Excuse the tiredness......
It's 10.38am and we still haven't had the South Wales West regional vote. It's looking tight, and I hope that we can clinch the 2nd regional seat.
Very tired, and annoyed that we had to leave without a clear result today.
Neath was an exceptional result, and is definitely winnable in 2011. Well done Alun Llewelyn, you made Labour very scared. Hain looked much more orange than usual, and was trying to comfort Gwenda when she thought she had lost.
Disappointing about Swansea West, but across the region we don't look too bad. Aberavon at constituency level was heartening in second place, but Gibbons has a huge majority to try and hack in to!!!
No television to find out results until early hours of the morning when the Afan Lido put on the televisions in the gym. Bizarre hour of candidates sitting watching Huw Edwards on the screens...and sleeping on cross trainers and running machines!
BNP walking around in matcho crowds all night, while I tried to avoid catching their attention. Communists got in to a bit of a cerfuffle with them. I couldn't even think of looking at Nick Griffin. Very disconcerting that the BNP have picked up votes, that's for sure.
I am getting ready to go out for today and face the world. Our count is at Port Talbot Civic Hall at 2pm. We will learn there how we have done on the regional list.
All in all, Plaid has done exceptionally well. Not the Labour meltdown that we had hoped for, but room for development for Plaid for 2011. Helen Mary winning Llanelli was an election high for me, and my friend Aileen Campbell getting in on the list for the SNP.
It's 10.38am and we still haven't had the South Wales West regional vote. It's looking tight, and I hope that we can clinch the 2nd regional seat.
Very tired, and annoyed that we had to leave without a clear result today.
Neath was an exceptional result, and is definitely winnable in 2011. Well done Alun Llewelyn, you made Labour very scared. Hain looked much more orange than usual, and was trying to comfort Gwenda when she thought she had lost.
Disappointing about Swansea West, but across the region we don't look too bad. Aberavon at constituency level was heartening in second place, but Gibbons has a huge majority to try and hack in to!!!
No television to find out results until early hours of the morning when the Afan Lido put on the televisions in the gym. Bizarre hour of candidates sitting watching Huw Edwards on the screens...and sleeping on cross trainers and running machines!
BNP walking around in matcho crowds all night, while I tried to avoid catching their attention. Communists got in to a bit of a cerfuffle with them. I couldn't even think of looking at Nick Griffin. Very disconcerting that the BNP have picked up votes, that's for sure.
I am getting ready to go out for today and face the world. Our count is at Port Talbot Civic Hall at 2pm. We will learn there how we have done on the regional list.
All in all, Plaid has done exceptionally well. Not the Labour meltdown that we had hoped for, but room for development for Plaid for 2011. Helen Mary winning Llanelli was an election high for me, and my friend Aileen Campbell getting in on the list for the SNP.
See more pictures on my facebook page of the evening.
7 comments:
I think it's safe to say congratulations. Fingers crossed now for Dai Lloyd.
Yes, Neath...so near, nearer than 1999.
I was gobsmacked about Carms West & South Pembs. I said if posters are anything to go by, clearly they aren't :-(
Well done. Need a researcher? ;-)
To be precise I commandeered the gym on behalf of all civilised candidates so that we could watch TV rather than spend hours sitting in an airless rooms with a bunch of BNP goons. When I find out who told them we were up there...... :-)
Just heard the results. Congratulations Bethan all that hard work has paid off. Good luck for the future.
Congratulations on getting elected and all the best in the new job!
Adam Johannes
Congratulations on getting elected, Bethan - and, equally if not more importantly, on Dai Lloyd keeping his seat as well! I think that three gains was as good as we could have anticipated at the start of the campaign - so well done to everyone in Plaid across Wales!
congratulations on your election as a AM bethan, a good night for plaid, an historic one for the SNP.
not long before its end game for the union!
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