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Wales Turns a Page: Plaid Cymru Ends a Century of Labour
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This episode covers the Senedd election of 7 May 2026, in which Plaid Cymru won 43 seats, Reform UK 34, Labour 9, Conservatives 7, Greens 2, and Liberal Democrats 1. It explains the new 96-member Senedd, sixteen six-member constituencies, party-list PR, and 49 needed for a majority. It also covers First Minister Eluned Morgan losing her seat, the first UK government leader to do so in office, resigning as Welsh Labour leader, and Rhun ap Iorwerth being elected First Minister on 12 May, leading a minority Plaid government.