Senedd Election 2026

[JamesWales]

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Plaid have almost certainly won. I should have put money on it!

[City123]

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Reform have thrown a hell of a lot at this, a lot of their big names have been out in Caerphilly including Farage out there today. They'll be very disappointed

Not even close!

PC: 47.4% (+19.0)
REF: 36.0% (+34.2)
LAB: 11.0% (-34.9)
CON: 2.0% (-15.3)
GRN: 1.5% (+1.5)
LDEM: 1.5% (-1.2)
GWL: 0.3% (+0.3)
UKIP: 0.2% (+0.2)

[Wozza16]

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Huge result for Plaid and well deserved. Wales is a left leaning country despite the English media pushing right wing agendas.

Welsh people should vote for a Welsh party who's sole focus is on Wales and not a Welsh badged English party who do whatever their bosses 200 miles down the road in another country tell them to do.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Get stuffed Reform !

Piss off Farage

[goats]

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Wonder if they will stick to this type of guff, if one takes a close look at Plaid's declared policies, such as net zero years earlier than the Labour plan, extra spending in multiple areas of welfare and the arts, unilateral nuclear disarmament, nation of sanctuary, gender self-identification etc they are even more PC and fiscally incontinent than Labour. There is no way a Plaid government with real power would do anything but make things worse. Hopefully, I’ll be out of here in 5/6 years when the kids are done with school.

[Dorcus]

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All sounds good to me: more power to their elbow 👍

[JamesWales]

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Wonder if they will stick to this type of guff, if one takes a close look at Plaid's declared policies, such as net zero years earlier than the Labour plan, extra spending in multiple areas of welfare and the arts, unilateral nuclear disarmament, nation of sanctuary, gender self-identification etc they are even more PC and fiscally incontinent than Labour. There is no way a Plaid government with real power would do anything but make things worse. Hopefully, I’ll be out of here in 5/6 years when the kids are done with school.

Agreed. As said before I think Lindsay Whittle seems an excellent candidate and deserved winner but as a party most of their rhetoric won't work in practice and like them all they will have to radically water down what they talk about.

Will be really interesting to see how they interact with Labour in the next few months before Mays election, and how close they choose to be with them.

[goats]

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Agreed. As said before I think Lindsay Whittle seems an excellent candidate and deserved winner but as a party most of their rhetoric won't work in practice and like them all they will have to radically water down what they talk about.

Will be really interesting to see how they interact with Labour in the next few months before Mays election, and how close they choose to be with them.

It’s definitely more interesting, I’ve been saying for ages we need more choice, not just the usual ding ding two party state lurching from one to the other. It might not be ideal or most people’s cup of tea ( plaid or reform) but it will probably make the other three main ones sort themselves out and not be so complacent about historical support.

[Wales-Bales]

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It’s definitely more interesting, I’ve been saying for ages we need more choice, not just the usual ding ding two party state lurching from one to the other. It might not be ideal or most people’s cup of tea ( plaid or reform) but it will probably make the other three main ones sort themselves out and not be so complacent about historical support.

Traditional voting patterns will not get Britain or Europe out of the mess that they've got themselves into.

[City123]

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First new Senedd poll of the election year and its an interesting one: https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2026-...atest-itv-poll

Has Plaid Cymru miles out in front. Never seen anything quite like that, Labour down in 4th! :yikes:

Projected seats in the article
Plaid 45
Reform 23
Greens 11
Labour 8
Tories 6
Lib Dems 3

[goats]

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First new Senedd poll of the election year and its an interesting one: https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2026-...atest-itv-poll

Has Plaid Cymru miles out in front. Never seen anything quite like that, Labour down in 4th! :yikes:

Projected seats in the article
Plaid 45
Reform 23
Greens 11
Labour 8
Tories 6
Lib Dems 3

Can’t see it, wishful thinking there by the fundamentals

[City123]

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Can’t see it, wishful thinking there by the fundamentals

I can't see it being that big, but Cardiff Uni and YouGov are the ones who put it together

I think Plaid have led every one of these polls for a while

[JamesWales]

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I can see Plaid getting the biggest share, but like the last poll, I can't see the result panning out quite like that. The Welsh polls seem to be more susceptible to fairly wild swings, I'm not sure why?

[goats]

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I can't see it being that big, but Cardiff Uni and YouGov are the ones who put it together

I think Plaid have led every one of these polls for a while

Desperate times eh

[Dorcus]

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Can’t see it, wishful thinking there by the fundamentals

Maybe not but let's keep our fingers crossed Plaid get in. Anything to keep the rabble out