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.
Outcome and changes
A
BBC report of the election in Wales stated that "Despite a night of high tension the political map in Wales virtually looks the same as before".
The only seats to change hands were
Carmarthen East and Dinefwr which
Adam Price
Adam Robert Price (born 23 September 1968) is a Welsh politician serving as the Leader of Plaid Cymru since 2018. , he has sat in the Senedd for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, having previously been a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Carmart ...
of Plaid Cymru gained from Labour and
Ynys Môn which Labour gained from Plaid Cymru. Plaid failed to gain
Rhondda which
Chris Bryant held for Labour with a majority of over 16,000, a result the BBC said meant that Bryant had "confounded his critics".
Bryant, a former curate who had once been a member of the Conservatives had been criticised as being an odd fit and "too exotic" for traditional Labour supporters in the constituency which he was contesting for the first time. This had led
Plaid Cymru to feel they had a chance of a victory, a feet they had surprisingly achieved in the
equivalent constituency at the
1999 National Assembly for Wales election
The first National Assembly for Wales elections were held on 6 May 1999. The overall turnout of voters was 46.3%. Although Welsh Labour were the biggest party, they did not gain enough seats to form a majority government and instead entered int ...
. Plaid's candidate
Leanne Wood had publicly claimed she would win 53% of the vote.
The Conservatives again failed to win any seat in Wales, with their best result being in
Monmouth
Monmouth ( , ; cy, Trefynwy meaning "town on the Monnow") is a town and community in Wales. It is situated where the River Monnow joins the River Wye, from the Wales–England border. Monmouth is northeast of Cardiff, and west of London. I ...
where they finished just 384 votes behind Labour.
The Liberal Democrats failed to add to their two seats, with
Jenny Willott reducing Labour's majority in
Cardiff Central to just 659 votes.
References
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