Who won the regional vote?
ELUNED Morgan and Joyce Watson are both returning to the Senedd as Labour regional members for Mid and West Wales. This time they are joined by Cefin Campbell, from Plaid Cymru, and Lib Dem Jane Dodds, who kept the party’s only seat.
The region covers the constituencies of Brecon & Radnorshire, Carmarthen East & Dinefwr, Carmarthen West & Pembrokeshire South, Ceredigion, Dwyfor Meirionnydd, Llanelli, Montgomeryshire and Preseli Pembrokeshire.
Across Mid and West Wales the total number of votes for each party was:
■ Plaid Cymru 65,450 (27.47%, +1.18%)
■ Conservative 63,827 (26.79%, +6.19%)
■ Labour 61,733 (25.91%, +6.46%)
■ Liberal Democrats 16,181 (6.79%, -4.12%)
■ Green 10,545 (4.43%, +0.62%)
■ Abolish 8,073 (3.39%, -1.57%)
■ UKIP 3,731 (1.57%, -10.04%)
■ Reform 2,582 (1.08%)
■ Propel 1,428 (0.60%)
■ CPW 1,366 (0.57%)
■ Gwlad 1,303 (0.55%)
■ FA 1,181 (0.50%)
■ Comm Brit 589 (0.25%)
■ TUSC 257 (0.11%)
The turnout was 52.83%, up 2.09% from 2016.
Out of a total population of 450,927, voter turnout was 238,246.
Eluned Morgan is minister in the Welsh Government responsible for mental health, wellbeing and the Welsh language. She was the Labour frontbench spokesperson in the House of Lords on foreign affairs and Wales.
Before that she worked as the director of low carbon energy for SSE in Wales developing renewable energy and prior to that served as a Member of the European Parliament for 15 years.
She is 54 and married with two children.
Joyce Watson is a 66-year-old grandmother and Labour Senedd Member for Mid and West Wales since 2007. She lives in Haverfordwest and grew up in Tywyn, Manorbier, Cosheston and Cardigan, one of eight children. Before getting involved in politics she ran several small businesses – pubs, restaurants and retail – in West Wales.
Cefin Campbell is a Plaid Carmarthenshire county councillor since 2012 who lives with his family in the Towy Valley. He runs his own business which has advised some of Wales’s foremost public bodies including the Welsh Government, numerous local authorities, universities, health boards and S4C.
Jane Dodds, 57, was the short-lived MP for Brecon and Radnorshire and has returned to elected office and kept Lib Dem representation in the Senedd alive. Ms Dodds won the Brecon seat in August 2019 in a by-election, only to lose it four months later.
She has stood for the party a number of times across the UK and has also worked as a social worker.