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Wales Results

Welsh Assembly Results
Party Welsh Labour Plaid Cymru Welsh Conservative UKIP Wales Welsh Liberal Democrat
Seats 29 12 11 7 1
Change −1 +1 −3 +7 −4

After 60 of 60 seats About these resultsResults in full

Latest headlines

  1. Labour win 29 seats - but fall short of a majority
  2. UKIP wins its first seats in the Assembly
  3. Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood ousts Labour in Rhondda
  4. Mapping the election - see party vote share by constituency across Wales

South Wales East

Welsh Assembly region

Results

Party Elected Seats Votes % Net percentage change in seats
Party

UKIP

UKIP Wales

Elected Mark Reckless David Rowlands Seats 2 Votes 34,524 17.8% Net percentage change in seats +12.5
Party

CON

Welsh Conservative

Elected Oscar Asghar Seats 1 Votes 33,318 17.2% Net percentage change in seats −2.4
Party

PC

Plaid Cymru

Elected Steffan Lewis Seats 1 Votes 29,686 15.3% Net percentage change in seats +3.2
Party

LAB

Welsh Labour

Elected - Seats 0 Votes 74,424 38.3% Net percentage change in seats −7.3
Party

AWA

Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party

Elected - Seats 0 Votes 7,870 4.1% Net percentage change in seats +4.1
Party

LD

Welsh Liberal Democrat

Elected - Seats 0 Votes 6,784 3.5% Net percentage change in seats −2.5
Party

GRN

Wales Green Party

Elected - Seats 0 Votes 4,831 2.5% Net percentage change in seats −0.2
Party

MRLP

Monster Raving Loony Party

Elected - Seats 0 Votes 1,115 0.6% Net percentage change in seats +0.6
Party

TUSC

TUSC

Elected - Seats 0 Votes 618 0.3% Net percentage change in seats +0.3
Party

CPB

Welsh Communist Party

Elected - Seats 0 Votes 492 0.3% Net percentage change in seats −0.1
Party

NF

National Front

Elected - Seats 0 Votes 429 0.2% Net percentage change in seats +0.2

Turnout

Turnout

41.8%

Region Profile

The South Wales East region is made up of eight constituencies.

It elects 12 members, eight directly elected constituency members and four additional members. It includes the city of Newport and its population of more than 140,000 people. Larger towns include Caerphilly and the former mining town of Merthyr Tydfil - which is one of the most deprived towns in the UK. It also includes one of the most affluent parts of Wales - rural Monmouthshire. The constituencies which make up the South Wales East region are: Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Islwyn, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Monmouth, Newport East, Newport West and Torfaen. At the 2011 election, the Conservatives and Plaid Cymru both had 2 South Wales East regional AMs.

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