Election to the National Assembly for Wales 2016
On May 5, 2016 was election to the National Assembly for Wales ( National Assembly for Wales instead). It was the sixth election of a Welsh regional parliament since - after a Welsh referendum in 1997 - the Government of Wales Act 1998 created a Welsh National Assembly . On the same day the general election in Scotland and the election of the Northern Ireland Assembly as well as local elections in England (including the election of the Mayor of London ) took place.
The Labor Party lost votes, but remained the strongest party. UKIP was able to gain significant votes, while the Conservatives lost votes. The Welsh regional party Plaid Cymru gained more votes, overtook the Conservatives and became the second largest party.
As a result of the election, there was a coalition government between the Labor Party and the Liberal Democrats (“ Lab-Lib Pact ”).
prehistory
The last election to the Welsh Parliament took place in 2011 and was won by the Labor Party , traditionally strong in Wales . The second strongest party were the Conservatives and the Welsh regional party Plaid Cymru followed in third place . As First Minister (Wales) ( First Minister of Wales ) was Carwyn Jones , who had held the office since 2009, confirmed. In the election, Labor won 30 out of 60 seats, narrowly missing an absolute majority. The Labor government under Jones was thus dependent on outside parliamentary support for legislative proposals. Throughout the legislature, the Welsh government under Jones stood in contrast to the British government in London under Prime Minister Cameron . Above all, the Jones administration opposed the austerity policy pursued from London and accused London of hitting the economically largely structurally weak Wales particularly hard with unsocial austerity measures. The London government in turn accused the government of Wales of economic policy incompetence.
- Welsh politicians
Election date
The Welsh National Assembly's legislative term was originally 4 years. With the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act of 2011, the election date for the British House of Commons was set on the first Thursday in May every five years. In order to avoid a time collision with this election date, the election date for the Welsh National Assembly has been postponed by one year from 2015. The Wales Act 2014 set the legislative period to 5 years for the future. There were also discussions about the timing of the referendum on the continued membership of the United Kingdom in the European Union , which Prime Minister Cameron had set for 23 June 2016. The politicians in Wales would have preferred a longer time interval between the two election events.
Electoral system
The mixed-member proportional system was used as the electoral system , a mixed process that includes elements of majority voting as well as proportional representation . For this purpose, Wales was divided into 40 constituencies, of which between seven and nine were combined into a total of five electoral regions and the boundaries of which were based on the constituencies for the European elections .
The voters had two votes. With they could opt for a candidate in their constituency, enough to win after the first-past-the-post system , the relative majority . The other vote was for the electoral region, with party lists to choose from. For conversion into seats mandate was D'Hondt method was used, more different in the various lists divisors gave, namely the number of won in the constituencies each constituency seats plus one. As a result, with the same number of votes, parties that had won fewer constituencies were compensated for their mandates.
Result
| Election to the National Assembly for Wales 2016 | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Political party | Personalized proportional representation | Overall mandates |
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| Direct constituency mandates | Region (list mandates) | |||||||||||||||
| Constituency votes |
In % | +/- | Constituency mandates |
+/- | List votes |
In % | +/- | List mandates |
+/- | Overall mandates |
+/- | In % | ||||
| Labor | 353,866 | 34.7% | 7.6% | 27 | 1 | 319.196 | 31.5% | 5.4% | 2 | 0 | 29 | 1 | 48.3% | |||
| Plaid Cymru | 209.376 | 20.5% | 1.3% | 6th | 1 | 211,548 | 20.8% | 3.0% | 6th | 0 | 12 | 1 | 20.0% | |||
| Conservatives | 215,597 | 21.1% | 3.9% | 6th | 0 | 190.846 | 18.8% | 3.7% | 5 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 18.3% | |||
| UKIP | 127.038 | 12.5% | 12.5% | 0 | 0 | 132,138 | 13.0% | 8.5% | 7th | 7 | 7th | 7 | 11.7% | |||
| Liberal Democrats | 78.165 | 7.7% | 2.9% | 1 | 0 | 65.504 | 6.5% | 1.6% | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1.7% | |||
| Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party | - | - | - | - | - | 44,286 | 4.4% | 4.4% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | |||
| Greens | 25.202 | 2.5% | 2.3% | 0 | 0 | 30.211 | 3.0% | 0.5% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | |||
| Other | 3,107 | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0 | 0 | 19,437 | 1.9% | 2.3% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | |||
| Independent | 7,032 | 0.7% | 0.6% | 0 | 0 | 1,577 | 0.1% | ± 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | |||
| total | 1,019,383 | 100.0% | 40 | 1,014,743 | 100.0% | 20th | 60 | 100.0% | ||||||||
| Number of eligible voters | voter turnout | |
|---|---|---|
| In % | +/- | |
| 2,248,050 | 45.3% | 3.1% |
Summary of the election results
| Direct constituency mandates | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | 34.7% | |||
| Conservative | 21.1% | |||
| Plaid Cymru | 20.5% | |||
| UKIP | 12.5% | |||
| Lib. Dem. | 7.7% | |||
| Greens | 2.5% | |||
| Otherwise. | 1.0% | |||
| Region (list mandates) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | 31.5% | |||
| Plaid Cymru | 20.8% | |||
| Conservative | 18.8% | |||
| UKIP | 13.0% | |||
| Lib. Dem. | 6.5% | |||
| Abolish | 4.4% | |||
| Greens | 3.0% | |||
| Otherwise. | 2.0% | |||
| Parliament seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | 48.3% | |||
| Plaid Cymru | 20.0% | |||
| Conservative | 18.3% | |||
| UKIP | 11.7% | |||
| Lib. Dem. | 1.7% | |||
Summary according to direct mandates (constituency) and list mandates (region)
Mid and West Wales
| Election to the National Assembly for Wales 2016: Mid and West Wales | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Constituency | Elected MPs | Political party | |
| Brecon and Radnorshire | Kirsty Williams | Liberal Democrats held | |
| Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | Adam Price | Plaid Cymru held | |
| Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire | Angela Burns | Conservative held | |
| Ceredigion | Elin Jones | Plaid Cymru held | |
| Dwyfor Meirionnydd | Dafydd Elis-Thomas | Plaid Cymru held | |
| Llanelli | Lee Waters | Labor held | |
| Montgomeryshire | Russell George | Conservative held | |
| Preseli Pembrokeshire | Paul Davies | Conservative held | |
| Election to the National Assembly for Wales 2016: Mid and West Wales | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Political party | Elected candidates | Seats | ± | be right | % | ± | ||
| Plaid Cymru | Simon Thomas | 1 | ± 0 | 56,754 | 26.3% | −0.5% | ||
| Conservative | 0 | ± 0 | 44,461 | 20.6% | −4.6% | |||
| Labor | Joyce Watson Eluned Morgan |
2 | ± 0 | 41,975 | 19.4% | −3.1% | ||
| UKIP | Neil Hamilton | 1 | +1 | 25,042 | 11.6% | + 7.2% | ||
| Liberal Democrats | 0 | −1 | 23,554 | 10.9% | −1.9% | |||
North Wales
| National Assembly Election for Wales 2016: North Wales | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Constituency | Elected MPs | Political party | |
| Aberconwy | Janet Finch-Saunders | Conservative held | |
| Alyn and Deeside | Carl Sargeant | Labor held | |
| Arfon | Siân Gwenllian | Plaid Cymru held | |
| Clwyd South | Ken skates | Labor held | |
| Clwyd West | Darren Millar | Conservative held | |
| Delyn | Hannah Blythyn | Labor held | |
| Vale of Clwyd | Ann Jones | Labor held | |
| Wrexham | Lesley Griffiths | Labor held | |
| Ynys Môn | Rhun ap Iorwerth | Plaid Cymru held | |
| National Assembly Election for Wales 2016: North Wales | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Political party | Elected candidates | Seats | ± | be right | % | ± | ||
| Labor | 0 | ± 0 | 57,528 | 28.1% | −4.0% | |||
| Plaid Cymru | Llyr Huws Gruffydd | 1 | ± 0 | 47,701 | 23.3% | +1.9% | ||
| Conservative | Mark Isherwood | 1 | −1 | 45,468 | 22.2% | −4.6% | ||
| UKIP |
Nathan Gill Michelle Brown |
2 | +2 | 25,518 | 12.5% | + 7.5% | ||
| Liberal Democrats | 0 | −1 | 9,315 | 4.6% | −1.3% | |||
South Wales Central
| National Assembly Election for Wales 2016: South Wales Central | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Constituency | Elected MPs | Political party | |
| Cardiff Central | Jenny Rathbone | Labor held | |
| Cardiff North | Julie Morgan | Labor held | |
| Cardiff South and Penarth | Vaughan Gething | Labor held | |
| Cardiff West | Mark Drakeford | Labor held | |
| Cynon Valley | Vikki Howells | Labor held | |
| Pontypridd | Mick Antoniw | Labor held | |
| Rhondda | Leanne Wood | Plaid Cymru won by Labor | |
| Vale of Glamorgan | Jane Hutt | Labor held | |
| National Assembly Election for Wales 2016: South Wales Central | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Political party | Elected candidates | Seats | ± | be right | % | ± | ||
| Labor | 0 | ± 0 | 78,366 | 33.9% | −7.1% | |||
| Plaid Cymru | Neil McEvoy | 1 | ± 0 | 48,357 | 20.9% | +1.9% | ||
| Conservative | Andrew RT Davies David Melding |
2 | ± 0 | 42,185 | 18.3% | −3.7% | ||
| UKIP | Gareth Bennett | 1 | +1 | 23,958 | 10.4% | + 6.4% | ||
| Liberal Democrats | 0 | −1 | 14,875 | 6.4% | −1.5% | |||
South Wales East
| National Assembly Election for Wales 2016: South Wales East | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Constituency | Elected MPs | Political party | |
| Blaenau Gwent | Alun Davies | Labor held | |
| Caerphilly | Hefin David | Labor held | |
| Islwyn | Rhianon Passmore | Labor held | |
| Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | Dawn Bowden | Labor held | |
| Monmouth | Nick Ramsay | Conservative held | |
| Newport East | John Griffiths | Labor held | |
| Newport West | Jayne Bryant | Labor held | |
| Torfaen | Lynne Neagle | Labor held | |
| National Assembly Election for Wales 2016: South Wales East | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Political party | Elected candidates | Seats | ± | be right | % | ± | ||
| Labor | 0 | ± 0 | 74,424 | 38.3% | −7.3% | |||
| UKIP | Mark Reckless David Rowlands |
2 | +2 | 34,524 | 17.8% | + 12.5% | ||
| Conservative | Mohammad Asghar | 1 | −1 | 33,318 | 17.2% | −2.4% | ||
| Plaid Cymru | Steffan Lewis | 1 | −1 | 29,686 | 15.3% | + 3.2% | ||
South Wales West
| National Assembly Election for Wales 2016: South Wales West | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Constituency | Elected MPs | Political party | |
| But of that | David Rees | Labor held | |
| Bridgend | Carwyn Jones | Labor held | |
| Gower | Rebecca Evans | Labor held | |
| Neath | Jeremy Miles | Labor held | |
| Ogmore | Huw Irranca-Davies | Labor held | |
| Swansea East | Michael John Hedges | Labor held | |
| Swansea West | Julie James | Labor held | |
| National Assembly Election for Wales 2016: South Wales West | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Political party | Elected candidates | Seats | ± | be right | % | ± | ||
| Labor | 0 | ± 0 | 66.903 | 39.5% | −6.9% | |||
| Plaid Cymru | Bethan Jenkins David Lloyd |
2 | +1 | 29,050 | 17.2% | + 3.4% | ||
| Conservative | Suzy Davies | 1 | −1 | 25,414 | 15.0% | −2.8% | ||
| UKIP | Caroline Jones | 1 | +1 | 23.096 | 13.7% | + 9.4% | ||
| Liberal Democrats | 0 | −1 | 10,946 | 6.5% | −0.5% | |||
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Results. BBC News, May 6, 2016, accessed May 6, 2016 .
- ↑ Wales 'standing up' to austerity policies says Carwyn Jones. BBC News, June 14, 2013, accessed February 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Carwyn Jones: Let's tackle David Cameron's message of 'pain, pain and more pain' by offering voters hope. Wales online, February 9, 2015, accessed February 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Wales Act 2014. legislation.gov.uk, 2014, accessed February 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Ashley Cowburn: EU referendum: David Cameron dismisses ruling June out for vote. The Independent, February 3, 2016, accessed February 2, 2016 .
- ^ How the Assembly is Elected. National Assembly website, accessed December 2, 2018. (English)
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