Thanks for joining us for our live coverage of the final day of campaigning in Wales for tomorrow's Senedd election.

Polling stations will be open from 0700 to 2200 BST on Thursday.

The results will take a little longer than usual to come, not least because counting in Wales will not start until Friday morning due to the pandemic.

Click here for details of results coverage from the BBC on TV, radio, online and social media.

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Polling stations will be open for tomorrow's Senedd and police and crime commissioner elections, but there will be rules to ensure voting is Covid safe.

• Social distancing measures will be in place, including one-way systems, queue management and the use of clear safety screens.
• Voters are asked to bring pens or pencils, although they will be available if needed and subject to sanitising procedures.
• Face coverings must be worn inside a polling station, unless you have a valid reason for exemption. A supply of face coverings will be available to anyone entering the polling station without one.
• No details will be collected for Test, Trace, Protect (TTP) reasons where the polling station is only being used for voting purposes.
• No proof is needed of a negative Covid test, but you and anyone you live with should remain at home and self-isolate if instructed to, or if you are displaying any Covid symptoms.

Full details are available, external on the Welsh Government website.

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A Welsh Labour candidate has said she would have preferred “a slightly more radical approach” in her party’s Senedd manifesto.

Jenny Rathbone said she thought it was "slightly over-cautious", allowing Plaid Cymru to "nibble away at people who want something more radical”.

“It’s a cautious approach. I would have preferred us to have a slightly more radical approach," she told the LabourList, external website.

Ms Rathbone said she thought Welsh Labour leader Mark Drakeford was "as radical" as the party's former UK leader Jeremy Corbyn, but "a much more cautious guy".

"He doesn’t promise anything he feels he can’t deliver, which I think is the right way to go about it," she said.

“Overpromise and underdeliver? Not politically very sharp."

However, Ms Rathbone added: “I think Mark’s objective was to ensure that Plaid didn’t appear to be more radical than us, and I don’t think that he’s managed to do it.”

If you're going to the polls tomorrow in Wales you'll also be given a ballot paper to choose a police and crime commissioner.

The elected posts - one for each force area - were created by the UK government in 2012 with the aim of giving greater scrutiny and local public accountability to policing.

Click here for a guide to what's at stake from BBC Wales home affairs correspondent Jenny Rees, including a postcode search to find out who the candidates are in your area.

With just hours left before the polls open, trade unions are calling for the next Welsh government to "fight for fairness".

The Wales TUC is calling for pay rises for all public sector workers, including NHS staff, porters and cleaners, with 85% of members backing pay increases for nurses.

In its manifesto, ahead of Thursday's vote, the organisation said workers backed further devolution of powers from London to Cardiff Bay.

Wales TUC General Secretary Shavanah Taj said people should elect a new government which would "prioritise greater workplace equality and fight to make Wales a Fair Work nation".

“The last year has shown the grim reality of our labour market for tens of thousands of workers across Wales," she said.

"Young workers, BAME workers, and people in insecure work have been disproportionately hit – losing jobs, income, skills and opportunities."

Ms Taj added that urgent action was needed to "rebuild a fairer and more resilient Wales".

David Deans
BBC Wales politics reporter

More people have registered for a postal vote in the 2021 Senedd election than in the last assembly election five years ago.

But the figures, which are not complete, suggest there may not be a substantial increase on the numbers from 2016 despite the pandemic.

Figures obtained by BBC Wales show that at least 451,006 people have registered to vote by post across Wales' 40 constituencies.

That is at least 14% more than the 395,878 postal voters in the Welsh Assembly election in 2016.

However, the overall number of people registered to vote has risen by 6%, from 2.2m to 2.3m.

The postal vote figures do not include the Monmouthshire part of Newport East, but without those figures it amounts to at least 19% of the electorate.

That’s compared to 17.62% in 2016.

Many of the figures were provided by the Association of Electoral Administrators, and by some individual councils.

BBC Wales correspondent Hywel Griffith is not the only one to note that visiting politicians seem inordinately keen on eating chips at the Welsh seaside.

To be fair, we have been in lockdown for quite a while.

Daniel Davies
BBC Wales political correspondent

In a brief interview with us here in the Vale of Clwyd, Rishi Sunak hit the Conservatives' key message that the Tories offer change in this election.

We didn't cover much ground. His aides called time after two questions.

The chancellor also pointed to the billions in additional funding he's given the Welsh government during the pandemic. Around £1bn is waiting to be allocated after the election.

But there is a question about what happens when all that money has been spent.

The clever people at the Wales Governance Centre talk about the possible implications in their fascinating analysis of the three main parties' manifestos. You can see it here, external.

As far as the Tories' manifesto is concerned, the analysis says paying for all its promises – such as on NHS funding and a possible income-tax cut – will overshoot pessimistic projections for the size of the budget.

Like the Tories, Plaid Cymru would also need a more generous settlement from Westminster. Labour's plans are more modest.

What they all have in common is a “lack of detail on spending across the board”, the analysis team says.

By the way, it's not surprising the chancellor chose to come to the Vale of Clwyd constituency, the seat Sir Keir Starmer visited yesterday.

It's a key Labour-Tory battleground. If the Tories are heading for a good result – and a poll out today will buoy their confidence – many would consider this seat the most likely to turn blue.

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There are more Steves and Daves running in Thursday's Senedd election than there are women candidates running in all but one of the 18 parties standing.

Of the 469 candidates, 14 are called Steve, Stephen or Steven and there are 11 named David, Dave or Dai.

The only party fielding more women than the combined number of candidates called Steve or Dave is Welsh Labour.

The party's 50/50 gender split between its 60 candidates means it had 30 women standing.

Plaid Cymru has put forward 19 women candidates (35%) and the Welsh Conservatives have 17 (30%).

As might be expected, the most common candidate surname in Wales for Thursday's election is Jones with a total of 23 standing.

That is followed by Davies (15), Williams (13) and Evans (11).

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Tens of thousands of young people have not taken up the chance to vote for the first time at the Senedd election.

On Thursday, 16 and 17-year-olds will be able to vote in the Welsh Parliament election after the voting age was lowered.

However, figures compiled by the BBC suggest 54% of young people have failed to register to vote in Thursday's poll.

The data compares numbers registered with population estimates for 21 of Wales' 22 council areas.

Figures show 2,421,108 people in Wales - about 76.7% of the whole population - are registered.

The finding comes despite the efforts of grime artists, fitness stars, and Instagram and TikTok influencers to engage young people in the election.

However, campaigners have said they felt young people were not being listened to by politicians, and that parties had not done enough to reach potential new voters.

The leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats has acknowledged she is not going to be the next first minister of Wales.

Jane Dodds is campaigning in the seat of Brecon and Radnorshire on the final day before voters go to the polls.

The seat was previously held by the Lib Dems’ only MS in the last Senedd, Kirsty Williams.

Speaking outside the Miners’ Institute in Ystradgynlais, Ms Dodds said: “I would love to be first minister, but I'm going to be honest, I'm not going to be the first minister of Wales this time.

“I think, if I had a chance of being in government, the first thing that I would be doing is looking at child poverty. I would want to look at how we can address child poverty here in Wales."

Ms Dodds declined to rule out entering a coalition with any of the other parties after the election, but said her primary concern was winning more seats.

“We're very clear that right now we're going to fight for every single vote,” she said.

“We're not taking anything for granted. We're not bargaining with any votes. Let's see what happens tomorrow, and we'll take it from there.

“Certainly we want to win Brecon and Radnorshire, but we are looking to get some places in the regional seats as well which we've always done well in," she said.

Asked whether her leadership was tenable if the party failed to gain any representation in the Senedd, Ms Dodds said she would not stand down regardless of the outcome.

“My position as leader will be that I will carry on.

“I'm not here to talk about my job, I'm here to talk about the jobs of others. That's what's most important, that's what we're hearing on the doorstep - that people want us to talk about jobs, about mental health, and about the environment."

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You could get into trouble depending what's in the background of your photo.

There are also pitfalls if you decide to sign your ballot paper.

Find out more about what you can and can't do here

The Wales Green Party is hoping to win its first-ever seat in the Senedd tomorrow, with a number of regions on its target list.

Mid and West Wales, South Wales Central and South Wales East are all in the party's sights.

The Greens are urging people to use their regional vote to support them.

Leader Anthony Slaughter said: "We are hearing on the doorstep from first-time Green voters they are lending us their regional ballot because they like what we stand for and they want to vote to keep out Abolish.

"With Labour unable to win on this ballot in much of Wales, it is vital people who want a progressive voice representing them vote Green."

Self-proclaimed "virgin voter" Hayley Pearce gets a crash course in Welsh politics in this special programme for BBC Wales.

She seeks advice from old friends, young activists and political experts across Wales.

Her aim? To better understand how her vote can make a difference.

Click here to watch the full programme.

Welsh Labour leader Mark Drakeford has admitted his party is “battling hard in north Wales”.

Labour lost four seats to the Conservatives in the north east at the Westminster election in 2019 – and the party is hoping to stop it happening in the Senedd.

“We have to restore our bargain with the people of north Wales,” Mr Drakeford said.

He made the comments while visiting the Hangfire Southern Kitchen in Barry, in the south Wales constituency of the Vale of Glamorgan.

The seat is held by the Conservatives in the House of Commons, but by Labour in the Senedd.

It's another constituency the Tories are hoping to gain from Labour.

Asked if the fact he had chosen to go to the Vale of Glamorgan suggested he was worried about the seat, Mr Drakeford said: “I'm here because the real contest in this election is between a Labour progressive government for Wales and handing Wales back to London with the Tories.

“In this constituency, that's exactly the argument that is on the line.”

Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price says "every vote will count in constituencies right across Wales", telling BBC Wales the election was "going to be won on small margins".

He visited a food wholesaler and processing company at Cross Hands, in the marginal Senedd seat of Llanelli, won by Labour in 2016.

"Our message to people out there is get out and vote tomorrow - every vote will count," he said.

"We have a historic opportunity to elect the first Plaid Cymru government in our history.

"That will send headlines across the world.

"It will electrify Wales because we will have a government that will believe in the potential of Wales to solve our problems, the problems that have been there for generations.

"We can put our country now on a different path."

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Chancellor Rishi Sunak has told BBC Wales the Conservatives could bring “change” to Wales if voters backed them on Thursday.

The party has said voting Tory would ensure “two governments working together to rebuild after the pandemic and level up Wales”.

Journalists, including BBC Wales, were limited to two questions each for Mr Sunak, on the tightly controlled visit to Rhyl.

Asked by the BBC's Daniel Davies if he was telling the electorate that extra cash would not be available if they voted for Labour, Mr Sunak said: “If you want to see change that we’re bringing across the United Kingdom, if you vote for a Conservative government here in Wales, we’ll be able to deliver that change here as well.

“It's about making sure that we've completed the vaccine roll-out, and then we drive forward our economic recovery as we've protected people's jobs and businesses over the past 12 months.”

BBC Wales asked the chancellor if he could see why he was criticised for a decision not to extend job support when the Welsh government wanted to hold its firebreak lockdown last autumn. Furlough was extended when England locked down later.

Mr Sunak did not address the point directly but said: “I think at every point during the past 12 months during this crisis I and the government have acted to protect people in all parts of the United Kingdom.

“If you think about things like the furlough scheme, that's protected almost half a million jobs here in Wales. Fifty thousand businesses have benefited from government-backed loans.”

The chancellor said there had been £8bn “over two years of direct cash support for the Welsh government to support its local economy as well”.

“I know that we have stood behind people of Wales at this difficult time over the past 12 months,” Mr Sunak added.

Prof Laura McAllister
Cardiff University

These Senedd elections are not the ones we anticipated and there's a strange contradictory feel to them.

It's been a low-key campaign which has scarcely dazzled, yet the results on Friday feel more significant than ever.

The Members of the Senedd - or MSs - elected will serve in a proper parliament with law-making and tax setting powers.

Added excitement comes from the very tight margins that will decide at least a quarter of the constituency seats and several regional list seats.

Small shifts in votes could determine the distribution of seats to parties and therefore the shape of our next Welsh government.

So, the final results are unpredictable, dependent as they are on several important unknowns.

First, this is a Covid election - both practically and policy-wise.

We are edging out of lockdown, but with gargantuan recovery problems ahead.

Most of us had imagined a dramatically different political landscape for Senedd 2021, framed by post-Brexit adaptation - not a pandemic.

Read more from Laura here.

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UKIP Wales leader Neil Hamilton will be in Torfaen on Wednesday, the party has said.

"UKIP is presenting voters with a real alternative to Labour who have failed communities like Torfaen,” a spokesman said.

"We are asking voters to put their trust in UKIP - as they did in 2016 - to deliver a better future for the south Wales valleys.

"Just as UKIP led the charge in the last assembly term to scrap the Severn Bridge tolls, we will champion the case for building the M4 relief road which will bring desperately needed investment to the valleys.”

Why do we vote on Thursdays?

The answer seems to be there isn't really a good reason and it's just become a tradition. Theories offered include the idea that people are less likely to go to the pub than they are on Fridays, and that traditionally Thursday was market day, so people were more likely to be out and about anyway.

BBC Wales' Westminster correspondent Ione Wells took over Instagram to answer these and other questions posed by you.

Check out her answers here.