Ceredigion by-election, 2000

Ceredigion by-election, 2000

The Plaid Cymru Member of Parliament for Ceredigion, Cynog Dafis, was unexpectedly elected to the National Assembly for Wales in May 1999 and decided to give up his seat in the House of Commons in order to concentrate on his work in the Assembly. By accepting the office of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead on January 10, 2000, he formally vacated his seat.

Plaid Cymru selected Simon Thomas, who had been their Director of Policy and responsible for writing their manifestos for the 1997 general election and 1999 Assembly election. Labour, who had come second in the previous general election, chose a local social worker, Maria Battle.

The election campaign was dominated by the issue of European Objective 1 funding. The constituency was part of the area of Wales that was granted Objective One status in 1999, but under European rules the funding had to be matched by a minimum of 25% from other sources, including private funding and resources from central and local government. Plaid Cymru, Conservative and Liberal Democrat politicians demanded this funding be made available solely from central government in addition to the block grant already paid to the Welsh Assembly by the UK Treasury, and the Chief Reporter for Wales on Sunday newspaper Martin Shipton stood as a single issue candidate demanding 'Match Funding now'. The Labour administration in the Welsh Assembly insisted that such a demand misrepresented the resourcing of Objective 1 programmes.

Polling day in the by-election was February 3. Plaid Cymru retained the seat comfortably, with the Liberal Democrats taking second in a seat they had previously held from 1974 until 1992 - and would win again in 2005.

Results

Ceredigion by-election, 2000
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Plaid Cymru Simon Thomas 10,716 42.8 +1.1
Liberal Democrat Mark Fraser Williams 5,768 23.0 +6.5
Conservative Paul Davies 4,138 16.5 +1.6
Labour Maria Battle 3,612 14.4 -9.9
UKIP John Bufton 487 1.9 N/A
Independent Green John Davies 289 1.2 N/A
Independent Martin Shipton 55 0.2 N/A
Majority
Turnout 46.0
Plaid Cymru hold Swing

General Election result, 1997

General Election 1997: Ceredigion
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Plaid Cymru Cynog Dafis 16,728 41.62 +10.67
Labour Robert (Hag) Harris 9,767 24.30 +5.73
Liberal Democrat Dai Davies 6,616 16.46 -10.03
Conservative Dr. Felix Aubel 5,983 14.88 -9.08
Referendum Party John Leaney 1,092 2.71 +2.71
Majority 6,961 17.32 +4.94
Turnout 40,186 73.90 -4.05
Plaid Cymru hold Swing 2.47

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