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In September 2021, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party announced an electoral pact which would see them fielding a joint slate of candidates in the 2022 Cardiff Council election in Cardiff, Wales. Neither party had sitting councillors: Plaid Cymru's councillors elected in 2017 had been either expelled or had quit the party^[1]. In the election, the two parties fielded a common slate of candidates, known as the Common Ground Alliance^[2]. Of the 70 Common Ground Alliance candidates, 46 were from Plaid Cymru with the remaining 24 from the Green Party ^[3]. The alliance's campaign was formally launched on 24 April 2022^[4].

In the election, Common Ground won 17% of votes across the city, coming third behind Labour and the Conservatives^[5]. This represents a 2.7% drop from Plaid Cymru's and the Green's previous election results in the 2017 Cardiff Council election. They won two seats, both in the Pentyrch and St Fagans ward^[6][7], while the Liberal Democrats returned 10 councillors on a smaller share of the vote^[5].

The Alliance's elected councillors are Andrea Gibson and Rhys Owain Livesey^[7].