National Assembly for Wales election, 2003

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The National Assembly for Wales election, 2003, was the second general election to the National Assembly for Wales. It was held on May 1, 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.

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

Contents 1 Party Leaders in 2003 2 National Vote 2.1 First-Past-the-Post results 2.2 Additional Member System Results 2.3 Assembly Members returned 3 See also

[edit] Party Leaders in 2003

• Labour - Rhodri Morgan
• Plaid Cymru- Ieuan Wyn Jones
• Conservative - Nicholas Bourne
• Liberal Democrats - Michael German
• UK Independence Party - Jeffrey Titford

[edit] National Vote

• Overall turnout - 38.2%

[edit] 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
	UK Independence	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

[edit] Additional Member System Results

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	12.5
	Green	30,028	0	0	3.5
	UK Independence	29,427	0	0	3.4
	John Marek	11,008	0	0	1.2
	Socialist Labour	10,358	0	0
	Independent Wales	6,466	0	0
	Pensioners	3,968	0	0
	British National	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

[edit] Assembly Members returned

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
	UK Independence	0	0	0	3.4
	Other	0	0	0	3.9
	Total	60	0	100	100

[edit] See also

• Welsh Assembly election, 1999
• Scottish Parliament election, 2003 and United Kingdom local elections, 2003 the same day
• National Assembly for Wales election, 2007