National Assembly for Wales election, 1999

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The first National Assembly for Wales elections were held on 6 May 1999. The overall turnout of voters was 46.3%.^[1] The breakdown of voting was as follows:

Contents 1 Constituency (first-past-the-post) results 2 Regional-list (additional-member) results 3 Party totals 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Constituency (first-past-the-post) results

Party		Votes	Seats	% share of vote
	Labour	384,671	27	37.6
	Plaid Cymru	290,572	9	28.4
	Conservative	162,133	1	15.8
	Liberal Democrat	137,857	3	13.5
	Independent	29,219	0	2.9
	Independent Labour	4,134	0	0.4
	United Socialist	3,967	0	0.4
	Tourism and Farmers	2,726	0	0.3
	People's Representative	2,529	0	0.2
	Democratic Alliance	1,908	0	0.2
	Green	1,002	0	0.1
	New Millennium Bean	849	0	0.1
	Local Socialist	839	0	0.1
	Communist	609	0	0.1
	Celtic Alliance	210	0	<0.1
	Total	1,023,225	40

[edit] Regional-list (additional-member) results

Party		Votes	Seats	% share of vote
	Labour	361,657	1	35.4
	Plaid Cymru	312,048	8	30.5
	Conservative	168,206	8	16.5
	Liberal Democrat	128,008	3	12.5
	Green	25,858	0	2.5
	Socialist Labour	10,720	0	1.0
	Natural Law	3,861	0	0.4
	United Socialist	3,590	0	0.4
	Independent	3,116	0	0.3
	People's Representative	2,074	0	0.2
	Communist	1,366	0	0.1
	Rhuddlan Debt	1,353	0	0.1
	Total	1,019,987	20

[edit] Party totals

Party		Seats	% share of seats
	Labour	28	46.7
	Plaid Cymru	17	28.3
	Conservative	9	15.0
	Liberal Democrat	6	10.0
	Total	60

[edit] See also

• National Assembly for Wales

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Welsh National Assembly Elections 1999

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