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Coalition Day

Posted by Tom Bodden on May 4, 2007 6:59 AM | 

It's just before 7am and I'm thinking of going straight into breakfast at the Castle Hotel in Conwy after watching the Assembly election results roll in, oh so slowly through the night.
Labour lost some key marginal seats, including that of former culture minister Alun Pugh to the Conservatives in Clwyd West.
The intrepid mountaineer is now planning an assault on Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania, while Darren Millar heads for Cardiff Bay.
It was a bad night for Labour failing to achieve a majority, yet hitting 26 (?) seats with around a third of the vote. (Is that proportional representation?)
But there was Labour delight when Lesley Griffiths snatched Wrexham back from Independent John Marek.

The Tories had most to celebrate picking up five first past the post, while Plaid increased its number of seats, including Aberconwy where former Conwy AM Gareth Jones was returned after four years absent and Llanelli, both from Labour.
Lib Dems held on to their constituency seats and were still hopeful of picking up more on the list.
Everyone's a winner then - well almost.
The BNP clinched a record vote and in North Wales came within a few thousand votes of securing a regional list seat.
You win some and then you lose some.
More when I wake up.


 

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Welcome to ‘Gog in the Bay’, the occasional diary of a political journalist. My name is Tom Bodden, the Welsh Affairs Correspondent of The Daily Post, which is North Wales’ best selling newspaper. I am based full-time at the National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff Bay.

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