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Welsh constituencies used in the election, labelled. The Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, as amended by the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020, mandated the number of seats in Wales be reduced from 40 to 32 to more accurately reflect its share of registered voters, including one coterminous with the Isle of Anglesey.
The next Senedd election is due to be held by 7 May 2026 [1] to elect 96 members to the Senedd (Welsh Parliament; Welsh: Senedd Cymru). It will be the seventh devolved general election since the Senedd (formerly the National Assembly for Wales) was established in 1999.
The 2024 Welsh Conservatives leadership election was triggered by the resignation of Andrew RT Davies on 3 December 2024. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Darren Millar was the only candidate who stepped forward for the leadership.
A Welsh Labour spokesperson said: “A new face, but the same old Conservative Party in Wales. “Voters have already rejected Darren Millar and his colleagues at the general election.
Following Mark Drakeford's resignation as First Minister of Wales and Leader of Welsh Labour, Vaughan Gething was elected to succeed him in the February–March 2024 Welsh Labour leadership election. Gething was officially nominated as First Minister by the Senedd on 20 March 2024, [2] [3] and announced his cabinet the following day.
March 14, 2024 at 9:52 AM. ... the current minister for education and Welsh language, and Vaughan Gething, the minister for the economy, are competing to see who will lead Welsh Labour, and the ...
There are elections to 22 unitary authorities across Wales every four years, most recently on 5 May 2022. The electoral system used is first-past-the-post. The largest unitary authorities in Wales are Cardiff, Newport and Swansea councils, which all lie in the southern coastal belt. The next Welsh local elections are scheduled for 2027
The Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Act 2024 (asc 5) is an Act of Senedd Cymru that was introduced in October 2023 and received royal assent on 9 September 2024. The Act introduced numerous electoral reforms to Wales, including: legislating for automatic voter registration, reforming the Local Democracy and Boundary Commission for Wales,