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Every constituency in Wales has now declared its winners, and 96 new Senedd Members have been elected.

Of those 96, more than two-thirds will be new, firmly marking a new era of Welsh politics.

Plaid Cymru has emerged as the largest party with 43 seats – six short of a majority. Reform will be the second largest party with 34 seats.

Welsh Labour has fallen to just nine seats and will lose its 27-year grip on power, while the Welsh Conservatives are down to seven.

Elsewhere, the Green Party has earned its first-ever representation in Cardiff Bay, with two of its candidates elected. The Lib Dems remain on one seat, with its leader Jane Dodds returning.

Locally, there’ll be a lot of new faces for voters to get used to in Blaenau Gwent Caerffili Rhymni, and Casnewydd Islwyn.

While Plaid Cymru’s Delyth Jewell and Lindsay Whittle have been re-elected in Blaenau Gwent Caerffili Rhymni, they will be joined by party colleague Niamh Salkeld – a new face to the Senedd.

The three other seats in the constituency all go to Reform – with Llyr Powell, Catherine Cullen, and Joshua Kim all elected.

Labour failed to win a single seat in the constituency – with list topper Alun Davies falling agonisingly close despite a recount. It brings to an end a 19-year career in the Welsh Parliament that began in 2007.

Over in Casnewydd Islwyn, Plaid Cymru’s Peredur Owen Griffiths will be back to serve a second term in the Senedd. Between 2021 and 2026, he represented the old South Wales East region.

Mr Owen Griffiths is joined by fellow-Plaid candidate Lyn Ackerman, a former Caerphilly County Borough councillor for Newbridge.

Conservative Natasha Asghar, who became the first woman of colour ever elected to the Senedd back in 2021, has retained her seat, while Labour’s Jayne Bryant, who has represented Newport West since 2016, also returns to represent the newly created constituency.

But the vote in Casnewydd Islwyn was topped by Reform – whose candidates Dan Thomas and Art Wright have been elected. Mr Thomas is now expected to lead the largest opposition group in the Siambr.

Results elsewhere will also have a knock-on effect in Caerphilly County Borough Council. Hengoed councillor Donna Cushing, of Plaid Cymru, has won a seat in the Sir Fynwy Torfaen constituency. Due to Senedd rules around members holding more than one elected office, a by-election will now be on the cards in Hengoed.

Meanwhile, Reform’s Laura Anne Jones – a former Conservative MS who represented the old South Wales East seat – will now represent Sir Fynwy Torfaen – ending her link to Caerphilly County Borough.

One MS who will not be returning is Dawn Bowden, who did not seek re-election having served the former Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney seat since 2016. She was first elected in the same year as Labour’s Rhianon Passmore, who has lost her place in the Senedd after Labour could only win one seat in the new Casnewydd Islwyn area.

Labour’s Vikki Howells, a former history teacher and assistant head of sixth form at Caerphilly’s St Cenydd Comprehensive School, has been elected to the Senedd for a third time, and will serve the Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr constituency. Between 2016 and 2026, she represented the old Cynon Valley seat.

Full list of elected candidates

Returning members are marked with an asterisk

Afan Ogwr Rhondda

• Sera Evans (Plaid Cymru)
• Benjamin Hodge McKenna (Reform)
• Alun Cox (Plaid Cymru)
• Steve Bayliss (Reform)
• Huw Irranca-Davies (Labour)*
• Elyn Stephens (Plaid Cymru)

Bangor Conwy Mon

• Rhun ap Iorwerth (Plaid Cymru)*
• Helen Jenner (Reform)
• Mair Rowlands (Plaid Cymru)
• Elfed Williams (Plaid Cymru)
• John Clark (Reform)
• Janet Finch-Saunders (Conservatives)*

Blaenau Gwent Caerffili Rhymni

• Delyth Jewell (Plaid Cymru)*
• Llyr Powell (Reform)
• Lindsay Whittle (Plaid Cymru)*
• Catherine Cullen (Reform)
• Niamh Salkeld (Plaid Cymru)
• Joshua Kim (Reform)

Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd

• James Evans (Reform)*
• Sioned Williams (Plaid Cymru)*
• Iain McIntosh (Reform)
• Rebecca Phillips (Plaid Cymru)
• Jane Dodds (Lib Dems)*
• David Mills (Reform)

Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf

• Dafydd Trystan-Davies (Plaid Cymru)
• Cai Parry-Jones (Reform)
• Zaynub Akbar (Plaid Cymru)
• Shav Taj (Labour)
• Nick Carter (Plaid Cymru)
• Paul Rock (Green Party)

Caerdydd Penarth

• Anna Brychan (Plaid Cymru)
• Kiera Marshall (Plaid Cymru)
• Joe Martin (Reform)
• Anthony Slaughter (Green Party)
• Leticia Gonzalez (Plaid Cymru)
• Huw Thomas (Labour)

Casnewydd Islwyn

• Dan Thomas (Reform)
• Peredur Owen Griffiths (Plaid Cymru)*
• Art Wright (Reform)
• Lyn Ackerman (Plaid Cymru)
• Jayne Bryant (Labour)*
• Natasha Asghar (Conservatives)*

Ceredigion Penfro

• Elin Jones (Plaid Cymru)*
• Susan Archibald (Reform)
• Kerry Ferguson (Plaid Cymru)
• Paul Davies (Conservatives)
• Paul Marr (Reform)
• Anna Nicholl (Reform)

Clwyd

• Adrian Gwyn Mason (Reform)
• Llyr Gruffydd (Plaid Cymru)*
• Darren Millar (Conservatives)*
• Louise Emery (Reform)
• Becca Martin (Plaid Cymru)
• Thomas Montgomery (Reform)

Fflint Wrecsam

• Christiana Emsley (Reform)
• Carrie Harper (Plaid Cymru)
• Nigel Williams (Reform)
• Marc Jones (Plaid Cymru)
• Sam Rowlands (Conservatives)*
• Ken Skates (Labour)*

Gwynedd Maldwyn

• Sian Gwenllian (Plaid Cymru)*
• Andrew Griffin (Reform)
• Mabon ap Gwynfor (Plaid Cymru)*
• Beca Brown (Plaid Cymru)
• Claire Johnson-Wood (Reform)
• Elwyn Vaughan (Plaid Cymru)

Gwyr Abertawe

• Gwyn Williams (Plaid Cymru)
• Francesca O’Brien (Reform)
• Safa Elhassan (Plaid Cymru)
• Mike Hedges (Labour)*
• Steven Rodaway (Reform)
• John Davies (Plaid Cymru)

Pen y Bont Bro Morgannwg

• Mark Hooper (Plaid Cymru)
• Sarah Cooper-Lesadd (Reform)
• Sarah Rees (Plaid Cymru)
• Andrew RT Davies (Conservatives)*
• Gareth Thomas (Reform)
• Sarah Murphy (Labour)*

Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr

• Heledd Fychan (Plaid Cymru)*
• Jason O’Connell (Reform)
• Lis McLean (Plaid Cymru)
• David Hughes (Reform)
• Sara Crowley (Plaid Cymru)
• Vikki Howells (Labour)*