This has been an unusual summer, to say the least, in Welsh politics. For a period there were simultaneous leadership elections running for all four parties in the Welsh Assembly. But today’s declaration in the Plaid Cymru leadership race means that all the opposition parties in Wales are now under new management. We only await the result of Welsh Labour’s leadership race – although that will also decide the small matter of who is the new First Minister.
The Plaid Cymru race saw a clear win for Adam Price, the Assembly Member (and former MP) for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr. He received 2,863 first preference votes; Ynys Môn AM Rhun Ap Iorwerth got 1,613; while incumbent leader Leanne Wood was humiliatingly in last place, with only 1,286 first preferences. After Wood’s votes were re-allocated, Price won by 3,481 votes to 1,961.
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