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Friday, 04 May 2007 |
Labour met with mixed success in the Welsh Assembly elections yesterday
- while it is still the largest party, the Tories and Plaid Cymru
made signficant inroads.
First Minister Rhodri Morgan had said that he would resign if Labour
performed poorly, but said the party had "proved the doom-mongers
wrong", and that while it hadn't won, neither had it "exactly lost".
He added that he did not expect there to be any decisions about
coalitions or agreements with other parties until Tuesday next week.
The Welsh Liberal Democrats said it was "clear that the people of Wales
have decided that no one party should command a majority in the
assembly".
Plaid leader Ieuan Wyn Jones, who kept his seat, said if no party had a
clear majority "we all have a responsibility to look at the results to
see if we can put forward a stable government for Wales".
Like the Scottish Parliament, the Assembly has its first ethnic minority member - Plaid Cymru's Mohammad Asghar.
After most results were declared, Labour was on about 32 per cent of
the vote - down 8.5 per cent - Plaid 23 per cent, the Conservatives 20
per cent, and the Liberal Democrats 16 per cent.
Turnout was at approximately 43 per cent, from 38 per cent four years ago.
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