2004 Welsh local elections
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 Colours denote the winning party with outright control (left), and the largest party by ward (right) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2004 Welsh local elections took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of all twenty-two local authorities in Wales. They were held alongside other local elections in the United Kingdom. The previous elections were held in 1999.
The elections were originally scheduled for May 2003, but were delayed to avoid a conflict with the 2003 Wales Assembly elections. However, this meant they took place on the same day as the 2004 elections to the European Parliament.[1] 3,135 candidates competed for 1,262 council seats across Wales, in 879 electoral wards.[1]
Results
[edit]| Party | Votes[2] | % | +/- | Councils | +/- | Seats | +/- | |
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| Labour | 278,193 | 30.6% |  3.8
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8 | 
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479 | 84
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| Independent | 205,722 | 22.6% |  3.5
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3 | 1
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321 | 26
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| Plaid Cymru | 149,352 | 16.4% | 1.8
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1 | 2
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175 | 30
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| Liberal Democrats | 126,135 | 13.9% | 0.5
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0 |
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146 | 48
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| Conservative | 99,991 | 11.0% | 0.9
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1 | 1
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107 | 32
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| Green | 10,799 | 1.2% | 0.4
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0 |
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0 | 1
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| Other | 39,492 | 4.3% | 0.5
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0 |
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35 | 2
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| No overall control | n/a | n/a | n/a | 9 | 2
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n/a | n/a | |
Councils
[edit]In all 22 Welsh councils the whole of the council was up for election.
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Analysis of local election results data for Wales 2004 (including turnout and extent of postal voting)" (PDF). Electoral Commission. p. 2. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
- ^ "Local Elections Handbook 2004" (PDF). Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre, University of Plymouth. 2004. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
External links
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