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High turnout in vital Caerphilly Welsh Parliament by-election as votes counted
- On Friday, Plaid Cymru's Lindsay Whittle won Caerphilly with a 3,848-vote majority, ending Labour party's century-long hold on the Welsh Senedd seat.
- Labour's shift to the right left it exposed on its left flank, and its popularity nosedived after Vaughan Gething stepped down last year.
- Whittle took 15,961 votes, or 47 percent, beating Llyr Powell's 12,113 votes, or 36 percent, while Richard Tunnicliffe received 3,713 votes, or 11 percent.
- The defeat drops Labour party from 29 to 28 seats in the 60-member Senedd, costing its effective majority and forcing reliance on Plaid or independents for support.
- The result reshapes the party landscape in Wales as Lindsay Whittle becomes Plaid Cymru's 13th member of the 60-strong Senedd, while Reform UK’s vote surged 34.2%.
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There are elections in the United Kingdom whose practical effects are minimal but which may have a symbolic significance close to an earthquake. The Welsh constituency of Caerphilly, the historic land of miners, had voted mostly to the left for more than a century. So far. In the early morning of this Friday, the scrutiny of the partial elections held on the eve granted its autonomous seat to Lindsay Whittle, the candidate of the nationalist par…
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Total News Sources18
Leaning Left5Leaning Right3Center6Last UpdatedBias Distribution43% Center
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43% Center
L 36%
C 43%
R 21%
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