All 60 seats to the Senedd 31 seats needed for a majority
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Vaughan Gething
Andrew RT Davies
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16 March 2024
24 January 2021
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30
16
Seats needed
1
15
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Rhun ap Iorwerth
Jane Dodds
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3 November 2017
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Ynys Môn
Mid and West Wales
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12
1
Seats needed
19
30
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Vaughan Gething
Labour
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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.
^Owens, Cathy (8 September 2021). "What to expect from the next five years in Welsh politics". WalesOnline. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
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