The 2011

Welsh Conservatives The Welsh Conservatives (), also known as the Welsh Conservative Party (), is the branch of the United Kingdom Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party that operates in Wales. At United Kingdom general elections, Westminster elections, it is ...

leadership election was held on 14 July 2011.

Andrew RT Davies Andrew Robert Tudor Davies CBE (born 1968) is a Welsh politician who has served as Member of the Senedd for the South Wales Central region since 2007. He has previously served as Leader of the Welsh Conservative Senedd Group from 2011 to 2 ...

defeated

Nick Ramsay Nick Ramsay (born 10 June 1975) is a British politician who served as the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Monmouth (Senedd constituency), Monmouth from 2007 to 2021. Originally a member of the Welsh Conservatives, he served as Shadow Minister of F ...

, the only other candidate. Following the 2011 Assembly election the party's leader

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lost his

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seat.

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then became the interim leader whilst an election took place. The contest then consisted of Andrew RT Davies (

South Wales Central South Wales Central () is an electoral region of the Senedd, consisting of eight constituencies. The region elects 12 members, eight directly elected constituency members and four additional members. The electoral region was first used in 1999, ...

) against Ramsay (

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). Andrew RT Davies won with some 53.1 per cent of the vote on a 49 per cent turnout of the party's Welsh membership.

Candidates

Result

The conservative Party did not release the raw vote figures only the percentages won. Andrew RT Davies was declared the result and thus became the Leader of the Opposition in the

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References

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