Plaid Cymru by-election winner sworn in at Welsh Parliament
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Lindsay Whittle stood for election in Caerphilly 13 times since 1983 - and on the 14th attempt, he finally succeeded.In the process, the 72-year-old local boy - nicknamed "Mr Caerphilly" - humiliated the Labour Party,
Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has suffered a local byelection defeat in a traditional Welsh stronghold, losing Caerphilly for the first time in any election in a century to the nationalist party Plaid Cymru.
Result marks historic shift in Welsh politics, ending century of Labour dominance in one of its traditional heartlands - Anadolu Ajansı
The governing party placed a distant third in a special election for a district of Wales it has dominated for a century. Plaid Cymru, a center-left Welsh nationalist party, won.
SIR Keir Starmer suffered another major blow today as Plaid Cymru swept to victory in an historic Welsh by-election. Lindsay Whittle won the crucial Caerphilly Senedd seat off Labour in a huge