{"id":570182,"date":"2026-05-07T00:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570182\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T00:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:57:15","slug":"senedd-election-2026-wales-goes-to-the-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570182\/","title":{"rendered":"Senedd election 2026: Wales goes to the polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unlike Westminster elections, you do not need to bring ID or your polling card with you to vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is the second Welsh parliamentary election allowing 16 and 17-year-olds to take part.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another change at this election is that voters will cast their ballot once, for a political party or independent candidate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At previous Senedd elections there were two votes &#8211; one for a candidate and another one for a political party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elections are also taking place to the Scottish Parliament on Thursday, and local elections and mayoral contests are happening in some parts of England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlike Westminster elections, you do not need to bring ID or your polling card with you to vote.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-570182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}