Local Election Results

 So, the results are in.

Plaid Cymru will now be running the Senedd, with Reform in second place.

Locally, Jane Dodds has become the only Lib Dem in Wales to get a seat.  The new voting method meant that each area sends six candidates to the Senedd, and for Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd, the new constituency since the last elections, the six are Jane Dodds for the Lib Dems, 3 members of the Reform party, which got 33% of the vote, and two members of Plaid Cymru.

Labour and the Conservatives got just over 8% of the votes each, so ended up with no-one going into the Senedd here, and the Greens were just behind them with 6.7%.

The turnout  was 53%, which is not bad for local elections.

So Rhun ap Iowerth, the Plaid Cymru leader, will probably become the new First Minister - his party got 43 seats, but there has to be a vote next week to confirm that.

Reform got 34 seats, so are the party of opposition.

Then Labour got 9 (they lost a lot of support), followed by the Welsh Conservatives at 7, the Greens with 2 including Anthony Slaughter, the Welsh Green leader, and finally the Lib Dems with one.

43 seats is not a majority - Plaid Cymru needed six more seats for that - but they do say they will reach out to other parties to form a new Welsh government.