Labour HOLD Pontypriddpublished at 20:53 British Summer Time 7 May 2021Breaking
Labour have held Pontypridd.
Mick Antoniw is a former counsel general and has been a MS since 2011.
He won with 41.8% of the vote.
All the 40 constituency seats have been declared, along with 12 regional seats
The tally at the end of Friday is: Labour 30, Conservatives 12, Plaid Cymru 9, Lib Dems 1
Labour has held on to all but one of its seats targeted by the Conservatives
The Tories narrowly take Vale of Clwyd from Labour and beat the Liberal Democrats in Brecon and Radnorshire
It means the Lib Dems will have no constituency seats in the Senedd, but they have picked up a regional seat
Plaid have held three seats in their north-west heartlands all with increased majorities - but lose Rhondda to Labour
This is the first election in which 16 and 17-year-olds can vote
Voters have elected 40 Members of the Senedd (MS) representing constituencies and 20 representing five large regions
31 seats are needed for a majority
In 2016, Labour won 29 seats, Plaid Cymru 12, the Conservatives 11, UKIP seven and the Liberal Democrats one
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Labour have held Pontypridd.
Mick Antoniw is a former counsel general and has been a MS since 2011.
He won with 41.8% of the vote.
Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price has held his seat in Carmarthen East and Dinefwr.
He will serve another term, having been an MS since 2016.
He got 45.9% of the vote.
Labour have held the seat in Cynon Valley.
Vikki Howells has been an MS since 2016 and will sit in the Senedd for another term.
She won with 55.7% of the vote.
Bad news if you were expecting to get all the Welsh results today.
The declaration for both the South Wales East and South Wales Central regions will not be made until tomorrow.
There are 60 Members of the Senedd (MSs), 40 of whom represent individual constituencies.
The other 20 represent the five regions - South Wales East, South Wales Central, South Wales West, Mid and West Wales and North Wales.
Each region has four MSs.
Voters get two ballots - one for a person to be their constituency MS, and the other for a party for their region.
Cardiff South and Penarth is the third Cardiff seat to declare so far and it's another hold for Labour.
Health Minister Vaughan Gething has been the MS here since 2011.
He received 49.9% of the votes in today's count.
The Conservatives have won Brecon and Radnorshire.
The former Lib Dem seat was taken by James Evans.
Standing down in this election was the Lib Dems' only MS in the last Senedd - former Education Minister Kirsty Williams.
But William Powell failed to keep the seat.
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Labour hold Cardiff North, electing Julie Morgan to the Senedd again.
She got 19,348 votes, with her majority increased from 3,667 to 6,593.
Her constituency saw a 3.3% swing from the Conservatives to Labour.
She has been the MS for Cardiff North since 2011 and was an MP between 1997 and 2010.
The Conservatives were in second place with 12,755 votes.
Here are some of the headlines from the results so far:
Two Conservative members of the Senedd have been celebrating their wins in a way that would have been seen as a bit unusual before the pandemic struck.
Paul Davies has been returned to the Senedd for Preseli Pembrokeshire and Sam Kurtz is the newly elected MS for Carmarthen West and Pembrokeshire South.
Both constituency's votes were counted in Haverfordwest, where the politicians appeared as pleased as punch.
Labour has held Cardiff Central.
Jenny Rathbone has been the MS since 2011 and this time round won the seat with 49.5% of the vote.
Former Labour First Minister Carwyn Jones said the major issue raised on the doorstep had been his successor Mark Drakeford's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
"It was competence, it was Mark, it was the fact that people felt they were in safe hands," he said.
"People were telling me over and over again how well they thought Mark had performed as first minister during the time of the pandemic."
He spoke to BBC Wales as Sarah Murphy retained his former seat in Bridgend for Labour, a constituency his party lost to the Conservatives at the 2019 UK general election.
"From our perspective this is better than we could have dreamt of in many, many ways," he said.
"To see Sarah win is fantastic, and to win so well, that's really good."
Labour hold Torfaen, with Lynne Neagle returning to the Senedd again.
She has been an MS since 1999.
She won 11,572 votes, with her majority increased from 4,498 to 5,321.
The Conservatives came second with 6,251 votes.
Prof Laura McAllister
Cardiff University
Laura McAllister, professor of public policy at Cardiff University, says Labour "performed better than most people expected them to".
"After 22 years in power, with a Conservative Party that was really strongly tipped to make significant breakthroughs, and of course Plaid Cymru biting its ankles as well, that's some achievement.
"If Labour comes out with 28, 29 seats I think that would be a pretty remarkable result."
We haven't seen much change today but Labour have won the seat in Rhondda from Plaid Cymru with 54.7% of the vote.
Elizabeth Buffy Williams has won the seat from Leanne Wood, former Plaid leader.
Leanne Wood took the seat from Labour on a 24% swing in 2016.
She took 31.4% in this vote, 19.3 points less than in 2016.
Labour hold Llanelli.
Lee Waters, a former chief political correspondent for ITV Wales, has been elected to the Senedd again.
He took 13,930 votes, with his majority substantially increased from 382 to 5,675.
The constituency saw an 8.7% swing from Plaid Cymru to Labour.
Plaid Cymru's Helen Mary Jones came second, winning 8,255 votes.
Labour have held the seat in Aberavon.
David Rees has been MS since 2011 and won by 47.4% of the vote.
Newport have held Newport West.
Jayne Bryant has been an MS since 2016 and won with 48.2% of the vote.
We've already heard that Labour are happy with how it's going in Rhondda - now the man who represents it at Westminster is paying tribute to the Plaid candidate.
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Plaid Cymru hold Ceredigion, with Presiding Officer Elin Jones returned to the Senedd again.
She received 16,946 votes, with her majority substantially increased from 2,408 to 12,145.
The Conservatives came second with 4,801 votes.
Labour hold the Newport East seat.
John Griffiths, a former minister for the environment, has been a member in Cardiff Bay since the very start in 1999.
He won with seat with 47.1% of the vote.