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Cynon Valley


	Labour hold


Name	Party	Votes	%	+/- %
Ann Clwyd	Labour	17,685	65.6	-4.1
Steven Cornelius	Plaid Cymru	4,687	17.4	+6.8
Ian Parry	Liberal Democrat	2,541	9.4	-0.9
Julian Waters	Conservative	2,045	7.6	+0.8

	Majority	12,998	48.2
	Turnout	26,958	55.5	-13.7


Swing
Against 1997 General Election	5.4% from Labour to Plaid Cymru
Lab-Con (against 1997)	2.4% from Labour to Conservative
Against 1999 devolution poll	22.5% from Plaid Cymru to Labour

Description

Cynon Valley (previously Aberdare) has returned Labour candidates to Westminster since 1922 and rivals have in the past made little impact in general elections. In 1997, Ann Clwyd secured nearly 70% of the vote. Second placed Plaid Cymru trailed far behind, with only 10.6%.

Despite this, in the 1999 Welsh Assembly elections Plaid Cymru came within 677 votes of victory. Plaid has also made dramatic advances at local government level, winning 13 out of 21 wards in the constituency.

Cynon Valley is a former mining area and is home to the last deep mine in Wales, worker-owned Tower colliery. Like many south Wales communities of this kind, despite having attracted new industries, it still has relatively high levels of unemployment and social deprivation.

Past Results

1997 General Election


Cynon Valley


	Labour hold


Name	Party	Votes	%
Ann Clwyd	Labour	23,307	69.7
Alun Davies	Plaid Cymru	3,552	10.6
Huw Price	Liberal Democrat	3,459	10.3
Andrew Smith	Conservative	2,260	6.8
Gwyn John	Referendum	844	2.5

	Majority	19,755	59.1
	Turnout	33,422	69.2


1999 Welsh Assembly Election


Cynon Valley


	Labour win


Name	Party	Votes	%
Christine Chapman	Labour	9,883	45.6
Phil Richards	Plaid Cymru	9,206	42.4
Alison Willott	Liberal Democrat	1,531	7.0
Edmund Hayward	Conservative	1,046	4.8

	Majority	677	3.2
	Turnout	21,666	45.8


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