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2021 Welsh Assembly election results

	Winner	Labour Gain (23.4% majority)
	Constituency AM	Buffy Williams
	Top-up region AMs	2 Plaid Cymru, 2 Conservative
	Region	South Wales Central

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Rhondda results for Senedd Cymru / Welsh Parliament election, 2021

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
Buffy Williams	Lab	12,832	54.7%	+18.8
Leanne Wood	Pla	7,335	31.3%	-19.4
Thomas Parkhill	Con	1,490	6.4%	+4.1
Jackie Charlton	Lib	200	0.9%	+0.1

Share of top-up region votes: South Wales Central region

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	102,611	40.1%
Conservative Con	56,622	22.1%	2
Plaid Cymru PC	46,478	18.2%	2
Green Party Gre	14,478	5.7%
Liberal Democrats LD	11,821	4.6%
UK Independence Party UKIP	3,127	1.2%
Other Oth	20,700	8.1%

Elected regional members for South Wales Central region

	Party
Andrew RT Davies MS	Conservative Con
Joel James MS	Conservative Con
Rhys ab Owen MS	Plaid Cymru PC
Heledd Fychan MS	Plaid Cymru PC

Rhondda results for Welsh Assembly election, 2016

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
Leanne Wood	Pla	11,891	50.6%	+21.1
Leighton Andrews	Lab	8,432	35.9%	-27.3
Stephen John Clee	UKI	2,203	9.4%
Maria Helen Hill	Con	528	2.2%	-2.6
Patricia Matthews	Gre	259	1.1%
Rhys Taylor	Lib	173	0.7%	-1.7

Share of top-up region votes: South Wales Central region

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	78,366	33.9%
Plaid Cymru PC	48,357	20.9%	1
Conservative Con	42,185	18.3%	2
UK Independence Party UKIP	23,958	10.4%	1
Liberal Democrats LD	14,875	6.4%
Abo Abo	9,163	4.0%
Green Party Gre	7,949	3.4%
Other Oth	6,280	2.7%

Elected regional members for South Wales Central region

	Party
Neil McEvoy	Plaid Cymru PC
Andrew RT Davies	Conservative Con
David Melding	Conservative Con
Gareth Bennett	UK Independence Party UKIP

Rhondda results for Welsh Assembly election, 2011

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
Leighton Andrews	Lab	12,650	63.2%	+4.9
Sera Evans-Fear	PC	5,911	29.5%	+23.0
James Eric Jefferys	Con	969	4.8%	-0.3
George Summers	LD	497	2.5%	-27.6

Share of top-up region votes: South Wales Central region

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	10,919	54.6%
Plaid Cymru PC	4,906	24.5%	1
Conservative Con	861	4.3%	2
Socialist Labour Party SLA	746	3.7%
UK Independence Party UKIP	667	3.3%
Green Party Gre	502	2.5%
British National Party BNP	476	2.4%
Liberal Democrats LD	436	2.2%	1
Other Oth	483	2.4%

Elected regional members for South Wales Central region

	Party
Leanne Wood	Plaid Cymru PC
David Melding	Conservative Con
Andrew R.T. Davies	Conservative Con
Eluned Parrott	Liberal Democrats LD

Rhondda results for Welsh Assembly election, 2007

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share
L.R. Andrews	Lab	12,875	58.2%
J. Evans	LD	6,660	30.1%
K. Roberts	PC	1,441	6.5%
H.J. Parsons	Con	1,131	5.1%

Share of top-up region votes: South Wales Central region

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	11,692	52.9%
Plaid Cymru PC	5,576	25.2%	2
Conservative Con	1,006	4.6%	2
Liberal Democrats LD	964	4.4%
British National Party BNP	922	4.2%
UK Independence Party UKIP	584	2.6%
Green Party Gre	473	2.1%
Socialist Labour Party SLA	307	1.4%
Other Oth	580	2.6%

Elected regional members for South Wales Central region

	Party
Leanne Wood	Plaid Cymru PC
Chris Franks	Plaid Cymru PC
David Melding	Conservative Con
Andrew R. T. Davies	Conservative Con

Rhondda results for Welsh Assembly election, 2003

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share	Swing
L.R. Andrews	Lab	14,170	61.6%	+21.1
G.R. Davies	PC	6,216	27.0%	-21.7
J. Gregory	Ind	909	4.0%
V.K. Watkins	LD	680	3.0%	-1.7
K.T. Rajan	UKIP	524	2.3%
P.J. Williams	Con	504	2.2%	-0.6

Share of top-up region votes: South Wales Central region

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	74,369	41.1%
Conservative Con	33,404	18.5%	2
Plaid Cymru Pla	27,956	15.4%
Liberal Democrats LD	24,926	13.8%
UK Independence Party UKIP	6,920	3.8%
Green Party Gre	6,047	3.3%
Socialist Labour Party SLA	3,217	1.8%
Other Oth	4,208	2.3%

Elected regional members for South Wales Central region

	Party
Jonathan Morgan	Conservative Con
David Melding	Conservative Con

Rhondda results for Welsh Assembly election, 1999

Share of constituency votes

	Party	Votes	Share
G.R. Davies	PC	13,558	48.7%
W. David	Lab	11,273	40.5%
M. Williams	LD	1,303	4.7%
G. Summers	Ind	913	3.3%
P. Hobbins	Con	774	2.8%

Share of top-up region votes: South Wales Central region

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Labour Lab	79,564	36.9%
Plaid Cymru Pla	58,080	27.0%
Conservative Con	34,944	16.2%	2
Liberal Democrats LD	30,911	14.3%
Green Party Gre	5,336	2.5%
Socialist Labour Party SLA	2,822	1.3%
Other Oth	3,821	1.8%

Elected regional members for South Wales Central region

	Party
Jonathan Morgan	Conservative Con
David Melding	Conservative Con

Seat background for Rhondda constituency

Last four Constituency AMs

2021

Buffy Williams

Labour

2016

Leanne Wood

Plaid Cymru

2011

Leighton Andrews

Labour

2007

L.R. Andrews

Labour