2001 United Kingdom general election in Wales

2001 United Kingdom general election in Wales
7 June 2001
All 40 Welsh seats to the House of Commons
  First party Second party
 
Leader Tony Blair Ieuan Wyn Jones
Party Labour Plaid Cymru
Leader since 21 July 1994 3 August 2000
Last election 34 seats, 54.7% 4 seats, 10.0%
Seats won 34 4
Seat change
Popular vote 666,956 195,893
Percentage 48.6% 14.3%
Swing 6.2% 4.3%
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Charles Kennedy William Hague
Party Liberal Democrats Conservative
Leader since 9 August 1999 19 June 1997
Last election 2 seats, 12.4% 0 seats, 19.6%
Seats won 2 0
Seat change
Popular vote 189,254 288,623
Percentage 13.8% 21.0%
Swing 1.5% 1.4%
Main article: 2001 United Kingdom general election

These are the results of the 2001 United Kingdom general election in Wales. The election was held on 7 June 2001 and all 40 seats in Wales were contested. The overall result remained exactly the same as in the previous election in 1997, with only two changes - Labour gained Ynys Môn from Plaid Cymru and Plaid gained Carmarthen East and Dinefwr from Labour. The Conservatives, despite taking the second largest number of votes in Wales, once again won no seats; this was only the second election since 1918 to leave them with no representation in Wales.

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