The Welsh Conservatives lost over a third of their seats and their majority on Monmouthshire County Council.

[4] Ahead of the 2022 elections, eleven of the twenty-two councils in Wales were under no overall control with no single party holding more than half of the seats.

[5][6][7][8][9] The deadline for applications to vote by post was 19 April 2022, of which a request must have been put in writing.

[10][11] Elections were held for all councillors in all 22 local authorities, all of which were conducted under new boundaries.

Though Plaid Cymru lost a small amount of councillors, they consolidated and gained three councils.