The DA also won control of the Western Cape provincial assembly due largely to public satisfaction with the performance of its leader, Helen Zille, as mayor of Cape Town, the country's second largest city.

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But students at Welsh universities may escape once the assembly takes control of student funding.

BBC: The assembly could scrap fees from 2006

The proportion of people who want the Welsh assembly to control all taxes rose slightly from 28% to 30%.

BBC: Cymru Wales poll: Stable support for more devolution

Republicans took control of the Virginia Assembly (giving them control over both houses of the Legislature), won a special election in a GOP open seat in the Washington State House (to return the body to deadlock), and won the Erie County (New York) executive's race.

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