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There are a number of political parties registered to the Electoral Commission in Wales. Some of these parties have elected representation in the Senedd (Welsh Parliament; Welsh: Senedd Cymru) and/or in Westminster (UK Parliament) and some have elected representation in one or more of the 22 Welsh local authorities, while others have entirely no elected representation.
The Conservative Party lost all of their 13 MPs in Wales. This is a decrease from forty constituencies, last used in the general election of December 2019 which had resulted in 22 of the Welsh constituencies being represented by Labour MPs, 14 by Conservative MPs, and 4 by Plaid Cymru MPs. [ 1 ]
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Welsh constituencies for the fifty-ninth Parliament of the United Kingdom (2024–present). It includes MPs elected at the 2024 general election, held on 4 July 2024. The number of constituences in Wales reduced from 40 to 32 at this election.
The Conservative Party was the only major political party in Wales to oppose devolution. [30] The Royal Badge of Wales appears on Acts of Senedd Cymru. [31] The election in 2003 produced an assembly in which half of the assembly seats were held by women.
List of MPs for constituencies in Wales (2019–2024) ← 2017–2019 2024– → Colours on map indicate the party allegiance of each constituency's MP on the day of the election This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Welsh constituencies for the fifty-eighth Parliament of the United Kingdom (2019–2024). It includes both MPs ...
Defunct political parties in Wales (11 P) L. Welsh Liberal Democrats (3 C, 4 P) Locally based political parties in Wales (9 P) S. Socialist parties in Wales (3 C, 7 P) W.
The results of the 2017 local elections, showing control party by council (left), and largest party by ward (right). [needs update]There are elections to 22 unitary authorities across Wales every four years, most recently on 5 May 2022.
From 1999 to 2007, the party remained firmly in opposition in Wales, opposed to forming an alliance with other political parties. This changed after the indecisive 2007 election , when the Welsh Conservatives were briefly involved in coalition talks on a "rainbow coalition" with the Welsh Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru , which collapsed ...