Plaid Cymru has won 43 seats in Wales's Senedd election, putting the Welsh nationalists in a comfortable position to form a minority government and ending more than 100 years of Labour hegemony. All constituencies have now declared.
Reform UK came second with 34 seats, up from 1% of the vote share in 2021's election. Labour, for so long Wales's political behemoth, limped into third place with just nine seats in the 96-seat parliament. Welsh Labour leader and First Minister Eluned Morgan lost her seat in the election.
Polls had consistently suggested Plaid Cymru and Reform UK were neck and neck in the race to become the biggest party under Wales's new more proportional voting system. However, the contest was not as close as predicted, similar to last year's Caerphilly Senedd byelection.
Labour's historic defeat in Wales comes as the party also lost over 1,000 councillors in England. Keir Starmer faces pressure from some of his MPs to step down, though he stated he intends to see through his five-year term as prime minister.
