Plaid have nothing to Môn about.

One of the things that may emerge from yesterdays result is Ukip may well be seen as purely an English party from now on.

They mat have made impressive gains in the Elections over the Border but in the election held ion The Island of Anglesey council they barely surfaced.

Election results by party

Party name	Seats won	% of votes
Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales	12	32%
Annibynnol / Independent	9	20%
Welsh Labour / Llafur Cymru	3	17%
Independent	2	5%
Welsh Liberal Democrats / Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru	1	5%
Independent / Annibynnol	1	3%
Annibynnol	1	2%
	1	1%
UK Independence Party / Plaid Annibyniaeth y DU	0	7%
Welsh Conservative Party Candidate/Ymgeisydd Plaid Geidwadol Cymru	0	6%
Turnout:		51%

The result could be that the three Labour Members become power brokers but the alternative to becoming coalition partners with Plaid would mean al the 14 Independents would have to come together and since it has been them who have been fighting like Kilkenny Cats over the last number of years it seems to be unlikely unless there's a stop Plaid move. 

The problems on the council had led to led to the boundaries redrawn and the number of councillors  reduced to 30 .

Previously   there had been 40 distributed with consideration of the vagaries of Independent affiliations thus.

Group affiliation[6]		Members
	Original Independent	14
	Plaid Cymru	8
	Labour	5
	Llais i Fôn	5
	Unaffiliated	8
Total		40

 I don't know what the current crop of Independents  stand . But it does look like Plaid who made a remarkable 4 gains despite the reduction of 10 seats will lead the council.

You can forgive the London media when they are drooling over Ukips surge but the Welsh media should be pointing out this was a very good result for Plaid.and their Leader who had used the Menai bridge as a backdrop for her last political broadcast.

Not so good was the byelection  on Caerphilly Council where Plaid failed to exploit the recent troubles of the ruling Labour party

CAERPHILY BOUROUGH COUNCIL: RISCA EAST.

Candidate	Party	Votes
Cliff EDWARDS	Independent	209
Matthew FARRELL	Plaid Cymru – The Party of Wales	119
Philippa LEONARD	Welsh Labour/Llafur Cymru	529 - ELECTED
Cameron MUIR-JONES	Welsh Conservative Party Candidate Ymgeisydd Plaid Geidwadol Cymru	36
Bob OWEN	Independent	299

It was also Labour who  swept home in Bridgend despite Peter Black heavily involved in the Liberal Democrats

BRIDGEND COUNTY BOROUGH COUNCIL\; LLANGEWYDD & BRYNHYFRYD ELECTORAL DIVISION

NAMES OF CANDIDATES ENWAU’R YMGEISWYR		Number of votes recorded Pleidleisiau a fwriwyd (Elected: (E) ) (Etholwyd: (E) )
NAME / ENW Description / Disgrifiad
BERROW Tony	Welsh Liberal Democrat		143
DAVIES Siân	Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales		34
HUGHES Eric	Independent		66
LEWIS Clare Joyce	Welsh Conservative Party Candidate		44
SMITH Charles Emrys	Welsh Labour/Llafur Cymru	E	281

So Plaid make a significant  move forward on Anglesey but Labour seemed dominant.in the South. .

Though the two by-elections were not in Wards where Plaid had much success and we may have to wait for a by-election in a marginal ward to see the true position.