National Assembly for Wales election, 2007

The elections to the National Assembly for Wales in 2007 were the third elections to the newly established in 1999, the National Assembly in Cardiff and were held on 3 May 2007. Were elected 60 deputies, 40 of them in constituencies by relative majority vote and 20 from party lists in five regions. In the elections, Labour could claim as the strongest party, but lost seats and the majority in parliament. Morgan therefore led from 2007 a ​​coalition government with the left - regionalist party Plaid Cymru with its president Ieuan Wyn Jones as the Deputy First Minister ( Deputy First Minister ).

Two days after his 70th birthday in September 2009, Morgan announced that he would retire as of December of the year of his positions in the government and party. To his successor in the party chairmanship competed three country MPs: Huw Lewis, the Welsh Health and Social Affairs Edwina Hart and the Welsh Counsel General Carwyn Jones. The latter sat down on 1 December 2009 in a party vote by and was subsequently elected on 9 December, the new First Minister.

Top candidates

• Labour ( Labour Party ) - Rhodri Morgan
• Plaid Cymru ( Welsh Nationalist Party ) - Ieuan Wyn Jones
• Conservative Party ( Conservative ) - Nicholas Bourne
• Liberal Democrats ( Liberal Democrats ) - Michael German

Distribution of seats

• Labour - 26 seats (-4)
• Plaid Cymru - 15 seats ( 3)
• Conservatives - 12 seats ( 1)
• Liberal Democrats - 6 seats
• Independent candidates - 1 seat