Elections
There have been four elections to the Assembly, in 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2011. The next election will be in 2016, delayed from 2015 as the UK general election is due to be held in 2015.
| Parties | Constituency (First past the post) |
Regional (Additional member system) |
Total seats | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | +/− | Seats | +/− | Votes | % | +/− | Seats | +/− | Total | +/− | % | ||||
| Labour | 401,677 | 42.3 | +10.1 | 28 | +4 | 349,935 | 36.9 | +7.2 | 2 | ±0 | 30 | +4 | 50.0 | |||
| Conservative | 237,388 | 25.0 | +2.6 | 6 | +1 | 213,773 | 22.5 | +1.1 | 8 | +1 | 14 | +2 | 23.3 | |||
| Plaid Cymru | 182,907 | 19.3 | –3.1 | 5 | –2 | 169,799 | 17.9 | –3.1 | 6 | –2 | 11 | –4 | 18.3 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | 100,259 | 10.6 | –4.2 | 1 | –2 | 76,349 | 8.0 | −3.7 | 4 | +1 | 5 | –1 | 8.3 | |||
| UKIP | N/A | N/A | N/A | 0 | 0 | 43,756 | 4.6 | +0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Green | 1,514 | 0.2 | N/A | 0 | 0 | 32,649 | 3.4 | ±0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Socialist Labour | N/A | N/A | N/A | 0 | 0 | 23,020 | 2.4 | +1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| BNP | 7,056 | 0.7 | N/A | 0 | 0 | 22,610 | 2.4 | –1.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Welsh Christian | N/A | N/A | N/A | 0 | 0 | 8,947 | 0.9 | ±0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Communist | N/A | N/A | N/A | 0 | 0 | 2,676 | 0.3 | –0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| English Democrats | 744 | 0.1 | –0.1 | 0 | 0 | 1,904 | 0.2 | ±0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts | N/A | N/A | N/A | 0 | 0 | 1,639 | 0.2 | N/A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Monster Raving Loony | N/A | N/A | N/A | 0 | 0 | 1,237 | 0.1 | N/A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Independent | 12,478 | 1.3 | –1.7 | 0 | –1 | 1,094 | 0.1 | –0.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –1 | 0.0 | |||
| Llais Gwynedd | 3,225 | 0.3 | N/A | 0 | 0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Putting Llanelli First | 2,004 | 0.2 | N/A | 0 | 0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Total | 949,252 | 40 | 949,388 | 20 | 60 | |||||||||||
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