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Love the blank picture for Reform’s leader in Wales! Says it all. No policies, no leader, no respect for Wales.

This is what I meant yesterday about big change after the boomer generation’s political weight starts to drop off. Under-25s would elect 0 (yes, zero) Reform Senedd members, yet the boomers would deliver 32 (with 22 Tories too). There’s a huge shift on the horizon.

👀 Plaid Cymru majority government and a Green opposition if it was just under-25s voting in the Senedd election. Not a single Reform seat to be seen (they’re polling at 4% in this age group in Wales).

Analysis and breakdowns of demographic data and the way in which it translates in terms of Senedd representation incoming later - some very interesting patterns emerging (from the YouGov ITV Barn polling dataset 060525) Be excited! 😁 😊

Analysis and breakdowns of demographic data and the way in which it translates in terms of Senedd representation incoming later - some very interesting patterns emerging (from the YouGov ITV Barn polling dataset 060525) Be excited! 😁 😊

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In this clip from the Spare a Thought Pod listen to our Director, Gwern Gwynfil, as he discusses the importance of culture and language and our growing maturity as a nation and as a country in the way we perceive our own national treasures

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A long way out from the election, Gwern Gwynfil sticking his neck out with an election result prediction for the Senedd in May 2026 😱 Listen to the end for the Reform UK takedown! (and subscribe to our channel 😄 ) youtu.be/5QF8mySD_r4

A long way out from the election, Gwern Gwynfil sticking his neck out with an election result prediction for the Senedd in May 2026 😱 Listen to the end for the Reform UK takedown! (and subscribe to our channel 😄 ) youtu.be/5QF8mySD_r4

Polls seem to be shuffling about this ‘3 way split’ but I’ll be surprised not to see at least a couple of Greens if only as a “left wing protest” vote. A sort of 28-2-28 split would be a real kingmaker situation if they can ‘anoint’ the biggest group (who govern with a conf & supply with the other)

"The nature of the new electoral system means that small differences in voter numbers can have a radical impact on seat returns"... As was inevitable & was pointed out by a good few PPL, d'Hondt is not designed to work with such minuscule numbers of PPL to be elected...

As this rightly says, the d’Hondt system - which simply wasn’t designed for this kind of list system - introduces all sorts of anomalies and feedback effects. With the big parties assured one seat per constituency, it’s all about the lottery of marginal swings for those fifth and sixth seats.

Seat predictions using our model for 2026 Senedd elections based on the Nation Cymru Beaufort research survey data Observations below 1/

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This is the Senedd projection when we translate survey answers to the Wales Online question 'which political party would do the best job of running Wales if in government at the Senedd/Welsh Parliament' 1/

Keep an eye out for @newwales.bsky.social’s Senedd projection of the Beaufort poll for Wales Online. Hearing there’s some interesting results….

In this clip from the Spare a Thought Pod listen to our Director, Gwern Gwynfil, as he discusses the importance of culture and language and our growing maturity as a nation and as a country in the way we perceive our own national treasures