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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 […]

First Minister drafts opposition leaders to help with Covid crisis

First Minister drafts opposition leaders to help with Covid crisis

Posted on 2 April 2020 by Wales Governance Centre

This post was written by Nye Davies and Luke Nicholas The First Minister’s decision to draft the leaders of the two largest opposition parties into his Cabinet Core Group is […]

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 […]