Election to the National Assembly for Wales 2011

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(Party list votes in%)

 %

40

30th

20th

10

0

36.9

22.5

17.9

8.0

4.6

3.4

2.4

2.4

1.8

WLP

WCP

plaid

WLD

UKIP

WGP

SL

BNP

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 2007

 % p

   8th

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

+7.3

+1.1

-3.1

-3.7

+0.6

-0.1

+1.1

-1.9

-1.5

WLP

WCP

plaid

WLD

UKIP

WGP

SL

BNP

Otherwise.

Distribution of seats

30th

11

5

14th

30th 11 5 14th 

A total of 60 seats

• WLP : 30
• Plaid : 11
• WLD : 5
• WCP : 14

The 2011 National Assembly election for Wales was the fourth election to the 1999 National Assembly in Cardiff and took place on May 5, 2011. Elections to the Parliament of Scotland and the Northern Ireland Assembly took place on the same day, and an electoral referendum was held across the UK . Sixty MPs were elected in Wales, 40 of them in constituencies by relative majority voting and 20 through party lists in five regions. First Minister Carwyn Jones and his Labor Party were able to strengthen their position and take half of the seats. Plaid Cymru under Ieuan Wyn Jones suffered a bitter defeat. By Leanne Wood has since been a trade unionist and socialist explained at the top of the party.

Top candidates

• Welsh Labor Party ( Labor Party ) - Carwyn Jones
• Plaid Cymru (Welsh National Party) - Ieuan Wyn Jones
• Welsh Conservative Party (Conservatives) - Nicholas Bourne
• Welsh Liberal Democrats (Liberal Democrats) - Kirsty Williams

Result

Relative majorities in the 40 constituencies (the color scheme corresponds to that of the table)

20 MPs were chosen via regional party lists in 5 electoral regions

The turnout was 42.2%.

Political party		Constituency votes	In %	Constituency mandates	List votes	In %	List mandates	Overall mandates
	Labor	401,677	42.3%	28	349.935	36.9%	2	30th
	Conservatives	237,388	25.0%	6th	213.773	22.5%	8th	14th
	Plaid Cymru	182.907	19.3%	5	169,799	17.9%	6th	11
	Liberal Democrats	100,259	10.6%	1	76,349	8.0%	4th	5
	UKIP	-	-	-	43,756	4.6%	0	0
	Greens	1,514	0.2%	0	32,649	3.4%	0	0
	Socialist Labor Party	-	-	-	23,020	2.4%	0	0
	BNP	7,056	0.7%	0	22,610	2.4%	0	0
	Other	5,973	0.7%	0	16,403	1.8%	0	0
	Independent	12,478	1.3%	0	1,094	0.1%	0	0
All in all		949.252	100.0%	40	949,388	100.0%	20th	60

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Election results on www.bbc.co.uk
2. ↑ Christian Bunke: Small ones catch up - Great Britain: Left parties benefit from the bad image of the established politicians , young world April 10, 2012
3. ^ Wales elections. BBC News, May 6, 2011, accessed September 13, 2014 .