The 2017 United Kingdom general election in Wales was held on 8 June 2017; all 40 seats in Wales were contested.[1] The election for each seat was conducted on the basis of first-past-the-post.
The Labour party won the most votes in Wales, with the Conservatives winning overall across the UK.[2]
Results summary
Analysis
The Labour Party remained the largest party in Wales and won an even larger majority of seats after gaining three seats from the Conservatives. Its 48.9% of the vote and total of 771,354 popular votes were its best in Wales since 1997.[3]
The Conservative Party, who entered the campaign with high hopes of making gains, saw its representation reduced back to the levels it won in the 2010 general election.[4]
Plaid Cymru won back Ceredigion after the constituency's 12 years in Liberal Democrat hands, and brought its tally up to four seats, which was its best result showing since 2001 and one of its joint best in history.[5][6]
Plaid Cymru's gain in Ceredigion and the Liberal Democrats' failure to make gains elsewhere meant that this was the first time in Welsh electoral history where there were no Liberal or Liberal Democrat MPs elected to represent a Welsh constituency in a Westminster Parliamentary election.[7][8]
Target seats
Labour
Conservative
- Bridgend, Labour, 4.9% (Labour Hold)
- Wrexham, Labour, 5.6% (Labour Hold)
- Clwyd South, Labour, 6.9% (Labour Hold)
- Delyn, Labour, 7.8% (Labour Hold)
- Alyn and Deeside, Labour, 8.1% (Labour Hold)
- Newport West, Labour, 8.7% (Labour Hold)
Plaid Cymru
Opinion polling
See also
Notes
- ^ Including the Green Party.
References
- ^ "Election 2017 – Wales". BBC News. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
- ^ "UK Election Statistics: 1918-2022, A Long Century of Elections" (PDF). House of Commons Library. p. 22.
- ^ Colombeau, Joseph (29 June 2017). "The 2017 General Election – the numbers behind the result – London Datastore". Retrieved 27 December 2020.
- ^ Watson, Leon (9 June 2017). "Tory hopes of breakthrough in Wales dashed as Labour gain Gower, Vale of Clwyd and Cardiff North". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
- ^ "Meet Ben Lake - Wales' youngest Member of Parliament". ITV News. 9 June 2017. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
- ^ Coles, Jon (10 June 2017). "Plaid wrestle Ceredigion from Lib Dems". The Ceredigion Herald. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
- ^ "No Liberal MP in Wales for the first time since 1859". BBC News. 9 June 2017. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
- ^ Shipton, Martin (9 June 2017). "The end of Liberalism in Wales as party loses Ceredigion seat". WalesOnline. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
