Welsh Labour
UK Labour Party branch in Wales
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| 2024 | Lord Hanson of Flint was ennobled to the House of Lords. |
| 2024 | Labour won 27 seats in the general election in Wales. |
| July 24 2024 | Eluned Morgan is set to become leader of Welsh Labour, succeeding Vaughan Gething. |
| March 16 2024 | Vaughan Gething becomes leader of Welsh Labour, succeeding Mark Drakeford. |
| 2022 | Jo McIntyre succeeds Louise Magee as the General Secretary of Welsh Labour |
| 2021 | Welsh Labour won half the seats in the Senedd, equalling its best-ever result from 2003, and subsequently formed an agreement with Plaid Cymru on policy initiatives. |
| 2019 | Baroness Wilcox of Newport was ennobled to the House of Lords. |
| 2019 | Welsh Labour saw another decline, dropping to 15.3% in the European Parliament election. |
| 2019 | Labour achieved a poor election result by historic standards. |
| December 6 2018 | Mark Drakeford takes over leadership of Welsh Labour from Carwyn Jones. |
| April 21 2018 | Carolyn Harris became the deputy leader of Welsh Labour, taking office on this date and remaining incumbent as of the current reference date. |
| 2017 | Louise Magee becomes the General Secretary of Welsh Labour |
| 2017 | Labour reversed its previous decline, raising its vote share to 48.9 percent (its highest since 1997) and winning 28 of the 40 Welsh seats in Westminster. |
| May 6 2016 | Welsh Labour won 29 of 60 seats in the Assembly elections, securing a fifth term in government in a minority coalition with the Welsh Liberal Democrats. |
| 2015 | Lord Hain of Neath and Lord Murphy of Torfaen were ennobled to the House of Lords. |
| 2015 | Labour achieved its second lowest vote share in Wales during the post-World War II era. |
| 2014 | Labour topped the poll in the European Parliament election in Wales with a swing of 7.9 percentage points. |
| 2011 | Welsh Labour increased its vote share and seats, returning to a minority government configuration. |
| 2011 | Labour regained half the seats in the Welsh National Assembly. |
| 2010 | David Hagendyk takes over as the General Secretary of Welsh Labour |
| 2010 | Lord Touhig of Islwyn and Glansychan was ennobled to the House of Lords. |
| 2010 | Labour experienced its worst general election result in Wales in its history, with significant vote share losses in constituencies like Pontypridd. |
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