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Article: Voting for a new Britain: Plaid Cymru gains from Labour in key rural ba ttlefield
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 21, 1999
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PLAID CYMRU, the Welsh nationalist party, looks set to profit at
the expense of Labour in the critical Mid and West Wales
battleground, according to an opinion poll last night
Support for the nationalists in the largely rural area, which
covers eight Westminster constituencies, is said to have increased
from 20 per cent at the1997 general election to 31 per cent. Labour
support fell from 38 to 36 per cent, with the Tories' share falling
from 20 to 16 per cent. The Liberal Democrats' share rose from 12 to
15 per cent.
These figures in an NOP poll for HTV refer to voting intentions
for first- past-the-post candidates. When respondents were asked how
they would use their second vote on the ...