Three Reform members win Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd seats in Senedd Election 2026

Brecon and Radnorshire will be represented by three members of Reform UK in the new-look Senedd, in the enlarged constituency of Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd.

Voters in the super constituency elected three Reform UK members, two Plaid Cymru members and one Liberal Democrat to represent them at the Senedd.

Lead Reform UK candidate James Evans, who previously presented Brecon and Radnorshire as a Conservative member before changing to Reform UK, retained his seat.

He will be joined by the second placed Reform UK candidate, Powys County Councillor Ian McIntosh and they also gained the sixth seat, giving David Terrence Mills his first experience as a Senedd member.

Plaid Cymru secured two of the six seats available with Sioned Ann Williams taking the second seat and Rebecca Phillips taking the fourth seat.

Liberal Democrat Jane Dodds will return to the Senedd after they clinched the sixth seat.

Reform UK received 26,897 votes in total, Plaid Cymru got 23,276 votes, Liberal Democrat Jane Dodds received 9,549 votes.

All of the other parties failed to secure seats but Labour received 7,086 votes, the Conservatives received 6,821 votes, Green got 5,405 votes, Independent, Beverley Baynham got 586, Welsh Christian Party got 456, Independent, Dai Richards got 316 votes, the Heritage Party received 275 votes, Independent, Joe Hale got 225 votes and Gwlad received 204 votes.

James Evans thanked the voters, election officers, and the other candidates for the respectful way the campaign had been held, his election team.

He also thanked his wife, Emma for supporting him to ‘go again’ even when he was not sure about it and his election team and everyone who had helped him over the past five years.

“Thank you to the constituents for returning the Reform members to the Senedd in Cardiff.

“It’s a huge day for Wales. We are going to see a change in Wales and if Reform is in a position to form a government, we stand ready to do that and put the people’s priorities first.”

Sioned said: “Those of us who have knocked on doors over the past few months know all to well that people are struggling. I understand the apathy with politics and the search for alternatives.

“It is up to us to revive people’s beliefs in a positive future for our nation. Central to Plaid Cymru’s vision is diversity is our strength. As your Plaid Cymru representative I will endeavour to give a voice and defend the rights of all citizens in this magnificent part of Wales.”

The Liberal Democrat’s only Senedd Member again, Jane Dodds thanked the election officers, the other candidates and the Welsh Liberal Democrats.

“It is a great honour to be back in the Senedd and to keep the flame of the Liberal Democrats alive. I hope my colleagues will enter the Senedd with compassion, kindness, no hatred, or division and no blaming others because that is what Brychieniog Tawe Nedd is.”

Voters across Wales went to the polls on Thursday to elect 96 members of the Senedd

Nationally Labour lost the Senedd, ending its 27 year-long rule and a century of winning elections, and First Minister Eluned Morgan became the first leader of a government in the UK to lose her seat while in office, as her administration, and Labour, were emphatically rejected by voters.

She resigned as Welsh Labour leader within minutes of her defeat in Ceredigion Penfro.

As the count was underway James Evans said if Reform gained power he would like to be agricultural minister in the new Senedd, fighting for farmers.

He described himself as oven ready and ready to go having already been a Senedd Member for Brecon and Radnorshire for the Conservatives.

James said it was also helpful to be a local lad with local connections in the Young Farmers Club, rugby club and a Gwernyfed darts team – where he intended to go after the election count ended.

He said he would have liked to have won all six seats, as the support across the constituency was there for Reform.

“It has been very positive knocking on doors in my old constituency and when Nigel Farage came to Brecon Market recently,” he added.

The Green’s top candidate Nathan Goldup-Jones said: “People were fed up on the doorstep, of politicians not delivering, not keeping their promises, not have politicians they can trust.”

Councillor Iain McIntosh, Reform's second candidate said the polls had suggested they may win two seats but their target was three.

He said the response on the doorstep has been a lot better than the polls suggest and they are hoping there are lots of supporters reticent to show their reform colours that will have voted for them.

Powys Councillor Beverley Baynham is standing as an Independent candidate in the new Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd Constituency for the Senedd Elections.

She said she was quite relaxed.

“I am under no illusion of how difficult it is to get elected as an independent candidate but I wanted to offer people an alternative to the usual parties.

“The constituency is so large I have concentrated on the north of it. People have been very supportive in Presteigne, Knighton and Llandrindod Wells and have been pleased to see me stand as an independent.”