Results of the 2021 Senedd election
# Results of the 2021 Senedd election

This is a list of the results of the 2021 Senedd election.

## National results

| Party | Party | Constituency | Constituency | Constituency | Constituency | Constituency | Regional | Regional | Regional | Regional | Regional | Total seats | ± |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Party | Party | Votes | % | ±% | Seats | ± | Votes | % | ±% | Seats | ± | Total 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 | 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 (%) | Regional vote share (%) | Regional vote share (%) | Regional vote share (%) | Regional vote share (%) | Regional vote share (%) | Regional vote share (%) | Regional vote share (%) | Regional vote share (%) | Constituency vote share (%) | Constituency vote share (%) | Constituency vote share (%) | Constituency vote share (%) | Constituency vote share (%) | Constituency vote share (%) | Constituency vote share (%) | Constituency vote share (%) | Constituency vote share (%) |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Region | Turnout | 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 | Did not contest | 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 | Constituency seats | Constituency seats | Constituency seats | Regional seats | Regional seats | Regional seats | Regional seats | Total seats | Total seats | Total seats | Total seats |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Region | 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 | Party | Constituency | Constituency | Constituency | Constituency | Constituency | Regional | Regional | Regional | Regional | Regional | Total seats | ± |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Party | Party | Votes | % | ±% | Seats | ± | Votes | % | ±% | Seats | ± | Total 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 | Total | 238,313 | 100 | | 8 | | 238,148 | 100 | | 4 | | 12 | |

Elected regional members :

| 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 | Party | Constituency | Constituency | Constituency | Constituency | Constituency | Regional | Regional | Regional | Regional | Regional | Total seats | ± |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Party | Party | Votes | % | ±% | Seats | ± | Votes | % | ±% | Seats | ± | Total 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 | Did not contest | Did not contest | Did not contest | 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 | Total | 226,538 | 100 | | 9 | | 226,199 | 100 | | 4 | | 13 | |

Elected members :

| 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 | Party | Constituency | Constituency | Constituency | Constituency | Constituency | Regional | Regional | Regional | Regional | Regional | Total seats | ± |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Party | Party | Votes | % | ±% | Seats | ± | Votes | % | ±% | Seats | ± | Total 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 | Total | | | | | | | | | | | | |

Elected members :

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

Elected members :

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

Elected members :

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

## Results by constituency

Turnout percentages were also published by Wales Online.

| Constituency | Region | 2016 | 2016 | 2021 result | 2021 result | 2021 result | 2021 result | 2021 result | Constituency vote share (%) | Constituency vote share (%) | Constituency vote share (%) | Constituency vote share (%) | Constituency vote share (%) | Constituency vote share (%) | Constituency vote share (%) | Regional vote share (%) | Regional vote share (%) | Regional vote share (%) | Regional vote share (%) | Regional vote share (%) | Regional vote share (%) | Regional vote share (%) |
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| Constituency | Region | Party | Party | Party | 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 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Cardiff North | South Central | | Lab | | Lab | Julie Morgan | 6,593 | 40,655 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Cardiff South and Penarth | South Central | | Lab | | Lab | Vaughan Gething | 10,606 | 36,386 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Cardiff West | South Central | | Lab | | Lab | Mark Drakeford | 11,211 | 36,531 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | Mid and West | | PC | | PC | Adam Price | 6,813 | 33,253 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire | Mid and West | | Con | | Con | Samuel Kurtz | 936 | 31,655 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Ceredigion | Mid and West | | PC | | PC | Elin Jones | 12,145 | 29,485 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Clwyd South | North | | Lab | | Lab | Ken Skates | 2,953 | 24,245 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Clwyd West | North | | Con | | Con | Darren Millar | 3,685 | 28,363 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Cynon Valley | South Central | | Lab | | Lab | Vikki Howells | 7,468 | 20,511 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Delyn | North | | Lab | | Lab | Hannah Blythyn | 3,711 | 26,303 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Dwyfor Meirionnydd | Mid and West | | PC | | PC | Mabon ap Gwynfor | 7,096 | 23,814 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Gower | South West | | Lab | | Lab | Rebecca Evans | 4,795 | 33,164 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Islwyn | South East | | Lab | | Lab | Rhianon Passmore | 5,239 | 24,481 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Llanelli | Mid and West | | Lab | | Lab | Lee Waters | 5,675 | 30,218 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | South East | | Lab | | Lab | Dawn Bowden | 9,311 | 21,154 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Monmouth | South East | | Con | | Con | Peter Fox | 3,845 | 35,883 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Montgomeryshire | Mid and West | | Con | | Con | Russell George | 7,528 | 24,987 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Neath | South East | | Lab | | Lab | Jeremy Miles | 5,221 | 27,578 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Newport East | South East | | Lab | | Lab | John Griffiths | 3,584 | 22,988 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Newport West | South East | | Lab | | Lab | Jayne Bryant | 3,906 | 29,112 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Ogmore | South West | | Lab | | Lab | Huw Irranca-Davies | 8,165 | 24,494 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Pontypridd | South Central | | Lab | | Lab | Mick Antoniw | 5,328 | 27,556 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Preseli Pembrokeshire | Mid and West | | Con | | Con | Paul Davies | 1,400 | 31,516 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Rhondda | South Central | | PC | | Lab | Buffy Williams | 5,497 | 23,458 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Swansea East | South West | | Lab | | Lab | Mike Hedges | 9,700 | 21,098 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Swansea West | South West | | Lab | | Lab | Julie James | 6,521 | 24,162 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Torfaen | South East | | Lab | | Lab | Lynne Neagle | 5,321 | 23,935 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Vale of Clwyd | North | | Lab | | Con | Gareth Davies | 366 | 26,053 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Vale of Glamorgan | South Central | | Lab | | Lab | Jane Hutt | 3,270 | 41,413 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Wrexham | North | | Lab | | Lab | Lesley Griffiths | 1,352 | 22,606 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Ynys Môn | North | | PC | | PC | Rhun ap Iorwerth | 10,206 | 27,734 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 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 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Leanne Wood | Plaid Cymru | Rhondda | Buffy Williams | Labour |
| Nick Ramsay | Independent | Monmouth | Peter Fox | Conservative |
| Gareth Bennett | Independent | South Wales Central | | |
| Michelle Brown | Independent | North Wales | | |
| Neil Hamilton | UKIP | Mid and West Wales | | |
| Caroline Jones | Independent | South Wales West | | |
| Helen Mary Jones | Plaid Cymru | Mid and West Wales | | |
| Mandy Jones | Reform UK | North Wales | | |
| Dai Lloyd | Plaid Cymru | South Wales West | | |
| Neil McEvoy | Propel | South Wales Central | | |
| Mark Reckless | Abolish | South Wales East | | |
| David Rowlands | Reform UK | South Wales East | | |
