Sentences with phrase «welsh assembly seat»

Plaid also failed to gain any of its targets including Ynys Mon, where former leader Ieuan Wyn Jones was standing, as well Llanelli and Rhondda — a Welsh Assembly seat which party leader Leanne Wood took from Labour after a tough campaign in 2016.

Lawyers for Sargeant's son Jack, who was elected to his father's former Welsh assembly seat in February, have written to the QC leading an inquiry into the handling of the sacking.

And so, in a matter of days Wood emerged both as her party's heroine — after dramatically clinching a Welsh assembly seat in Rhondda from Labour — and as a controversial figurehead, following this nomination for the top job.

The current MP is the Conservative David Davies, elected in 2005 and a former member for the Welsh Assembly seat of the same name.

Not exact matches

The organisation now also has a far more influential voice on political issues in Wales and has a seat on the Welsh Assembly Active Travel Act Committee.

Former Conservative MP Neil Hamilton was among the winners for Ukip as the party won its first ever seats in the Welsh Assembly.

With the count still ongoing on Friday morning, there were seven new UKIP assembly members — the first Welsh seats ever claimed by the eurosceptic party.

Labour is poised to win the most seats in the Welsh Assembly elections but could just miss out on an outright majority.

Morgan won the Cardiff North seat in the Welsh Assembly in the 2011 elections.

Over half of Welsh voters chose the Tories, Plaid Cymru or the Liberal Democrats in May this year, yet under Two Member First Past The Post, those parties would be left with less than a third of the seats in the Assembly.

It follows revelations in March that Farage was so desperate to stop Hamilton from fighting for a seat on the Welsh Assembly that he he ripped up an internal assessment of candidates which put Hamilton in prime position.

Dodds has contested elections for the Welsh Liberal Democrats for the area of Montgomeryshire, contesting both the Westminster seat and the Assembly Sseat and the Assembly SeatSeat.

In a record turnout Welsh assembly election the Lib Dems lost 4 of their 5 seats.

The first elections to the newly created National Assembly for Wales were in 1999; the Liberal Democrats took six seats in the inaugural Assembly; Welsh Labour won a plurality of seats, but without an overall majority.

Today, Plaid Cymru is the junior party in a Welsh Labour party coalition with 15 of the 60 seats in the Welsh Assembly.

Labour also remain the largest party in the Welsh Assembly — losing just a single seat - and are on course to win back London by a landslide.

Labour was set to dip below its total of half the seats on the Welsh Assembly.

Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood scored a shock Welsh Assembly result by snatching the Rhondda seat from Labour's Leighton Andrews.

The Welsh Assembly currently has a top up system with FPTP elections for the current 40 Westminster seats, and 20 top - up seats for each of five regions.

Labour's vote collapsed in Scotland and they fell below half of the seats in the Welsh Assembly, and the local election results were the worst for an Opposition party in decades

Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood dealt Labour a body blow - seizing the Rhondda seat on the Welsh Assembly.

In all, 2,700 English councils seats were fought over, along with 129 Scottish Parliament seats, 60 in the Welsh Assembly, and all Police and Crime Commissioner posts in Wales and England.

Party sources were tonight braced to lose around 100 seats in English town hall elections and forfeit overall control of the Welsh Assembly, which it controls by a knife - edge.

Labour are defending half the 60 seats in the Assembly, with leader of Welsh Labour Carwyn Jones the current First Minister.

They are led by Jane Dodds and hold 1 of the 60 seats in the National Assembly for Wales [1] but none of the 40 Welsh seats in the UK House of Commons and none of the four Welsh seats in the European Parliament.

With the current Welsh Government being a minority government run by Welsh Labour, the main opposition party from May — mid October was Plaid Cymru but after one of Plaid's Assembly Members resigned from the party, it had equally the same seats as the Welsh Conservatives.

Jack Sargeant, son of the late Carl Sargeant, has won the Alyn & Deeside by - election and will take his father's seat in the Welsh Assembly.

The son of the late Carl Sargeant has won the Alyn & Deeside by - election and will take his father's seat in the Welsh Assembly.

However, unlike many of his MPs, Corbyn insisted he does not see this Thursday's elections, for the Scottish parliament, Welsh assembly and more than 2,000 local council seats, as a barometer of his leadership.

In the otherwise mainly successful Welsh Assembly elections of 2011 the long serving Welsh Conservative Party leader, Nicholas Bourne (2000 — 2011) lost his regional list seat in Mid and West Wales.

The Welsh Conservatives have one of four Welsh seats in the European Parliament, eight of forty Welsh seats in the UK Parliament and twelve of sixty seats in the National Assembly for Wales.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage targets seven or eight Welsh seats at the general election and plans a «massive assault» on the assembly elections.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage is targeting seven or eight Welsh seats at the general election and plans a «massive assault» on the assembly elections.

Take the regional seats in the Welsh Assembly, for example, which is the most extreme case: since Labour support is concentrated in four out of six regions in which Labour already holds most if not all seats, a Labour vote in the election for those regional seats is absolutely wasted.

UKIP made significant advances in the English council elections, almost doubling their number of seats, and, more notably, the Welsh Assembly, coming from holding no seats at all, to capturing seven.

Law was the Labour member of the Welsh assembly for the seat and an ally of Llew Smith, the left - wing Labour MP who stood down at the 2005 election.

However, the Liberal Democrats won the seat in 2005 and 2010, following strong showings in the area on Cardiff Council and the Welsh Assembly.

Losses in Wales are nothing new for the Liberal Democrats — last year, the party was left with just one seat after the Welsh Assembly election when its four others were taken.

Kirsty Williams has today underlined that it is only by voting Welsh Liberal Democrat will people be able to stop UKIP gaining seats in the National Assembly elections.

In contrast, in the 2007 Welsh Assembly Election, Forward Wales had its candidates (including sitting leader John Marek) stand as independents, to attempt to gain list seats they would not be entitled to if Forward Wales candidates were elected to constituencies in the given region.

Welsh Conservatives did well in the Assembly elections in gaining a numner of first past the post seats and causing a number of others to become highly marginal.

Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood has scored a massive victory over Labour - unexpectedly seizing the Rhondda seat on the Welsh Assembly.