Welsh Labour have hit 30 seats in the Senedd, equalling their best-ever performance since devolution. The First Minister, Mark Drakeford, can choose between a minority administration on an issue-by-issue basis or he could reconstruct the coalition between Labour and the Liberal Democrats.
Welsh Labour defeated its opponents in every part of Wales. It took seats from Plaid Cymru in a bruising election for leader Adam Price, in which Leanne Wood, his predecessor, lost her seat in the Rhondda. Welsh Labour won in the godless capital, where Drakeford increased his majority. It saw off Conservative challenges in traditional marginals that the Tories have now held for more than a decade at Westminster, such as the Vale of Glamorgan, as well as the Tory challenge in seats lost by Labour in 2019 (be that first-time Red Wall constituencies such as Wrexham or long-time stretch marginals such as Delyn).
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