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Article: Plaid Cymru hold key

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May 7, 1999
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LABOUR may be forced into coalition to run the Welsh Assembly after a spectacular surge in Plaid Cymru support.

The nationalists sensationally captured seats in Labour's traditional South Wales Valleys heartland to cause a big upset.

Plaid Cymru snatched the Rhondda, defeating Wales Euro MP Wayne David, who had been tipped as a potential Welsh Labour leader if Alun Michael fails to win Mid and West Wales later today. Even Mr Michael's position looked increasingly precarious because of the huge shift in voting patterns. Islwyn, the area once represented in Parliament by former Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock, also fell to the Welsh nationalists. Dismayed Labour was set to badly miss its ...

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