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2003 National Assembly for Wales election
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| election_name | 2003 National Assembly for Wales election |
| country | Wales |
| type | parliamentary |
| ongoing | no |
| previous_election | 1999 National Assembly for Wales election |
| previous_year | 1999 |
| next_election | 2007 National Assembly for Wales election |
| next_year | 2007 |
| seats_for_election | All 60 seats to the National Assembly for Wales |
| majority_seats | 31 |
| election_date | 1 May 2003 |
| 1blank | Constituency Vote |
| 2blank | % and swing |
| 3blank | Regional Vote |
| 4blank | % and swing |
| turnout | 38.2% 7.8% |
| image1 | |
| leader1 | Rhodri Morgan |
| party1 | Welsh Labour |
| leaders_seat1 | Cardiff West |
| last_election1 | 28 seats |
| seats1 | **30** |
| seat_change1 | 2 |
| 1data1 | **340,515** |
| 2data1 | **40.0%** 2.4% |
| 3data1 | **310,658** |
| 4data1 | **36.6%** 1.2% |
| image2 | |
| leader2 | Ieuan Wyn Jones |
| party2 | Plaid Cymru |
| leaders_seat2 | Ynys Môn |
| last_election2 | 17 seats |
| seats2 | 12 |
| seat_change2 | 5 |
| 1data2 | 180,185 |
| 2data2 | 21.2% 7.2% |
| 3data2 | 167,653 |
| 4data2 | 19.7% 10.8% |
| image3 | |
| leader3 | Nick Bourne |
| party3 | Welsh Conservatives |
| leaders_seat3 | Mid and West Wales |
| last_election3 | 9 seats |
| seats3 | 11 |
| seat_change3 | 2 |
| 1data3 | 169,832 |
| 2data3 | 19.9% 4.1% |
| 3data3 | 162,725 |
| 4data3 | 19.2% 2.7% |
| image4 | |
| leader4 | Michael German |
| party4 | Welsh Liberal Democrats |
| leaders_seat4 | South Wales East |
| last_election4 | 6 seats |
| seats4 | 6 |
| seat_change4 | |
| 1data4 | 120,250 |
| 2data4 | 14.1% 0.6% |
| 3data4 | 108,013 |
| 4data4 | 12.7% 0.2% |
| image5 | |
| leader5 | John Marek |
| party5 | John Marek Independent Party |
| color5 | fb0d60 |
| leaders_seat5 | Wrexham |
| last_election5 | *Not established* |
| seats5 | 1 |
| seat_change5 | *New party* |
| 1data5 | 8,749 |
| 2data5 | 1.0% (*N/A*) |
| 3data5 | 11,008 |
| 4data5 | 1.3% (*N/A*) |
| title | First Minister |
| posttitle | First Minister after election |
| before_election | Rhodri Morgan |
| before_party | Welsh Labour |
| after_election | Rhodri Morgan |
| after_party | Welsh Labour |
| map_image | 2003 Senedd Election.svg |
| map_size | 400px |
The 2003 National Assembly for Wales election 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, one short of a majority, Labour chose to govern in minority without a coalition partner.
This election also saw the return of John Marek as an independent member of the Assembly. Of the 60 members elected, 30 were male and 30 were female.
It was held on the same day as the 2003 Scottish Parliament election and 2003 United Kingdom local elections.
Party leaders in 2003
- Welsh Labour – Rhodri Morgan
- Plaid Cymru – Ieuan Wyn Jones
- Welsh Conservatives – Nicholas Bourne
- Welsh Liberal Democrats – Michael James German
- UK Independence Party (UKIP) – Roger Knapman
National vote
- Overall turnout – 38.2% |- |- !rowspan=3 colspan=2 | Parties !colspan=10 | Additional member system !rowspan=2 colspan=5 | Total seats |- !colspan=5 |Constituency !colspan=5 |Region |- ! Votes !! % !! +/− !! Seats !! +/− ! Votes !! % !! +/− !! Seats !! +/− ! Total !! +/− !! % |- |votes % = 40.0 |AMS votes % = 36.6 |Seats % = 50.0 |votes % = 21.2 |AMS votes % = 19.7 |Seats % = 20.0 |votes % = 19.9 |AMS votes % = 19.2 |Seats % = 18.3 |votes % = 14.1 |AMS votes % = 12.7 |Seats % = 10.0 |votes % = — |AMS votes % = 3.5 |Seats % = — |votes % = 2.3 |AMS votes % = 3.5 |Seats % = —
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Votes summary
Constituency and regional summary
[[Mid and West Wales (National Assembly for Wales electoral region)|Mid and West Wales]]
|- ! colspan=2 |Constituency ! Elected member ! Result
| 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 |
| 2. | **Glyn Davies** | Debra Tester | Molly Scott-Cato | Tamsin Dunwoody | Mick Bates | Andrew Jacob | Delyth Richards | Ruth Davies | Iain Sheldon |
| 3. | **Lisa Francis** | Timothy Foster | Christine Gwyther | Steffan John | David Senior | Dominica Roberts | Clive Easton | ||
| 4. | O.J. Williams | Reg Taylor | Catherine Thomas | John Davies | Siôn Jobbins | Thomas Robberts | David Rowlands | ||
| 5. | Paul Davies | Christopher Cato | Anthony Cooper | Ken Harris | Paul Sambrook | ||||
| 6. | Harri Lloyd Davies | David Rees | Mary Megarry | Siân Thomas | |||||
| 7. | David Thomas | Rhianon Passmore | |||||||
| 8. | Gareth Jones | Rina Clarke | |||||||
| 9. | Eddie Woodward |
[[North Wales (National Assembly for Wales electoral region)|North Wales]]
|- ! colspan=2 |Constituency ! Elected member ! Result
| 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** |
| 2. | David Morgan | **Mark Isherwood** | Dafydd Ifan | John Walker | Marc Jones | Carl Seargeant | Nick Bennett | Liz Saville |
| 3. | Mike Green | Janet Finch-Saunders | Jeremy Hart | Colin Jones | Sandy Mewies | Bobby Feeley | Dyfed Edwards | |
| 4. | Albie Fox | Wilfred Hastings | Karen Sinclair | Graham Rees | Eilian Williams | |||
| 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]]
|- ! colspan=2 |Constituency ! Elected member ! Result
| 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 |
| 2. | Fran Rawlings | **David Melding** | Sophia Flouter | Lynn Farr | Lorraine Barrett | Rob Humphreys | **Owen John Thomas** | Madeleine Jeremy | Morfudd Marsden | Don Hulston | |
| 3. | Dominic MacAskill | Dianne Rees | William Cross | Jan Tucker | Sikiru Fahm | Rodney Berman | Chris Franks | Josephine Quintaville | Kenneth Evans | Frank Hughes | |
| 4. | Gwen Griffiths | Jayne Cowan | Raymond Lloyd | Sylvia Latham | Sue Essex | John Dixon | Carole Willis | Anna Wilkins | Helen Walker | David Brown | |
| 5. | Daniel Thomas | Paul Beswick | Jane Davidson | Jacqui Gasson | Eluned Bush | Susan Deare | |||||
| 6. | Craig Piper | Christine Chapman | Nilmini De Silva | Delme Bowen | |||||||
| 7. | Paul Williams | Jane Hutt | |||||||||
| 8. | Heather Douglas | Leighton Andrews | |||||||||
| 9. | Geoff Mungham |
[[South Wales East]]
|- ! colspan=2 |Constituency ! Elected member ! Result
| 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 |
| 2. | **William Graham** | Gareth Roberts | Anne Were | Neil McEvoy | Ed Townsend | Lindsay Whittle | Norman Plaisted | Paul Adam | |
| 3. | **Laura Anne Jones** | Susan Price | Owen Clarke | John Griffiths | Alison Willott | Mohammed Asghar | Fiona Pinto | Hayley O'Rourke | |
| 4. | Nick Ramsay | Andrew Broad | Ernest Hamer | Lynne Neagle | Philip Hobson | Gill Jones | Thomas Flynn | Robert Morris | |
| 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 (National Assembly for Wales electoral region)|South Wales West]]
|- ! colspan=2 |Constituency ! Elected member ! Result
| 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 |
| 2. | Gerald Rowbottom | Gwendolen MacKay | Jan Cliff | Janice Gregory | Cheryl Green | **Dai Lloyd** | Sean Haran | Liz Screen |
| 3. | Chris Smart | Pedr Lewis | Rhodri Griffiths | Val Lloyd | Mike Day | Alun Llewelyn | Gillian Duval | Peter Greenslade |
| 4. | Myr Boult | Stephen Curry | Steve Clegg | Parvaiz Ali | Nick Tregoning | Siân Caiach | Karolina Stolarska | Gary Davies |
| 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 |
References
References
- McCallister, L. (2004) ''Steady State or Second Order? The 2003 National Assembly Elections for Wales'', Political Quarterly, p. 65
- (November 2003). "The National Assembly for Wales elections 2003 – The official report and results".
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