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The Wales Green Party (Welsh: Plaid Werdd Cymru) is an autonomous national party within the Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW) covering Wales. The Wales Green Party puts up candidates for council, Senedd, and UK Parliament seats. The party currently has two elected members of the Senedd (Welsh Parliament), and fourteen councillors. Since 2018, the Wales Green Party has been led by Anthony Slaughter, who is a member of the Senedd.
From the 1990s until the mid-2020s the party saw small successes including gaining its first elected Councillors on the Llanelli Borough Council in 1991, and gaining an elected MP, in the form of Cynog Dafis, on a joint ticket with Plaid Cymru from 1992 until 1997. Since the election of Zack Polanski as party-wide leader in 2025, the party's membership has increased, surpassing 8,000 members as of May 2026. As the Senedd Election approached in 2026, the party began to see a sharp increase in polls, even surpassing the Welsh Conservatives in some polls in the run up to the election. At the election, the party gained its first ever representation in the Senedd, with leader Anthony Slaughter gaining his seat in Caerdydd Penarth and Paul Rock gaining a seat in Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf.
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