Plaid Cymru’s Rhun ap Iorwerth voted first minister of Wales

Rhun ap Iorwerth has said he will seek to cooperate with all Senedd opposition parties and to press the UK government for extra powers. Photograph: Matthew Horwood/Getty Images

Rhun ap Iorwerth has been voted first minister of Wales after Plaid Cymru’s Senedd electoral victory ended 100 years of Labour hegemony and held off Reform UK.

Ap Iorwerth was confirmed after a plenary vote on Tuesday with the support of the 43 members of his party in the Senedd and the two Greens, while Welsh Labour and the sole Liberal Democrat in the Siambr, the debating chamber, abstained.