2003 National Assembly for Wales election

National Assembly for Wales election, 2003

1 May 2003
All 60 seats to the National Assembly for Wales
First party Second party   File:Ieuan Wyn Jones.jpg Leader Rhodri Morgan Ieuan Wyn Jones Party Labour Plaid Cymru Leader's seat Cardiff West Ynys Môn Last election 28 seats 17 seats Seats won 30 12 Seat change +2 -5 Popular vote 340,535 180,185 Percentage 40.0% 21.2%   Third party Fourth party   File:Nb1Col.jpg Leader Nick Bourne Michael German Party Conservative Liberal Democrats Leader's seat Mid and West Wales South Wales East Last election 9 seats 6 seats Seats won 11 6 Seat change +2 0 Popular vote 169,894 120,250 Percentage 19.9% 14.1%
First Minister before election Rhodri Morgan Labour Elected First Minister Rhodri Morgan Labour

The National Assembly for Wales election, 2003 was the second general election to the National Assembly for Wales. It was held on 1 May 2003.The election was characterised by a resurgence for the Labour Party, whilst Plaid Cymru saw a reduction in support and the number of Assembly Members they returned. Having won thirty seats Labour chose to govern without a coalition partner.

This election also saw the returning of John Marek as an independent member of the Assembly.

Party leaders in 2003

• Welsh Labour - Rhodri Morgan
• Plaid Cymru- Ieuan Wyn Jones
• Welsh Conservative - Nicholas Bourne
• Welsh Liberal Democrats - Michael German
• United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) - Jeffrey Titford

National vote

• Overall turnout - 38.2%

Results map of the 2003 National Assembly election (constituency results).

First-Past-the-Post results

Welsh Assembly election, 2003

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	30	4	1	+3	75	40.0	340,535	+2.44
	Plaid Cymru	5	0	4	-4	12.5	21.2	180,185	-7.22
	Conservative	1	0	0	0	2.5	19.9	169,842	+4.08
	Liberal Democrats	3	0	0	0	7.5	14.1	120,250	+0.68
	UKIP	0	0	0	0	0	2.3	19,795
	John Marek Independent Party	1	0	0	+1	0	1.0	8,749
	Independent	0	0	0	0	0	0.5	5,101
	Tinker Against the Assembly	0	0	0	0	0	0.3	2,201
	Socialist Alliance	0	0	0	0	0	0.2	1,554
	Socialist Alternative	0	0	0	0	0	0.1	1,193
	Caerphilly Ind	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	930
	Socialist Labour	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	410
	Captain Beany	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	289
	ProLife Alliance	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	239
	Annibynnol Cymru	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	114

Swing from Plaid Cymru to Labour of 4.83%

• Total votes cast - 851,387

Additional Member System results

File:WelshAssemblyRegions 2003.jpg

Results map of the 2003 National Assembly election (regional list results).

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Party		Votes	Seats	Loss/Gain	Share of Vote (%)
Labour	310,658	0	-1	36.6
Plaid Cymru	167,653	7	-1	19.7
Conservative	162,725	10	+2	19.2
Liberal Democrats	108,013	3	0	12.7
Green	30,028	0	0	3.5
UKIP	29,427	0	0	3.5
	John Marek	11,008	0	0	1.3
Socialist Labour	10,358	0	0
	Independent Wales	6,466	0	0
	Pensioners	3,968	0	0
BNP	3,210	0	0
ProLife Alliance	2,183	0	0
	Vote 2 Stop The War	1,729	0	0
Communist	1,099	0	0
	Captain Beany	1,027	0	0

• Total votes cast - 849,552

Assembly Members returned

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Party		Seats	Loss/Gain	Share of seats (%)	Share of vote (%)
Labour	30	+2	50.0	36.6
Plaid Cymru	12	-5	20.0	19.7
Conservative	11	+2	18.3	19.2
Liberal Democrats	6	0	10.0	12.5
	John Marek	1	+1	1.7	1.2
Green	0	0	0	3.5
UKIP	0	0	0	3.4
	Other	0	0	0	3.9
	Total	60	0	100	100

Regional lists

Mid and West Wales

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See also

• Scottish Parliament election, 2003 and United Kingdom local elections, 2003 the same day