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	Institute of Welsh Affairs
		The headline story of the May 2003 Welsh Assembly elections was of Labour recovering its heartland Valley seats of Rhondda, Islwyn and Llanelli from Plaid Cymru and placing itself firmly back in its traditional saddle of dominance, if not complete control, of Welsh politics.
		Apart from the Welsh language, which did not play a significant part in the campaign, Plaid Cymru is of course, most clearly identified with its constitutional aspiration of greater self governance for Wales.
		It was noteworthy that while Labour did badly in the local elections in England, and also faltered to an extent in Scotland, it emerged as the clear victor in Wales.
	www.iwa.org.uk /news_analysis/elections2003.html (1334 words)

	National Assembly for Wales election, 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The National Assembly for Wales election, 2003, was the second general election to the National Assembly for Wales.
		The election was characterised by a resurgence for the Labour Party, whilst Plaid Cymru saw a reduction in support and the number of Assembly Members they returned.
		This election also saw the returning of John Marek as an independent member of the Assembly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Welsh_Assembly_election,_2003 (131 words)

	Assembly Labour News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Welsh Labour said Campbell had refused to rule out the Liberals joining forces with the Tories in the Assembly and that this was simply the latest attempt to position his party on the right of Welsh and British politics.
		Welsh Labour Deputy Health Minister and AM for Newport East John Griffiths said the rightward drift would be received poorly in Wales and warned the Lib Dems would pay the price at the ballot box.
		Furthermore, on the day when the Welsh public are looking to their politicians to provide the politics to live up to our landmark new building, the Tories have taken the opportunity to try and establish yet another committee to look into the past funding of soon-to-be-merged quangos.
	www.assemblylabour.com (3331 words)

	No bill, no will - June 2003
		The Welsh assembly has achieved what even progressive Sweden has failed to do: parity between the number of men and women elected to it.
		The Welsh women in politics and outside, who were campaigning for greater representation were not entirely convinced by the system adopted by the Labour Party in the 1997 elections.
		In 1999, in the first election since the formation of the Welsh Assembly, 42 per cent of Labour party members were women.
	www.indiatogether.org /2003/jun/ksh-represent.htm (1075 words)

	Welsh Icons - Plaid
		Plaid Cymru contested few elections in its early years, preferring to concentrate on the promotion of the Welsh language and its culture, reflecting a split in Welsh nationalism over the question of whether to prioritise the constitutional separation of Wales from the United Kingdom or the promotion of the Welsh language.
		The Assembly elections of May 2003 saw the party's representation fall from 17 to 12, with the spectacular 1999 gains such of Rhondda, Islwyn, Llanelli and Conwy reverting to Labour.
		In the General Election of May 5, 2005, Plaid lost the Ceredigion seat to the Liberal Democrats, the result was a dissapointment to Plaid, who had hoped to gain Ynys Môn, whilst holding its four seats.
	www.welshicons.org.uk /html/plaid.html (1001 words)

	Section 6 - Elections and Referendums \| Ofcom
		For a parliamentary by-election, this period begins with the issuing of a writ or on such earlier date as is notified in the London Gazette.
		For the Scottish Parliament elections, the period begins with the dissolution of the Scottish Parliament or, in the case of a by-election, with the date of the occurrence of a vacancy.
		For the National Assembly for Wales, the Northern Ireland Assembly, the London Assembly and for local government elections, it is the last date for publication of notices of the election.
	www.ofcom.org.uk /tv/ifi/codes/bcode/elections (1454 words)

	United Kingdom Election Results
		Election results from the general election of 1983 onwards are in these files in the same order.
		European Parliamentary Election in Yorkshire and the Humber region by constituency, 1999.
		All GLC election results are linked on this index page, along with results of direct elections to the Inner London Education Authority (1986-90).
	www.election.demon.co.uk /election.html (1198 words)

	Wales on the Web: The Political process
		The paper examines voting behaviour during the Assembly elections and the reasons why many had not voted, and studied their interest in politics and the Assembly election and their attitudes to the campaign and devolution.
		The report is a study into the first elections of the National Assembly of Wales, by Richard Wyn Jones and Dafydd Trystan of the Institute of Welsh Politics at Aberystwyth University.
		They include general election results from 1983 to 2001, by-elections from 1979, European Parliament Elections 1979-1999, Referendum on the establishment of the Welsh Assembly and the results of the National Assembly Elections in 1999 and 2003.
	www.cymruarywe.org /cayw/index/en/324/9 (1097 words)

	WALES CPB CYMRU
		The Communist Party's agent was refused election documents and a copy of the electoral register by the local council clerk.
		In the general election a year later the Party scored much bigger successes, with the election of two communist MPs taking the class struggle to the heart of the bourgeois parliament.
		The great practical problem was the folding of addresses and enveloping of this address in time for one to be posted to each elector and this was made possible by a team of as fine a band of real workers as could possibly have been gathered together.
	welshcommunists.co.uk /election2003.htm (2171 words)

	GENERAL ELECTION MAY AND JUNE 2005 PROMISES FOR VOTES \| LABOUR PARTY TONY BLAIR, GORDON BROWN, JOHN PRESCOTT \| ...
		General elections are elections of the whole House of Commons at one time: one Member of Parliament for each constituency in the United Kingdom.
		A parliamentary by-election is held when a seat falls vacant in the House of Commons, because an MP dies, resigns or can no longer be an MP for some other reason, such as being made a member of the House of Lords.
		By tradition, the procedure for initiating a by-election (known as 'moving the writ') is usually initiated by the political party which held the seat before the vacancy.
	www.bushywood.com /general_election.htm (1844 words)

	The Electoral Commission : About us : Publications : Statutory election reports : Welsh election reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Welsh Assembly Government asked the Commission to compile the report which will provide a benchmark for all future local elections.To view a Welsh language version of this report, please visit our Welsh language website.
		An academic analysis of election results data, including turnout and extent of postal voting, by Professors Michael Thrasher and Colin Rallings of the University of Plymouth Elections Centre.
		Academic analysis of coverage of the elections by the Welsh media, undertaken by the Wales Media Forum at Cardiff University.
	www.electoralcommission.org.uk /about-us/waleselecreport.cfm/text (414 words)

	SN 5052 -Wales Life and Times Study (Welsh Assembly Election Study), 2003
		In 1997 a referendum study was conducted in Wales and Scotland (held at the UK Data Archive under SN:3952), followed by election studies covering the first elections in 1999 to the Welsh National Assembly (held under SN:4180) and Scottish Parliament, both funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
		An earlier Welsh election study, covering the 1979 general election, is also held at the UK Data Archive under SN:1591, but is not part of the WLTS series.
		There was no general election held in 2003, hence the name change of the survey compared with the previous wave held in 2001.
	www.data-archive.ac.uk /findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=5052 (503 words)

	CNN.com - World News: Election Watch
		Assembly: The Scottish parliament consists of 129 seats with 73 of its members representing the constituencies and 56 seats representing the regions (there are 8 regions in Scotland, each with 7 representatives
		The Welsh Assembly was created under the Government of Wales Act 1998, after the region held a referendum asking voters to approve of a legislative body to govern Wales.
		In this election a ‘rolling registration’ was used to allow disenfranchised voters such as the homeless, patients, and prisoners the option to cast their ballots.
	edition.cnn.com /WORLD/election.watch/europe/wales2.html (195 words)

	Analysis: N. Ireland peace road becomes rougher after assembly election
		At the last assembly poll in 1998, the UUP won 28 seats, the SDLP 24, the DUP 20 and Sinn Fein 18.
		The new assembly may not convene for weeks or even months and the re-introduction of home rule, rather than from London, appears a distant prospect.
		Most analysts agree that this election may merely be the curtain raiser for a prolonged round of tough negotiations.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /en/doc/2003-11/29/content_285867.htm (679 words)

	CNN.com - World - Election Watch
		In general, the Welsh Assembly will not be able to overturn legislation passed by the Parliament.
		The Welsh Assembly will have approximately the same responsibility for government spending as the current secretary of state for Wales.
		The proposal for the creation of a Welsh Assembly was approved with 559,419 votes (50.3%) in favor of the assembly and 552,698 votes (49.7%) against it.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/election.watch/europe/wales.html (286 words)

	Federal Union \| second elections in Scotland and Wales
		The elections were in effect new opportunities for promulgation of green ideas; unlikely to win any constituency seats, much of the focus was on gaining 'second' votes for those members to be elected by proportional representation.
		Plaid Cymru are committed to strengthening Welsh status and influence in the EU; the Liberal Democrats would abolish the position of Secretary of State for Wales establishing a new post of Secretary of State for the nations and regions.
		In the 2003 Scottish elections the smaller parties (Greens, Scottish Socialist Party and others) all laid particular stress on the importance of the second ballot and between them won no less than 23% of it compared to less than 10% of the first ballot.
	www.federalunion.org.uk /uk/secondelection.shtml (2763 words)

	Welsh Conservatives - News Story - Labour challenged on National Art Gallery view
		Welsh Conservatives have challenged the Labour Party to say whether or not it supports the idea of a National Art Gallery for Wales.
		But in papers to the National Assembly's assembly culture committee there are heavy hints that Labour may be poised to do a significant U-turn and adopt Conservative policy on the issue.
		The report was commissioned by the Arts Council and National Museums Wales and sponsored by the Welsh Assembly Government.
	www.conservatives.com /wales/story.cfm?obj_id=130635 (357 words)

	CNN.com - World - Election Watch
		British Parliament: The United Kingdom's bicameral parliament is composed of the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
		Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly: The May 6, 1999, polls elected members to the newly-formed and separate Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly.
		The May 1999 elections were the result of referendums held in Scotland and Wales in September 1997; 74.3% of Scottish electors and 50.3% of Welsh electors voted in favor of the establishment of their respective parliaments.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/election.watch/europe/scotland.wales.html (196 words)

	The Electoral Commission : Election results
		Our records begin from the UK Parliamentary general election held in 2001 to the UK Parliamentary general election held in 2005.
		The House of Commons library has also published a research paper giving results for UK elections between 1945 and 2003.
		If you are interested in the results of elections in a particular local council, you should contact the Returning Officer for that council, as they will always be the best source of results information.
	www.electoralcommission.gov.uk /election-data (341 words)

	Office of the General Assembly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The assembly committee, by a vote of 29/17/2, recommended approval of the alternative language suggested by the Advisory Committee on the Constitution.
		The assembly committee, by a vote of 43/5/0, recommended approval of the amended language proposed by the Advisory Committee on the Constitution.
		The assembly committee recommended approval of the recommendation from the Office of the General Assembly as well as the additional amendment suggested by the Advisory Committee on the Constitution, by a vote of 46/0/1.
	www.pcusa.org /oga/list_amendments2001.htm (4073 words)

	National Assembly for Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There have been two elections to the Assembly, in 1999 and 2003.
		The next election is due to be held on May 3, 2007.
		National Assembly for Wales constituencies and electoral regions
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Welsh_Assembly (2819 words)

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		The elections took place on Thursday 10 June 2004 7.9 Costs of the verification were required by the Regulations to be divided equally between the three elections, and this was undertaken.
		The outcome of an election can only be challenged by way of electoral petition within 21 days of the election, after which the result stands irrespective of any later doubts raised.
		Financial Issues 8.4 During the elections which took place in 2003, 2004 and 2005 a total of £104,191.00 was paid to individual employees.
	www.bridgend.gov.uk /Web1/groups/public/documents/report/014962.doc (2417 words)

	RETURN TO INDEX
		All elections generate their own mythology, and those for the Welsh Assembly of 1 May have proved to be no exception.
		Looking at total votes cast in all Welsh elections since 1997 - the last British state general election to be held before the establishment of the Assembly - it can be seen that this was Labour's worst performance in this period, excepting the European elections of 1999.
		But it is not the case, as Jon Osmond has argued, that 'Plaid Cymru's underlying failure in the election was that as a nationalist party it did not manage to capture any clear or distinctive national themes.
	www.angelfire.com /alt/ceri_evans/other_material/murky_brown_water.htm (2668 words)

	Special report: elections 2004 \| Special Reports \| Guardian Unlimited Politics
		Postal voting: A dispute over alleged vote-rigging in the local elections is to be contested in the courts after the Liberal Democrats mounted an official challenge to results yesterday.
		Election fallout: The Tory camp is united only in its failure to agree, whilst it is time to get back to issues people care about for Labour.
		Greens: The Green party yesterday hailed its success in the local council elections as it won around 10% of the vote where it fielded candidates and increased its overall number of seats by eight.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /elections2004/0,14549,1211033,00.html (3031 words)

	Links
		The National Assembly of Wales Welsh Political Archive gives a comprehensive breakdown of results in the Welsh elections of 1999 and features digitised copies of electoral ephemera published by the candidates in the 1999 campaign.
		There is a collection of US presidential campaign memorabilia in the America Votes collection at Duke University, which covers US presidential elections from the late 19th century to the present day.
		This by-election website was set up to create a digital archive of the ephemera - leaflets, posters, postcards and newsletters - produced by candidates and political parties contesting any by-election held since the 1945 General Election.
	www.geocities.com /by_elections/links.html (390 words)

	Welsh Conservatives - News Story - Scrap the palace for politicians
		Nick Bourne, leader of the Conservatives in the Welsh Assembly issued a final rallying call to voters, saying only the Conservatives could put an end to the "wasteful agenda" in the Welsh Assembly.
		Welsh Conservatives have centred their campaign on the "wasteful agenda"' of the Assembly.
		In the campaign, Welsh Conservatives have focused on the people's priorities such as drugs, asylum and waste.
	www.conservatives.com /wales/story.cfm?obj_id=59957 (262 words)

	Forward Wales, Cymru Ymlaen
		In the Welsh Labour manifesto of 2003 and again in the General Election Manifesto of 2005, Labour declared that they were committed to scrapping home care charges for disabled people and even gave a date of introduction for the scheme in September 2005.
		On Thursday 11th May, the First Minister, Rhodri Morgan AM and his cabinet Ministers visited Wrexham under the banner "Your right to put questions to the Welsh Assembly Government" Ken Mack, a long standing and well known Wrexham campaigner for the elderly and people with disabilities discovered this was not the case.
		Forward Wales was founded in Autumn 2003 as a response to the victory of independent candidate Dr. John Marek in the Welsh Assembly elections, 2003.
	www.forwales.com (758 words)

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