Last Thursday’s historic vote saw Plaid win 43 seats and Reform UK come second with 34, pushing Labour into third with just nine seats in the expanded 96-member Senedd – ending a century-long run of election success in Wales.
No overnight counting of votes meant it wasn’t until Friday evening that the result, which saw Plaid become Wales’ largest party, was confirmed.
Ap Iorwerth, who also represents the constituency of Bangor Conwy Mon in north Wales, lives on the island of Anglesey with his wife, Llinos, with whom he has three grown up children.
But, like many Senedd politicians, he also has a property in Cardiff for the days he is working at the parliament, and now at the Welsh government’s headquarters in the city.
While the UK prime minister has Downing Street, and the first minister of Scotland has Bute House in Edinburgh, there is no official residence for the first minister of Wales.
A lack of an official residence for Welsh first ministers was questioned following protests outside former Welsh Labour leader Mark Drakeford’s Cardiff home.