Election to the National Assembly for Wales 2007
The election for the National Assembly for Wales 2007 was the third election to the newly established National Assembly in Cardiff in 1999 and took place on May 3, 2007 . 60 MPs were elected, 40 of them in constituencies with relative majority voting and 20 through party lists in five regions. In the election, Labor was able to assert itself as the strongest party, but lost seats and a majority in parliament. Therefore, Morgan led from 2007 a coalition government with the left-regionalist party Plaid Cymru with its president Ieuan Wyn Jones first as the Deputy Minister ( Deputy First Minister ).
Two days after his 70th birthday in September 2009, Morgan announced that he would be stepping down from his government and party offices in December of that year. Three members of the state parliament applied for his successor in the party chairmanship: Huw Lewis, the Welsh Minister of Health and Social Affairs Edwina Hart and the Welsh counsel General Carwyn Jones . The latter won a party vote on December 1, 2009 and was subsequently elected as the new First Minister on December 9.
Top candidates
- Welsh Labor Party ( Labor Party ) - Rhodri Morgan
- Plaid Cymru (Welsh National Party) - Ieuan Wyn Jones
- Welsh Conservative Party (Conservatives) - Nicholas Bourne
- Welsh Liberal Democrats (Liberal Democrats) - Michael German
Result
The turnout was 43.7%.
| Political party | Constituency votes |
In % | Constituency mandates |
List votes |
In % | List mandates |
Overall mandates |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | 314,925 | 32.2% | 24 | 288,954 | 29.6% | 2 | 26th | |
| Plaid Cymru | 219.121 | 22.4% | 7th | 204.757 | 21.0% | 8th | 15th | |
| Conservatives | 218.730 | 22.4% | 5 | 209.153 | 21.4% | 7th | 12 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 144,450 | 14.8% | 3 | 114,500 | 11.7% | 3 | 6th | |
| BNP | - | - | - | 42.197 | 4.3% | 0 | 0 | |
| UKIP | 18,047 | 1.8% | 0 | 38,490 | 4.0% | 0 | 0 | |
| Greens | - | - | - | 33,803 | 3.5% | 0 | 0 | |
| Socialist Labor Party | - | - | - | 12,209 | 1.3% | 0 | 0 | |
| Other | 33,160 | 3.4% | 0 | 21,474 | 2.3% | 0 | 0 | |
| Independent | 29,699 | 3.0% | 1 | 9,350 | 1.0% | 0 | 1 | |
| All in all | 978.132 | 0 | 40 | 974.887 | 0.0% | 20th | 60 | |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Assembly national votes and seats by party, and links to constituency results - BBC, accessed November 30, 2012.
- ^ Morgan is stepping down as a leader. BBC News , October 1, 2009, accessed January 19, 2010.
- ↑ Two join race to succeed Morgan. BBC News, October 2, 2009; accessed January 19, 2010.
- ↑ Carwyn Jones clinches leadership in Wales. Wales online, December 1, 2009, accessed January 19, 2010.
- ^ Carwyn Jones reveals new cabinet. BBC News, December 10, 2009, accessed January 19, 2010.
- ^ Welsh assembly election 2007. BBC News, May 5, 2005, accessed September 13, 2014 .
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