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All change! The 2026 Senedd Election

All change! The 2026 Senedd Election

Posted on 12 May 2026 by Jac Larner

This is a guest post from Dr James Griffiths at University of Manchester. Follow him on Bluesky here: @jamesdgriffiths.bsky.social The 2026 Senedd election was one of momentous change. Using a […]

Uncertainty and Asymmetry: Electoral Understanding in the 2026 Senedd Election

Uncertainty and Asymmetry: Electoral Understanding in the 2026 Senedd Election

Posted on 5 May 2026 by Jac Larner

This is a guest post from William Davies, a PhD student at Cardiff University. You can follow him on Bluesky at @willdv2002.bsky.social As Thursday’s election draws closer and closer, it’s […]

What Welsh Parties Promised When Everyone Knew Who Would Win

What Welsh Parties Promised When Everyone Knew Who Would Win

Posted on 3 March 2026 by Jac Larner

This is a joint post by Christian Arnold (University of Birmingham), Daksh Dewgun (University of Birmingham), Fraser McMillan (University of Edinburgh), and Jac Larner (Cardiff University). It is based on […]

Consolidation, Not Conversion: Understanding Wales’s Ongoing Realignment

Consolidation, Not Conversion: Understanding Wales’s Ongoing Realignment

Posted on 17 December 2025 by Jac Larner

This is a joint post by Jac Larner (Cardiff) and James Griffiths (University of Manchester). They received substantive input from Richard Wyn Jones and Ed Gareth Poole (Cardiff), and questionnaire […]

The Welsh Electoral Pendulum: The Multilevel Voter and Switching between Westminster and Senedd Elections

The Welsh Electoral Pendulum: The Multilevel Voter and Switching between Westminster and Senedd Elections

Posted on 28 July 2024 by Jac Larner

The 2026 Senedd election will mark a new era of devolution in Wales, with an expanded Senedd and a new electoral system unlocking new dynamics of party competition. In this […]

Stark choices await the Welsh Budget – whichever party wins the UK General Election

Stark choices await the Welsh Budget – whichever party wins the UK General Election

Posted on 26 June 2024 by Guto Ifan

Wales Fiscal Analysis briefing on the implications of the 2024 General Election manifestos for the Welsh Government budget As the General Election campaign reaches its final stages, the major UK […]

Local government finance: five key trends for the next five years

Local government finance: five key trends for the next five years

Posted on 27 April 2022 by Cian Sion

As local election day approaches, this Wales Fiscal Analysis blog post sets out the funding and spending context for local authorities over the next five years.

The beginning of ‘clear blue water’?

The beginning of ‘clear blue water’?

Posted on 12 June 2017 by Nye Davies

After a disappointing election night for the party in Wales, Nye Davies explores calls for the strengthening of the Welsh Conservative brand Disappointment in Wales After the first Welsh General […]

Dryswch yng Nghymru Fydd?

Dryswch yng Nghymru Fydd?

Posted on 14 February 2017 by Aled Hughes

Aled Morgan Hughes sy’n ymateb i argymhellion diweddar gan Lywodraeth Cymru ar ddiwygio etholiadau cyngor sir… Dros yr ugain mlynedd ddiwethaf, gyda thwf pwerau a chynrychiolaeth, does fawr amheuaeth i […]

Political Knowledge in Wales

Political Knowledge in Wales

Posted on 7 February 2017 by Jac Larner

The issue of measuring the political knowledge of voters is one that can be traced to the origins of modern political science. Without the ability to measure public opinion on […]