United Kingdom general election, 2001 (Wales)

United Kingdom general election, 2001 (Wales)

7 June 2001
All 40 Welsh seats to the House of Commons
First party Second party Third party   Leader Tony Blair Ieuan Wyn Jones Charles Kennedy Party Labour Plaid Cymru Liberal Democrat Leader since 21 July 1994 3 August 2000 9 August 1999 Last election 34 seats, 54.7% 4 seats, 10.0% 2 seats, 12.4% Seats won 34 4 2 Seat change Popular vote 666,956 195,893 189,254 Percentage 48.6% 14.3% 13.8% Swing 6.2% 4.3% 1.5%

These are the results of the 2001 United Kingdom general election in Wales. The election was held on 7 June 2001 and all 40 seats in Wales were contested. The overall result remained exactly the same as in the previous election in 1997, with only two changes - Labour gained Ynys Môn from Plaid Cymru and Plaid gained Carmarthen East and Dinefwr from Labour. The Conservatives once again won no seats; this was only the second election since 1918 to leave them with no representation in Wales.

Results

Below is a table summarising the results of the 2001 general election in Wales.^[1]

Party[2]		Seats					Votes
		Total	Gains	Losses	Net +/-	% seats	Total votes	% votes	Change
	Labour	34	1	1		85.0	666,956	48.6	6.2
	Conservative	0	0	0		—	288,623	21.0	1.5
	Plaid Cymru	4	1	1		10.0	195,893	14.3	4.3
	Liberal Democrat	2	0	0		5.0	189,254	13.8	1.5
	UKIP	0	0	0		—	12,552	0.9	0.9
	Green	0	0	0		—	3,753	0.3	0.2
	Socialist Labour	0	0	0		—	2,805	0.2	0.2
	Socialist Alliance	0	0	0		—	2,258	0.2	N/A
	ProLife Alliance	0	0	0		—	1,609	0.1	0.1
	Communist	0	0	0		—	384	0.0
	BNP	0	0	0		—	278	0.0	N/A
	Other parties	0	0	0		—	7,959	0.6	N/A

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