Brecon and Radnorshire
LDEM: 52.4% (+9.3)
CON: 25.4% (-7.9)
LAB: 8.9% (-8.0)
UKIP: 7.1% (+7.1)
PLAID: 3.9% (+2.8)
Kirsty Williams elected.— Britain Elects (@britainelects) May 6, 2016
And with a big majority of 8170.
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8 Comments
Well done, Kirsty.
Looks overall as though percentage-wise, things were far worse for Labour and the Tories.
The depressing thing sight is Ukip’s vote. Up around 20% in some of the Valleys. It’s taken list seats off the Conservatives and Lib Dems, but I suspect the message is actually meant for Labour.
One seat retained keeps a toehold on the Assembly, but seconds in Cardiff, Ceredigion and Montgomery are depressing: these are seats we should win.
While the List constituencies are stupidly small, we are simply too unpopular outside five or so areas to stand a chance of winning a seat on them, particularly now UKIP – and yes, they do take votes from us from the ‘plague on your houses’ voters – are working Wales. Why the good people of Wales think Neil Hamilton and Mark Reckless have any interest in them or anything to offer them is beyond me. But they did.
One seat and a very poor 5th place in Wales just isn’t good enough. This decline has been going on for some time and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. Changes are surely needed.
malc,
And what changes would you suggest?
Kirsty is a star.
B&R just doesn’t do big majorities!
Till now 🙂
crewegwyn
Perhaps she is a great assembly member, but not a very good leader. Perhaps the team around her just aren’t up to the job. Perhaps they just need help from places like Southport where they have people who know how to win elections. I often read posts on LDV about how great the Welsh Lib Dems are doing, but they keep losing elections. At the moment you are way behind UKIP in 5th place, surely you don’t think the Lib Dems are getting it right.
We won several seats in Wales last time by the skin of our teeth and UKIP’s intervention just changed the maths enough
UKIP are using the PR elections where they can. One their members is also an MEP. Can he actually do both jobs? Is he legally allowed to do so?