| Election Name: | 2003 National Assembly for Wales election |
| Country: | Wales |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1999 National Assembly for Wales election |
| Previous Year: | 1999 |
| Next Election: | 2007 National Assembly for Wales election |
| Next Year: | 2007 |
| Seats For Election: | All 60 seats to the National Assembly for Wales |
| Majority Seats: | 31 |
| Election Date: | 1 May 2003 |
| 1Blank: | Constituency Vote |
| 2Blank: | % and swing |
| 3Blank: | Regional Vote |
| 4Blank: | % and swing |
| Turnout: | 38.2% 7.8% |
| Leader1: | Rhodri Morgan |
| Party1: | Welsh Labour |
| Leaders Seat1: | Cardiff West |
| Last Election1: | 28 seats |
| Seats1: | 30 |
| Seat Change1: | 2 |
| 1Data1: | 340,515 |
| 2Data1: | 40.0% 2.4% |
| 3Data1: | 310,658 |
| 4Data1: | 36.6% 1.2% |
| Leader2: | Ieuan Wyn Jones |
| Party2: | Plaid Cymru |
| Leaders Seat2: | Ynys Môn |
| Last Election2: | 17 seats |
| Seats2: | 12 |
| Seat Change2: | 5 |
| 1Data2: | 180,185 |
| 2Data2: | 21.2% 7.2% |
| 3Data2: | 167,653 |
| 4Data2: | 19.7% 10.8% |
| Leader3: | Nick Bourne |
| Party3: | Welsh Conservatives |
| Leaders Seat3: | Mid and West Wales |
| Last Election3: | 9 seats |
| Seats3: | 11 |
| Seat Change3: | 2 |
| 1Data3: | 169,832 |
| 2Data3: | 19.9% 4.1% |
| 3Data3: | 162,725 |
| 4Data3: | 19.2% 2.7% |
| Leader4: | Michael German |
| Party4: | Welsh Liberal Democrats |
| Leaders Seat4: | South Wales East |
| Last Election4: | 6 seats |
| Seats4: | 6 |
| 1Data4: | 120,250 |
| 2Data4: | 14.1% 0.6% |
| 3Data4: | 108,013 |
| 4Data4: | 12.7% 0.2% |
| Leader5: | John Marek |
| Party5: | John Marek Independent Party |
| Color5: | fb0d60 |
| Leaders Seat5: | Wrexham |
| Last Election5: | Not established |
| Seats5: | 1 |
| Seat Change5: | New party |
| 1Data5: | 8,749 |
| 2Data5: | 1.0% (N/A) |
| 3Data5: | 11,008 |
| 4Data5: | 1.3% (N/A) |
| First Minister | |
| Posttitle: | First Minister after election |
| Before Election: | Rhodri Morgan |
| Before Party: | Welsh Labour |
| After Election: | Rhodri Morgan |
| After Party: | Welsh Labour |
| Map Size: | 400px |
The 2003 National Assembly for Wales election was the second general election to the National Assembly for Wales. It was held on 1 May 2003. The election was characterised by a resurgence for the Labour Party, whilst Plaid Cymru saw a reduction in support and the number of Assembly Members they returned. Having won thirty seats, one short of a majority, Labour chose to govern in minority without a coalition partner.[1]
This election also saw the returning of John Marek as an independent member of the Assembly. Of the 60 members elected, 30 were male and 30 were female.
It was held on the same day as the 2003 Scottish Parliament election and 2003 United Kingdom local elections.
|-| style="background-color:white" colspan=15 | |-!rowspan=3 colspan=2 | Parties!colspan=10 | Additional member system!rowspan=2 colspan=5 | Total seats|-!colspan=5 |Constituency!colspan=5 |Region|-! Votes !! % !! +/− !! Seats !! +/− ! Votes !! % !! +/− !! Seats !! +/−! Total !! +/− !! %|-
|-| || Total || 851,357 || || || 40 || || 849,552 || || || 20 || || 60 || |||}
|-! colspan=2 |Constituency! Elected member! Result
| Conservative Party | Cymru Annibynnol | Green Party of England and Wales | Labour Party | Liberal Democrats | Mid & West Wales Pensioners | Plaid Cymru | ProLife Alliance | UKIP | Vote No 2 Stop the War | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Nick Bourne | Mick Grail | Dorienne Robinson | Cherry Short | Vera Jenner | Helen Mary Jones | Sara Jeremy | Mrs. Elizabeth F. Phillips | Adrienne Morgan | ||
| 2. | Glyn Davies | Debra Tester | Molly Scott-Cato | Tamsin Dunwoody | Mick Bates | Andrew Jacob | Delyth Richards | Ruth Davies | Iain Sheldon | Nina Minnigan | |
| 3. | Lisa Francis | Timothy Foster | Christine Gwyther | Steffan John | David Senior | Dominica Roberts | Clive Easton | Robin Benson | |||
| 4. | O.J. Williams | Reg Taylor | Catherine Thomas | John Davies | Siôn Jobbins | Thomas Robberts | David Rowlands | Jennifer Keal | |||
| 5. | Paul Davies | Christopher Cato | Anthony Cooper | Ken Harris | Paul Sambrook | David Bellamy | |||||
| 6. | Harri Lloyd Davies | David Rees | Mary Megarry | Siân Thomas | |||||||
| 7. | David Thomas | Rhianon Passmore | |||||||||
| 8. | Gareth Jones | Rina Clarke | |||||||||
| 9. | Eddie Woodward |
|-! colspan=2 |Constituency! Elected member! Result
| Communist Party of Britain | Conservative Party | Cymru Annibynnol | Green Party of England and Wales | John Marek Independent Party | Labour Party | Liberal Democrats | Plaid Cymru | UKIP | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Glyn Davies | Brynle Williams | Owain Williams | Klaus Armstrong-Braun | John Marek | Lesley Griffiths | Eleanor Burnham | Janet Ryder | Elwyn Williams | |
| 2. | David Morgan | Mark Isherwood | Dafydd Ifan | John Walker | Marc Jones | Carl Seargeant | Nick Bennett | Liz Saville | Edwina Theunissen | |
| 3. | Mike Green | Janet Finch-Saunders | Jeremy Hart | Colin Jones | Sandy Mewies | Bobby Feeley | Dyfed Edwards | John Walker | ||
| 4. | Albie Fox | Wilfred Hastings | Karen Sinclair | Graham Rees | Eilian Williams | Francis Wykes | ||||
| 5. | Darren Miller | Gilly Boyd | Wycliffe Barrett | Carole O'Toole | Paul Rowlinson | |||||
| 6. | Jim Killock | Ann Jones | Thomas Rippeth | Richard Coombs | ||||||
| 7. | Peter Rogers | Alun Pugh | ||||||||
| 8. | Matt Wright | Denise Idris Jones | ||||||||
| 9. | Goronwy Edwards | Gerwyn Jones | ||||||||
| 10. | Martin Eaglestone |
|-! colspan=2 |Constituency! Elected member! Result
| Communist Party of Britain | Conservative Party | Cymru Annibynnol | Green Party of England and Wales | Labour Party | Liberal Democrats | New Millennium Bean Party | Plaid Cymru | ProLife Alliance | Socialist Labour Party | UKIP | Vote No 2 Stop the War | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Robert David Griffiths | Jonathan Morgan | Rev. Christopher Davies | John Matthews | Rhodri Morgan | Jenny Randerson | Captain Beany | Leanne Wood | Anne Savoury | Cerian Screen | Peter Gracia | Sura Altikriti | |
| 2. | Fran Rawlings | David Melding | Sophia Flouter | Lynn Farr | Lorraine Barrett | Rob Humphreys | Owen John Thomas | Madeleine Jeremy | Morfudd Marsden | Don Hulston | John Cox | ||
| 3. | Dominic MacAskill | Dianne Rees | William Cross | Jan Tucker | Sikiru Fahm | Rodney Berman | Chris Franks | Josephine Quintaville | Kenneth Evans | Frank Hughes | John Palmer | ||
| 4. | Gwen Griffiths | Jayne Cowan | Raymond Lloyd | Sylvia Latham | Sue Essex | John Dixon | Carole Willis | Anna Wilkins | Helen Walker | David Brown | Alastair Couper | ||
| 5. | Daniel Thomas | Paul Beswick | Jane Davidson | Jacqui Gasson | Eluned Bush | Susan Deare | Phillip Kingston | ||||||
| 6. | Craig Piper | Christine Chapman | Nilmini De Silva | Delme Bowen | George Crabbe | ||||||||
| 7. | Paul Williams | Jane Hutt | |||||||||||
| 8. | Heather Douglas | Leighton Andrews | |||||||||||
| 9. | Geoff Mungham |
|-! colspan=2 |Constituency! Elected member! Result
| British National Party | Conservative Party | Cymru Annibynnol | Green Party of England and Wales | Labour Party | Liberal Democrats | Plaid Cymru | ProLife Alliance | Socialist Labour Party | UKIP | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Pauline Gregory | David Thomas Charles Davies | Catherine Lloyd | Peter Varley | Peter Law | Michael James German | Jocelyn Davies | Joseph Anthony Biddulph | Arthur Scargill | David J Rowlands | |
| 2. | William Graham | Gareth Roberts | Anne Were | Neil McEvoy | Ed Townsend | Lindsay Whittle | Norman Plaisted | Paul Adam | Neal Reynolds | ||
| 3. | Laura Anne Jones | Susan Price | Owen Clarke | John Griffiths | Alison Willott | Mohammed Asghar | Fiona Pinto | Hayley O'Rourke | Roger Thomas | ||
| 4. | Nick Ramsay | Andrew Broad | Ernest Hamer | Lynne Neagle | Philip Hobson | Gill Jones | Thomas Flynn | Robert Morris | Hugh Moelwyn Hughes | ||
| 5. | John Prosser | Geraldine Layton | Rosemary Butler | Rob Roffe | Joanne Daniels | Mary Millington | |||||
| 6. | Barrie O'Keefe | Teresa Telfer | Huw Lewis | Huw Price | Aneurin Preece | Reehana Sayeed | |||||
| 7. | Terri-Anne Matthews | Matt Wootton | Jeff Cuthbert | ||||||||
| 8. | Matthew Evans | Siân James |
|-! colspan=2 |Constituency! Elected member! Result
| Conservative Party | Cymru Annibynnol | Green Party of England and Wales | Labour Party | Liberal Democrats | Plaid Cymru | ProLife Alliance | Socialist Labour Party | UKIP | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Alun Cairns | Rev. Christopher Davies | Martyn Shrewsbury | Brian Gibbons | Peter Black | Janet Davies | Gerardo Brienza | Christopher Herriott | Richard Lewis | |
| 2. | Gerald Rowbottom | Gwendolen MacKay | Jan Cliff | Janice Gregory | Cheryl Green | Dai Lloyd | Sean Haran | Liz Screen | Alan Robinson | |
| 3. | Chris Smart | Pedr Lewis | Rhodri Griffiths | Val Lloyd | Mike Day | Alun Llewelyn | Gillian Duval | Peter Greenslade | Tim Jenkins | |
| 4. | Myr Boult | Stephen Curry | Steve Clegg | Parvaiz Ali | Nick Tregoning | Siân Caiach | Karolina Stolarska | Gary Davies | David Evans | |
| 5. | Peter Morris | Deborah James | Carwyn Jones | Jackie Radford | Richard Williams | |||||
| 6. | Richard Hill | Tony Young | Eirian Arwyn | |||||||
| 7. | Stephen James | Gwenda Thomas | ||||||||
| 8. | Andrew Thomas |