National Assembly for Wales election, 1999

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The first National Assembly for Wales election was held in 1999.

Overall turnout: 46.3% ^[1]

Contents 1 First-Past-the-Post results 2 Additional Members System Results 3 Assembly Members returned 4 References

[edit] First-Past-the-Post results

Party		Votes	Seats	Loss/Gain	Share of Vote (%)
	Labour	384,671	27	N/A	37.6
	Plaid Cymru	290,572	9	N/A	28.4
	Conservative	162,133	1	N/A	15.8
	Liberal Democrat	137,857	3	N/A	13.5
	Independent	26,815	0	N/A
	United Socialist	3,967	0	N/A	0.4
	Independent Labour	3,794	0	N/A	0.4
	Tourism and Farmers	2,726	0	N/A	0.3
	Democratic Alliance	1,908	0	N/A	0.2
	Green	1,007	0	N/A	0.1
	New Millennium Bean	849	0	N/A	0.1
	Local Socialist	839	0	N/A	0.1
	People's Representative	774	0	N/A	0.1
	Communist	609	0	N/A	0.1
	Celtic Alliance	210	0	N/A	0.0

[edit] Additional Members System Results

Party		Votes	Seats	Loss/Gain	Share of Vote (%)
	Labour	361,657	1	N/A	35.5
	Plaid Cymru	312,048	8	N/A	30.6
	Conservative	168,206	8	N/A	16.5
	Liberal Democrat	128,008	3	N/A	12.5
	Green	25,858	0	N/A	2.5
	Socialist Labour	10,720	0	N/A	1.1
	Natural Law	3,861	0	N/A	0.4
	United Socialist	3,590	0	N/A	0.4
	Independent	3,116	0	N/A
	People's Representative	2,074	0	N/A
	Communist	1,366	0	N/A	0.1
	Rhuddlan Debt	1,353	0	N/A	0.1

[edit] Assembly Members returned

Party		Seats	Loss/Gain	Share of seats (%)	Share of vote (%)
	Labour	28	N/A	46.7	35.5
	Plaid Cymru	17	N/A	28.3	30.6
	Conservative	9	N/A	15.0	16.5
	Liberal Democrat	6	N/A	10.0	12.5
	Green	0	N/A	0	2.5
	Other	0	N/A	0	2.4
	Total	60	N/A	100	100

[edit] References

• Welsh Assembly Elections: 6 May 1999
• Welsh National Assembly Elections 1999

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