2003 National Assembly for Wales election

National Assembly for Wales election, 2003
All 60 seats to the National Assembly for Wales; 31 seats needed for a majority
	Results map of the 2003 National Assembly election (constituency results).
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.^[1]

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

For lists of constituencies and regions, see National Assembly for Wales constituencies and electoral regions.

Party leaders in 2003

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

National vote

Overall turnout - 38.2%

First-Past-the-Post results

Welsh Assembly election, 2003
	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	1	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 Constituency Independents	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

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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	1.2
	Cymru Annibynnol	6,466	0	0
	Mid and West Wales 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
	New Millennium Bean Party	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

Constituency and Regional Summary

Mid and West Wales

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	Conservative Party	Cymru Annibynnol	Green Party of England and Wales	Labour Party	Liberal Democrats	Mid & West Wales Pensioners	Plaid Cymru	ProLife Alliance	UKIP	Vote No 2 Stop the War
1.	Nick Bourne	Mick Grail	Dorienne Robinson	Cherry Short	Kirsty Williams	Vera Jenner	Helen Mary Jones	Sara Jeremy	Mrs. Elizabeth F. Phillips	Adrienne Morgan
2.	Glyn Davies	Debra Tester	Molly Scott-Cato	Tamsin Dunwoody	Mick Bates	Andrew Jacob	Delyth Richards	Ruth Davies	Iain Sheldon	Nina Minnigan
3.	Lisa Francis		Timothy Foster	Christine Gwyther	Steffan John		David Senior	Dominica Roberts	Clive Easton	Robin Benson
4.	O.J. Williams		Reg Taylor	Catherine Thomas	John Davies		Siôn Jobbins	Thomas Robberts	David Rowlands	Jennifer Keal
5.	Paul Davies		Christopher Cato	Anthony Cooper	Ken Harris		Paul Sambrook			David Bellamy
6.	Harri Lloyd Davies			David Rees	Mary Megarry		Siân Thomas
7.	David Thomas			Rhiannon Passmore
8.	Gareth Jones			Rina Clarke
9.				Eddie Woodward

North Wales

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	Communist Party of Britain	Conservative Party	Cymru Annibynnol	Green Party of England and Wales	John Marek Independent Party	Labour Party	Liberal Democrats	Plaid Cymru	UKIP
1.	Glyn Davies	Brynle Williams	Owain Williams	Klaus Armstrong-Braun	John Marek	Lesley Griffiths	Eleanor Burnham	Janet Ryder	Elwyn Williams
2.	David Morgan	Mark Isherwood	Dafydd Ifan	John Walker	Marc Jones	Carl Seargeant	Nick Bennett	Liz Saville	Edwina Theunissen
3.	Mike Green	Janet Finch-Saunders		Jeremy Hart	Colin Jones	Sandy Mewies	Bobby Feeley	Dyfed Edwards	John Walker
4.		Albie Fox		Wilfred Hastings		Karen Sinclair	Graham Rees	Eilian Williams	Francis Wykes
5.		Darren Miller		Gilly Boyd		Wycliffe Barrett	Carole O'Toole	Paul Rowlinson
6.		Guto Bebb		Jim Killock		Ann Jones	Thomas Rippeth	Richard Coombs
7.		Peter Rogers				Alun Pugh
8.		Matt Wright				Denise Idris Jones
9.		Goronwy Edwards				Gerwyn Jones
10.						Martin Eaglestone

South Wales Central

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	Communist Party of Britain	Conservative Party	Cymru Annibynnol	Green Party of England and Wales	Labour Party	Liberal Democrats	New Millennium Bean Party	Plaid Cymru	ProLife Alliance	Socialist Labour Party	UKIP	Vote No 2 Stop the War
1.	Robert David Griffiths	Jonathan Morgan	Rev. Christopher Davies	John Matthews	Rhodri Morgan	Jenny Randerson	Captain Beany	Leanne Wood	Anne Savoury	Cerian Screen	Peter Gracia	Sura Altikriti
2.	Fran Rawlings	David Melding	Sophia Flouter	Lynn Farr	Lorraine Barrett	Rob Humphreys		Owen John Thomas	Madeleine Jeremy	Morfudd Marsden	Don Hulston	John Cox
3.	Dominic MacAskill	Dianne Rees	William Cross	Jan Tucker	Sikiru Fahm	Rodney Berman		Chris Franks	Josephine Quintaville	Kenneth Evans	Frank Hughes	John Palmer
4.	Gwen Griffiths	Jayne Cowan	Raymond Lloyd	Sylvia Latham	Sue Essex	John Dixon		Carole Willis	Anna Wilkins	Helen Walker	David Brown	Alastair Couper
5.		Daniel Thomas		Paul Beswick	Jane Davidson	Jacqui Gasson		Eluned Bush		Susan Deare		Phillip Kingston
6.		Craig Piper			Christine Chapman	Nilmini De Silva		Delme Bowen				George Crabbe
7.		Paul Williams			Jane Hutt
8.		Heather Douglas			Leighton Andrews
9.					Geoff Mungham

South Wales East

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	British National Party	Conservative Party	Cymru Annibynnol	Green Party of England and Wales	Labour Party	Liberal Democrats	Plaid Cymru	ProLife Alliance	Socialist Labour Party	UKIP
1.	Pauline Gregory	David Thomas Charles Davies	Catherine Lloyd	Peter Varley	Peter Law	Michael James German	Jocelyn Davies	Joseph Anthony Biddulph	Arthur Scargill	David Rowlands
2.		William Graham	Gareth Roberts	Anne Were	Neil McAvoy	Ed Townsend	Lindsay Whittle	Norman Plaisted	Paul Adam	Neal Reynolds
3.		Laura Anne Jones	Susan Price	Owen Clarke	John Griffiths	Alison Willott	Mohammed Asghar	Fiona Pinto	Hayley O'Rourke	Roger Thomas
4.		Nick Ramsay	Andrew Broad	Ernest Hamer	Lynne Neagle	Philip Hobson	Gill Jones	Thomas Flynn	Robert Morris	Hugh Moelwyn Hughes
5.		John Prosser		Geraldine Layton	Rosemary Butler	Rob Roffe	Joanne Daniels		Mary Millington
6.		Barrie O'Keefe		Teresa Telfer	Huw Lewis	Huw Price	Aneurin Preece		Reehana Sayeed
7.		Terri-Anne Matthews		Matt Wootton	Jeff Cuthbert
8.		Matthew Evans			Siân James

South Wales West

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	Conservative Party	Cymru Annibynnol	Green Party of England and Wales	Labour Party	Liberal Democrats	Plaid Cymru	ProLife Alliance	Socialist Labour Party	UKIP
1.	Alun Cairns	Rev. Christopher Davies	Martyn Shrewsbury	Brian Gibbons	Peter Black	Janet Davies	Gerardo Brienza	Christopher Herriott	Richard Lewis
2.	Gerald Rowbottom	Gwendolen MacKay	Jan Cliff	Janice Gregory	Cheryl Green	Dai Lloyd	Sean Haran	Liz Screen	Alan Robinson
3.	Chris Smart	Pedr Lewis	Rhodri Griffiths	Val Lloyd	Mike Day	Alun Llewelyn	Gillian Duval	Peter Greenslade	Tim Jenkins
4.	Myr Boult	Stephen Curry	Steve Clegg	Parvaiz Ali	Nick Tregoning	Siân Caiach	Karolina Stolarska	Gary Davies	David Evans
5.	Peter Morris		Deborah James	Carwyn Jones	Jackie Radford	Richard Williams
6.	Richard Hill		Tony Young	Edwina Hart		Eirian Arwyn
7.	Stephen James			Gwenda Thomas
8.				Andrew Thomas

External Links

Welsh Assembly Elections 2003

References

^ McCallister, L. (2004) Steady State or Second Order? The 2003 National Assembly Elections for Wales, Political Quarterly, P. 65

[1] McCallister, L. (2004) Steady State or Second Order? The 2003 National Assembly Elections for Wales, Political Quarterly, P. 65

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Party leaders in 2003

National vote

First-Past-the-Post results

Additional Member System results

Assembly Members returned

Constituency and Regional Summary

Mid and West Wales

North Wales

South Wales Central

South Wales East

South Wales West

See also

External Links

References