The 2021 Welsh Parliament election is the first to be held since Wales’ legislature changed its name from the National Assembly of Wales and the first to allow 16 and 17-year-olds to vote.
It is 22 years since devolution began to see law-making and taxation powers moved from Westminster to Cardiff Bay, with responsibilities for health, education, economic development, transport, the environment, agriculture and local government now resting in Wales.
Welsh Labour has dominated Wales’ governance and has consistently won the most seats across all five previous elections.
The Senedd soon after it opened in 2006
But the party has never won an outright majority and has needed support from independent members, Plaid Cymru, and the Liberal Democrats in order to form governments.
The 2021 Welsh Parliament election is the first to be held since Wales’ legislature changed its name from the National Assembly of Wales and the first to allow 16 and 17-year-olds to vote.
It is 22 years since devolution began to see law-making and taxation powers moved from Westminster to Cardiff Bay, with responsibilities for health, education, economic development, transport, the environment, agriculture and local government now resting in Wales.
Welsh Labour has dominated Wales’ governance and has consistently won the most seats across all five previous elections.
The Senedd soon after it opened in 2006
But the party has never won an outright majority and has needed support from independent members, Plaid Cymru, and the Liberal Democrats in order to form governments.
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image captionAdam Price told Wales Live he would consider being a rotating first minister, if the political arithmetic allowed
Plaid Cymru would not be a junior partner in coalition with Labour after the Senedd elections in May, its leader Adam Price says.
He told BBC s Wales Live: We would not agree to a simple rerun of 2007 where we were very much the junior partner.
In 2007, Plaid entered the One Wales coalition agreement with Labour, in which the then party leader Ieuan Wyn Jones served as deputy first minister.
Mr Price said: Clearly we are fighting this election to win.