasha Asghar |
126,702 | 18.5 | +1.1 | |
| UKIP | John Bufton David Bevan, Kevin Mahoney, David Rowlands |
87,585 | 12.8 | +2.3 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Alan Butt Phillip, Kevin O'Connor, Nick Tregoning, Jackie Radford | 73,082 | 10.7 | +0.2 | |
| Green | Jake Griffiths, Kay Roney, Ann Were, John Matthews | 38,160 | 5.6 | +2.0 | |
| BNP | Ennys Hughes, Laurence Read, Clive Bennett, Kevin Edwards | 37,114 | 5.4 | +2.5 | |
| Christian | Jeffrey Green, David Griffiths, Alun Owen, John Harrold | 13,037 | 1.9 | N/A | |
| Socialist Labour | Robert English, Richard Booth, Liz Screen, Judith Sambrook | 12,402 | 1.8 | N/A | |
| NO2EU | Robert Griffiths, Rob Williams, Laura Picand, Trevor Jones | 8,600 | 1.3 | N/A | |
| Jury Team (UK) | Paul Sabanskis, James Eustace, Neil Morgan, Steven Partridge | 3,793 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 684,520 | 30.4 | −11.0 | ||
2004
| European Election 2004: Wales[15] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| List | Candidates | Votes | Of total (%) | ± from prev. | |
| Labour | Glenys Kinnock, Eluned Morgan Gareth Williams, Gwennan Jeremiah |
297,810 (148,905) |
32.5 | +0.6 | |
| Conservative | Jonathan Evans Owen Williams, Felicity Elphick, Albert Fox |
177,771 | 19.4 | −3.3 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Jill Evans Jon Blackwood, Eilian Williams, Gwenllian Lansdown |
159,888 | 17.4 | −12.2 | |
| UKIP | David Rowlands, Clive Easton, Elizabeth Phillips, Timothy Jenkins | 96,677 | 10.5 | +7.4 | |
| Liberal Democrats | David John Williams, Alison Goldsworthy, Nicholas Tregoning, Nilmini Priyanga de Silva | 96,116 | 10.5 | +2.3 | |
| Green | Martyn Shrewsbury, Molly Scott Cato, David Bradney, Dorienne Robinson | 32,761 | 3.6 | +1.0 | |
| BNP | John Walker, Pauline Gregory, James Roberts, Mark Stringfellow[16] | 27,135 | 3.0 | N/A | |
| Forward Wales | Ron Davies, Wendy Paintsil, Janet Williams, Graham Jones | 17,280 | 1.9 | N/A | |
| Christian Democratic Party | Catherine Smith, Christine West, Joseph Biddulph, Robert Evans | 6,821 | 0.7 | N/A | |
| Respect | Helen Griffin, Huw Williams, Raja Gul Raiz, Taran O'Sullivan | 5,427 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 917,686 | 41.4 | +12.4 | ||
1999
| European Election 1999: Wales[17] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| List | Candidates | Votes | Of total (%) | ± from prev. | |
| Labour | Glenys Kinnock, Eluned Morgan Joe Wilson, Gareth Williams, Jane Hutt |
199,690 (99,845) |
31.9 | N/A | |
| Plaid Cymru | Jill Evans, Eurig Wyn Marc Phillips, Susanna Perkins, Owain Llywelyn |
185,235 (92,617.5) |
29.6 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Jonathan Evans Chris Butler, Owen John Williams, Robert Buckland, Edmund Hayward |
142,631 | 22.8 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrats | Roger Roberts, Peter Price, Alistair Cameron, Juliana Hughes, John Dixon | 51,283 | 8.2 | N/A | |
| UKIP | Dai Rees, Niall Warry, Idris Richard Francis, Alan Barham, David Lloyd | 19,702 | 3.1 | N/A | |
| Green | Molly Scott Cato, Klaus Armstrong-Braun, Sue Walker, Rachel Kalela, John Matthews | 16,146 | 2.6 | N/A | |
| Pro-Euro Conservative | William Powell, Jennifer Harris, Antonio Fernandes-Vidal, Alan Morris, Christopher Hodgkinson | 5,834 | 0.9 | N/A | |
| Socialist Labour | Elizabeth Screen, Darren Hickery, Stephen Bell, Miriam Bowen, George Tafarides | 4,283 | 0.7 | N/A | |
| Natural Law | David Hughes, Brian Francis, Helen Evans, Andrea Jarman, John Ashforth | 1,621 | 0.3 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 626,425 | 29.0 | N/A | ||
1994
| Party | Seats | Seats change |
Votes | % | % change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 5 | 1
|
530,749 | 55.86 | 6.93
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| Plaid Cymru | 0 |
|
162,478 | 17.10 | 4.21
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| Conservative | 0 |
|
138,349 | 14.56 | 8.89
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| SLD | 0 |
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82,480 | 8.68 | 5.46
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| Green | 0 |
|
19,413 | 2.04 | 9.11
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| Natural Law | 0 | – | 6,081 | 0.64 | – | |
| UKIP | 0 | – | 5,536 | 0.58 | – | |
| Independent | 0 | – | 2,729 | 0.29 | – | |
| Socialist Alliance | 0 | – | 1,270 | 1.33 | – | |
| Communist | 0 | – | 1,073 | 0.11 | – | |
| Turnout: | 950,158 | |||||
1989
| Party | Seats | Seats change |
Votes | % | % change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 4 | 1
|
436,730 | 48.93 | 4.1
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| Conservative | 0 | 1
|
209,313 | 23.45 | 1.91
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| Plaid Cymru | 0 |
|
115,062 | 12.89 | 0.69
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| Green | 0 |
|
99,546 | 11.15 | 10.64
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| SLD | 0 |
|
28,785 | 3.22 | 14.18
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| SDP | 0 | – | 3,153 | 0.35 | – | |
| Turnout: | 892,589 | |||||
1984
| Party | Seats | Seats change |
Votes | % | % change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 3 |
|
375,982 | 44.53 | 2.83
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| Conservative | 1 |
|
214,086 | 25.36 | 10.98
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| Alliance | 0 |
|
146,947 | 17.40 | 7.79
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| Plaid Cymru | 0 |
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103,031 | 12.20 | 0.41
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| Ecology | 0 | – | 4,266 | 0.51 | – | |
| Turnout: | 844,312 | |||||
1979
| Party | Seats | Seats change |
Votes | % | % change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 3 | – | 294,978 | 41.70 | – | |
| Conservative | 1 | – | 257,029 | 36.34 | – | |
| Plaid Cymru | 0 | – | 83,399 | 11.79 | – | |
| Liberal | 0 | – | 67,962 | 9.61 | – | |
| Independent | 0 | – | 4,008 | 0.57 | – | |
| Turnout: | 707,376 | |||||
See also
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