US EditionWales' Nationalist Plaid Cymru Holds Off Reform UK in Vote
Lindsay Whittle won with 15,961 votes, ending Labour’s 107-year hold in Caerphilly amid a record 50.43% turnout, signaling a major shift in Welsh politics.
- On Thursday, Lindsay Whittle, Plaid Cymru winning candidate, secured the Caerphilly Senedd seat, ending Labour Party's century-long hold and defeating Reform UK.
- With decades in local politics, Lindsay Whittle, Plaid Cymru candidate, has campaigned locally for decades, standing 18 council elections and every Senedd election in the last 26 years.
- Vote counts show that Lindsay Whittle received 15,961 votes, Llyr Powell 12,113, and Labour 3,713 amid a 50.43 turnout.
- The result immediately signals Plaid Cymru's realistic shot at power and boosts Rhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru leader, while complicating Labour's budget passage next year.
- Electoral changes matter because a fully proportional system comes in next year, and Reform UK has drawn almost 5 million pounds, with Plaid Cymru and Reform UK now leading challengers.
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The death of Welsh Labour
Is Welsh Labour dead? Plaid Cyrmu won an historic victory in the by-election, trouncing Labour who had been dominant for over 100 years. The “middle child”, as Plaid’s new MS, Lindsay Whittle, describes them, also beat Reform – who pollsters expected to win the seat. In this episode, Harry Clarke-Ezzidio reports from Caerphilly to analyse the results of the election. He speaks to Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap lorworth, Deputy First Minister Huw Irr…
Wales' nationalist Plaid Cymru holds off Reform UK in vote
The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru came out on top in a local Welsh parliament by-election on Thursday, defeating the far-right populist Reform UK party and the defending Labour Party. The election in the constituency of Caerphilly, just outside the Welsh capital Cardiff, had been seen as a bellwether for more general political trends across the United Kingdom, where Reform is currently ahead of Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour Party in…
Labour has fallen into polls after the takeover of the government. Premier Starmer's party now has to put in the next austere slump. In a regional election, its own candidate goes down. And that in a stronghold of the party.
Caerphilly man spells out why Reform didn't win by-election
A local Caerphilly man has spelled out exactly why Reform fell to defeat in the local by-election in the Welsh town this week. Lindsay Whittle was voted Senedd MP for Plaid Cymru after winning 47.4% of the vote, with Reform UK’s Llŷr Powell in second with 36%. Labour had been widely expected to lose the seat, but it was Reform who narrowly led polling in the days and weeks before the election. READ NEXT: Albanian PM delivers scathing summary of …
Plaid Cymru’s staggeringly large victory in Caerphilly is a warning to both Labour and Reform
If any seat has a claim to be part of Labour’s electoral heartland, it is Caerphilly. Labour’s electoral dominance there reaches all the way back to the creation of the constituency in the 1918 UK general election, when Alfred Onions became the the first of many Caerphilly Labour MPs. This pattern has heretofore been replicated in Wales’s devolved elections, where the seat has always returned a Labour member. This gives a sense of the blow dealt…
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