Results of the 2021 Senedd election

This is a list of the results of the 2021 Senedd election. ^[1]

National results

Party		Constituency					Regional					Total seats	±
		Votes	%	±%	Seats	±	Votes	%	±%	Seats	±
	Labour	443,047	39.9	5.2	27	0	401,770	36.2	4.7	3	1	30	1
	Conservative	289,802	26.1	5.0	8	2	278,560	25.1	6.3	8	3	16	5
	Plaid Cymru	225,376	20.3	0.2	5	1	230,161	20.7	0.1	8	2	13	1
	Liberal Democrats	54,202	4.9	2.8	0	1	48,217	4.3	2.2	1	1	1	0
	Green	17,817	1.6	0.7	0	0	48,714	4.4	1.4	0	0	0	0
	Abolish	18,149	1.6	N/A	0	0	41,399	3.7	0.7	0	0	0	0
	UKIP	8,586	0.8	11.7	0	0	17,341	1.6	11.4	0	0	0	7
	Reform UK	17,405	1.6	New	0	New	11,730	1.1	New	0	New	0	New
	Propel	8,864	0.8	New	0	New	9,825	0.9	New	0	New	0	New
	Gwlad	2,829	0.3	New	0	New	6,776	0.6	New	0	New	0	New
	Freedom Alliance	3,148	0.3	New	0	New	3,638	0.3	New	0	New	0	New
	Communist						2,837	0.3	0.3	0	0	0	0
	No More Lockdowns	223	0.0	New	0	New	2,794	0.3	New	0	New	0	New
	TUSC						1,647	0.1	0.1	0	0	0	0
	Christian						1,366	0.1	0.1	0	0	0	0
	Workers						411	0.0	New	0	New	0	New
	Llais Gwynedd	1,136	0.1	0.1	0	0						0	0
	Socialist	82	0.0	0	0	0						0	0
	Independents	21,064	1.9	0.8	0	0	3,709	0.3	0.1	0	0	0	0
Total		1,111,730	100.00		40		1,110,895	100.00		20		60

Results by region

Summary

Vote share by region

Region	Turnout	Regional vote share (%)									Constituency vote share (%)
		Lab	Con	PC	LD	AWA	Grn	Ref	UKIP	Other	Lab	Con	PC	LD	AWA	Grn	Ref	UKIP	Other
Mid and West Wales		25.9	26.8	27.5	6.8	3.4	4.4	1.1	1.6	2.5	25	29	30	9		1		1	5
North Wales		32.3	29.9	23.9	3.2	3.5	2.9	1.0	1.6	1.7	35	32	25	4	Did not contest			1	3
South Wales Central		40.1	22.1	18.2	4.6	3.3	5.7	0.9	1.2	3.9
South Wales East		41.4	25.2	14.7	3.4	4.8	4.8	2.0	1.3	2.4
South Wales West		42.9	20.9	18.5	3.3	3.8	3.9	1.0	1.5	4.2
Total

Seats by region

Region	Constituency seats				Regional seats				Total seats
	Lab	Con	PC	LD	Lab	Con	PC	LD	Lab	Con	PC	LD
Mid and West Wales	1
North Wales
South Wales Central
South Wales East
South Wales West
Total

Mid and West Wales

Results

Party		Constituency [2]					Regional [3]					Total seats	±
		Votes	%	±%	Seats	±	Votes	%	±%	Seats	±
	Plaid Cymru	71,262	30	+3.0	3		65,450	27.5	+1.2	1		4
	Conservative	70,182	29	+6.3	4		63,827	26.8	+6.2	0		4
	Labour	59,180	25	+7.2	1		61,733	25.9	+6.5	2		3
	Liberal Democrats	21,028	9	-7.8	0		16,181	6.8	-4.1	1		1
	Green	2,912	1	-1.9	0		10,545	4.4	+0.6	0		0
	UKIP	1,704	1	-10.1	0		3,731	1.6	-10.0	0		0
	Other parties	12,045	5	+3.2	0		16,681	7.0	-0.3	0		0
Total		238,313	100		8		238,148	100		4		12

Elected regional members ^[4]

Seat	Party		MS
1		Plaid Cymru	Cefin Campbell
2		Labour	Eluned Morgan
3		Labour	Joyce Watson
4		Liberal Democrats	Jane Dodds

North Wales

Results

Party		Constituency [2]					Regional [3]					Total seats	±
		Votes	%	±%	Seats	±	Votes	%	±%	Seats	±
	Labour	79,327	35	+2.5	4		73,120	32.3	+4.2	1		5
	Conservative	71,957	32	+5.7	3		67,544	29.9	+7.6	2		5
	Plaid Cymru	57,235	25	+0.8	2		53,950	23.9	+0.5	1		3
	Liberal Democrats	8,027	4	-1.0	0		7,160	3.2	-1.4	0		0
	Green	Did not contest					6,586	2.9	+0.6	0		0
	UKIP	3,180	1	-9.3	0		3,573	1.6	-10.9	0		0
	Other parties	6,812	3	+2.9	0		14,266	6.3	-0.6	0		0
Total		226,538	100		9		226,199	100		4		13

Elected members ^[5]

Seat	Party		MS
1		Labour	Carolyn Thomas
2		Conservative	Mark Isherwood
3		Conservative	Sam Rowlands
4		Plaid Cymru	Llyr Gruffydd

South Wales Central

Results

Party		Constituency					Regional					Total seats	±
		Votes	%	±%	Seats	±	Votes	%	±%	Seats	±
	Labour						102,611
	Conservative						56,662
	Plaid Cymru						46,478
	Green						14,478
	Liberal Democrats						11,821
	Abolish the Welsh Assembly						8,396
	UKIP						3,127
	Reform UK						2,244
	Other parties
Total

Elected members ^[6]

Seat	Party		MS
1		Conservative	Andrew RT Davies
2		Plaid Cymru	Rhys ab Owen
3		Conservative	Joel James
4		Plaid Cymru	Heledd Fychan

South Wales East

Results

Party		Constituency					Regional					Total seats	±
		Votes	%	±%	Seats	±	Votes	%	±%	Seats	±
	Labour
	Conservative
	Plaid Cymru
	Abolish the Welsh Assembly
	Liberal Democrats
	Green
	Reform UK
	UKIP
Total

Elected members ^[7]

Seat	Party		MS
1		Plaid Cymru	Delyth Jewell
2		Plaid Cymru	Laura Anne Jones
3		Conservative	Natasha Asghar
4		Plaid Cymru	Peredur Owen Griffiths

South Wales West

Results

Party		Constituency					Regional					Total seats	±
		Votes	%	±%	Seats	±	Votes	%	±%	Seats	±
	Labour
	Plaid Cymru
	Conservative
	Liberal Democrats
	Abolish the Welsh Assembly
	Green
	Reform UK
	UKIP
Total

Elected members ^[8]

Seat	Party		MS
1		Thomas Giffard
2		Sioned Williams
3		Altaf Hussain
4		Luke Fletcher

Results by constituency

Turnout percentages were also published by Wales Online. ^[9]

Constituency	Region	2016		2021 result					Constituency vote share (%)							Regional vote share (%)
		Party				MS	Maj.	Turnout	Lab	Con	PC	LD	Grn	AWA	Oth.	Lab	Con	PC	LD	Grn	AWA	Oth.
Aberavon	South West		Lab		Lab	David Rees	5,745	22,688	47.4	13.3	21.5	4.3	–	2.9	10.6	45.38	14.14	22.45	3.02	2.97	3.55	8.49
Aberconwy	North		Con		Con	Janet Finch-Saunders	3,336	23,543	25.4	41.7	27.5	3.1	–	–	2.3	27.5	33.8	25.3	2.9	3.4	3.2	3.9
Alyn and Deeside	North		Lab		Lab	Jack Sargeant	4,378	25,843	48.8	31.9	7.3	6.1	–	–	5.9	41.2	32.0	8.7	5.1	3.0	4.5	5.5
Arfon	North		PC		PC	Siân Gwenllian	8,652	21,478	23.5	8.3	63.3	3.0	–	–	2.0	24.5	9.0	55.7	2.1	4.0	1.9	2.8
Blaenau Gwent	South East		Lab		Lab	Alun Davies	6,638	20,817	49.1	12.5	17.2	1.6	–	6.6	13.0	48.2	18.6	14.0	2.0	3.2	7.0	7.0
Brecon and Radnorshire	Mid and West		LD		Con	James Evans	3,820	32,115	15.5	39.7	6.5	27.8	4.8	3.8	6.7	14.87	36.61	8.71	21.27	5.7	5.65	2.39
Bridgend	South West		Lab		Lab	Sarah Murphy	4,064	29,461	42.0	28.3	10.5	2.7	–	–	16.5
Caerphilly	South East		Lab		Lab	Hefin David	5,078	28,914	46.0	17.3	28.4	2.7	–	3.9	1.7
Cardiff Central	South Central		Lab		Lab	Jenny Rathbone	7,640	28,532	45.9	13.3	12.2	19.1	5.4
Cardiff North	South Central		Lab		Lab	Julie Morgan	6,593	40,655	47.6	31.4	8.1	4.0	4.8
Cardiff South and Penarth	South Central		Lab		Lab	Vaughan Gething	10,606	36,386	49.9	20.7	13.6	3.9	4.5
Cardiff West	South Central		Lab		Lab	Mark Drakeford	11,211	36,531	48.4	17.7	16.1	2.2	3.5
Carmarthen East and Dinefwr	Mid and West		PC		PC	Adam Price	6,813	33,253	25.4	23.3	45.9	2.9	0.0
Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire	Mid and West		Con		Con	Samuel Kurtz	936	31,655	32.6	35.5	20.9	3.9	0.0
Ceredigion	Mid and West		PC		PC	Elin Jones	12,145	29,485	10.9	15.6	55.1	10.5	4.4
Clwyd South	North		Lab		Lab	Ken Skates	2,953	24,245	43.2	31.1	16.9	3.0	0.0
Clwyd West	North		Con		Con	Darren Millar	3,685	28,363	28.7	41.7	19.8	4.1	0.0
Cynon Valley	South Central		Lab		Lab	Vikki Howells	7,468	20,511	55.7	13.6	19.3	1.6	0.0
Delyn	North		Lab		Lab	Hannah Blythyn	3,711	26,303	48.6	34.5	7.9	4.1	0.0
Dwyfor Meirionnydd	Mid and West		PC		PC	Mabon ap Gwynfor	7,096	23,814	15.5	18.5	48.2	3.8	0.0
Gower	South West		Lab		Lab	Rebecca Evans	4,795	33,164	47.1	32.7	11.9	2.6	3.3
Islwyn	South East		Lab		Lab	Rhianon Passmore	5,239	24,481	40.7	15.9	16.1	1.9	0.0
Llanelli	Mid and West		Lab		Lab	Lee Waters	5,675	30,218	46.1	16.4	27.3	2.0	0.0
Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney	South East		Lab		Lab	Dawn Bowden	9,311	21,154	61.5	12.6	17.5	2.0	0.0
Monmouth	South East		Con		Con	Peter Fox	3,845	35,883	32.0	42.7	5.8	5.3	5.6
Montgomeryshire	Mid and West		Con		Con	Russell George	7,528	24,987	14.3	48.1	17.9	16.8	0.0
Neath	South East		Lab		Lab	Jeremy Miles	5,221	27,578	42.3	14.9	23.4	1.4	3.8
Newport East	South East		Lab		Lab	John Griffiths	3,584	22,988	47.1	31.6	8.0	6.8	0.0
Newport West	South East		Lab		Lab	Jayne Bryant	3,906	29,112	48.2	35.0	7.0	3.0	4.4
Ogmore	South West		Lab		Lab	Huw Irranca-Davies	8,165	24,494	52.5	18.7	19.2	1.8	0.0
Pontypridd	South Central		Lab		Lab	Mick Antoniw	5,328	27,556	41.8	20.5	22.4	2.3	2.4
Preseli Pembrokeshire	Mid and West		Con		Con	Paul Davies	1,400	31,516	34.6	39.0	19.5	3.0	0.0
Rhondda	South Central		PC		Lab	Buffy Williams	5,497	23,458	54.7	6.4	31.3	0.9	0.0
Swansea East	South West		Lab		Lab	Mike Hedges	9,700	21,098	60.1	13.7	15.1	4.9	0.0
Swansea West	South West		Lab		Lab	Julie James	6,521	24,162	46.4	19.2	16.3	6.9	4.6
Torfaen	South East		Lab		Lab	Lynne Neagle	5,321	23,935	48.3	26.1	10.7	4.9	0.0
Vale of Clwyd	North		Lab		Con	Gareth Davies	366	26,053	40.0	41.4	11.4	3.0	0.0
Vale of Glamorgan	South Central		Lab		Lab	Jane Hutt	3,270	41,413	43.5	35.9	8.6	2.3	2.9
Wrexham	North		Lab		Lab	Lesley Griffiths	1,352	22,606	37.4	31.4	21.4	3.3	0.0
Ynys Môn	North		PC		PC	Rhun ap Iorwerth	10,206	27,734	19.1	20.5	55.9	2.0	0.0
Total								1,118,084

New members

20 of the members elected to the Senedd in the election were not members of the previous Senedd.

Constituency

• James Evans, Conservatives, Brecon and Radnorshire
• Sarah Murphy, Labour, Bridgend
• Samuel Kurtz, Conservatives, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
• Mabon ap Gwynfor, Plaid Cymru, Dwyfor Meirionnydd
• Peter Fox, Conservatives, Monmouth
• Buffy Williams, Labour, Rhondda
• Gareth Davies, Conservatives, Vale of Clwyd

Regional

• Cefin Campbell, Plaid Cymru, Mid and West Wales
• Jane Dodds, Liberal Democrats, Mid and West Wales
• Carolyn Thomas, Labour, North Wales
• Sam Rowlands, Conservatives, North Wales
• Rhys ab Owen, Plaid Cymru, South Wales Central
• Heledd Fychan, Plaid Cymru, South Wales Central
• Joel James, Conservatives, South Wales Central
• Peredur Owen Griffiths, Plaid Cymru, South Wales East
• Natasha Asghar, Conservatives, South Wales East
• Sioned Williams, Plaid Cymru, South Wales West
• Luke Fletcher, Plaid Cymru, South Wales West
• Tom Giffard, Conservatives, South Wales West
• Altaf Hussain, Conservatives, South Wales West

Incumbents defeated

Defeated MLA	Party		Constituency/region	New MLA	Party		Ref.
Leanne Wood		Plaid Cymru	Rhondda	Buffy Williams		Labour	[10]
Nick Ramsay		Independent [a]	Monmouth	Peter Fox		Conservative	[11]
Gareth Bennett		Independent [b]	South Wales Central
Michelle Brown		Independent [b]	North Wales
Neil Hamilton		UKIP	Mid and West Wales
Caroline Jones		Independent [b]	South Wales West
Helen Mary Jones		Plaid Cymru	Mid and West Wales
Mandy Jones		Reform UK [b]	North Wales
Dai Lloyd		Plaid Cymru	South Wales West
Neil McEvoy		Propel [c]	South Wales Central
Mark Reckless		Abolish [b]	South Wales East
David Rowlands		Reform UK [b]	South Wales East

Notes

1. Originally elected for the Conservatives
2. Originally elected for UKIP
3. Originally elected for Plaid Cymru

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