National Assembly For Wales
In UK parliamentary elections, the BNP has only contested Welsh seats in Carmarthen (1983), Cardiff North (1992), Newport West (2001), Swansea East (2005) and Wrexham (2005).
In the 2010 General election, it stood 19 candidates in Wales and won its deposit in Swansea East, the first time ever in a Westminster constituency in Wales.
In the National Assembly for Wales election, 2003, the BNP only stood one candidate, Pauline Gregory, in the South Wales East region, who obtained 3,210 votes (1.89%) (less than 0.01% of the total).
In the National Assembly for Wales election, 2007, it stood 20 candidates with all 4 for each region, they finished 6th nationwide with 42,197 votes (4.3%). The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru came second to the Labour Party. The Liberal Democrats came fourth having achieved 2.5 times the vote of the BNP and earning six seats. The BNP was the only minor party to save its deposits in the electoral regions with one in the North Wales region and the other in the South Wales West region.
In the National Assembly for Wales election, 2011, the BNP stood 27 candidates - 7 for the constituencies and 20 for the additional regions in which there would be 4 candidates for each of the 5 regions. 2 candidates for Swansea East and Islwyn saved their deposits for the first time ever in a Welsh Assembly constituency. Despite its hope to win an Assembly seat, the nationwide vote for the party in the regions fell by 1.9% from 4.3% which it gained in the 2007 Assembly elections to 2.6% losing all regional deposits and being beaten by the Greens, the UK Independence Party and even the Socialist Labour Party.
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