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Next Senedd election

Next Senedd election

← 2021 due on or before 7 May 2026

All 60 seats to the Senedd
31 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
 
Leader Vaughan Gething Andrew RT Davies
Party Labour Conservative
Leader since 16 March 2024 24 January 2021
Leader's seat Cardiff South and Penarth South Wales Central
Current seats 30 16
Seats needed Increase1 Increase15

 
Leader Rhun ap Iorwerth Jane Dodds
Party Plaid Cymru Liberal Democrats
Leader since 16 June 2023 3 November 2017
Leader's seat Ynys Môn Mid and West Wales
Current seats 12 1
Seats needed Increase19 Increase30

Incumbent First Minister

Vaughan Gething
Labour



The next Senedd election is due to be held in or before May 2026[1] to elect 60 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. It will also be the second election since the Senedd changed its name in May 2020.

A reform of the voting system is being discussed by the Senedd, with the Welsh Government seeking to implement it for the next election. Electoral reform for the Senedd is being suggested in multiple areas, including increasing the size of the Senedd from 60 to 96 MSs, changing the voting method to a closed list proportional representation system, reducing the number of constituencies to 16 with each electing six MSs, and enforcing gender quotas.

  1. ^ Owens, Cathy (8 September 2021). "What to expect from the next five years in Welsh politics". WalesOnline. Retrieved 29 September 2021.