{"id":572566,"date":"2026-05-08T07:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572566\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T07:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:53:09","slug":"wales-election-2026-votes-to-be-counted-for-welsh-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572566\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales election 2026: Votes to be counted for Welsh Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"

An election day like we have never known beforepublished at 07:00 BST<\/p>\n

07:00 BST<\/p>\n

\"SunImage source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

It’s the morning of a Senedd election… but not like one we have ever known before.<\/p>\n

For a start, around about now, most of the votes would usually have been counted, and bleary-eyed reporters would be delivering news of the winners after being up all night monitoring results.<\/p>\n

But this time, most are (relatively) well rested and primed for a busy day, with counting due to get under way later this morning.<\/p>\n

What they will be reporting on will also be different as voters prepare for a “once in a century change”<\/a>. <\/p>\n

For past elections, Wales has elected 60 members to the Senedd – 40 representing constituencies and 20 regional politicians.<\/p>\n

Today, there will be 96 people chosen<\/a> from 16 new constituencies, with the party that gets the most seats then able to start looking to form a government.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s going to be a busy day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An election day like we have never known beforepublished at 07:00 BST 07:00 BST Image source, Getty Images…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-572566","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\/572566","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=572566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}